There are two possible sources of the loose sculpture nearby. One is the 12thc church of St Swithin, still standing; the other is the site of the Preceptory of the Knights Hospitaller, on which Quenington Court now stands. In the mid-12thc Agnes de Lacy and her daughter Sibyl granted Quenington manor to the Knights Hospitallers, who built the Preceptory in c. 1193 (VCH vol. 7).