That single detail, recorded in 1906, is more or less all that can be said with certainty. The figure is believed to be an effigy from an effigial tomb, a type of medieval monument in which a sculpted likeness of the deceased, usually a knight, cleric, or noble, was laid atop or incorporated into a stone tomb chest. Such effigies were markers of status and memory, intended to preserve the identity of the person they depicted across generations. This one has not cooperated.

The observation comes from Commins, writing in 1906, who found the carved figure present but entirely without inscription, heraldic device, or any other attribute that might anchor it to a name or a date. Whether the identifying details were once there and have since weathered away, or whether the figure was always anonymous, is not recorded. What remains is a carved human form on the south wall, which is itself a small puzzle, since effigies were more commonly placed inside a church than on its exterior face.