journey from outside the church to the sacred atmosphere inside it.

The use of stone sculpture on the outside of churches was first widely seen in the eleventh century. The later utilisation of these mouldings and sculptures is depicted by Calvin Kendall, "[Church Portals] concerned themselves with the spiritual well-being of worshippers, and they served to create and delineate sacred space." The use of portals and the mouldings on their archivolts as a separation between the outside public domain and