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BTW In Winchester Cathedral, on the effigy of Bishop Eddington (d 1366) the collar and edges of his cope are decorated with the right-hand version.
Causes some astonishment when I point it out to visitors.

There are many images of the swastika, in Britain alone, used by the Church as a symbol of protection. It's found on a few church bells, where it was meant as a protection against lightning strikes. (idea nicked from Scandinavian heathens, where the symbol was on Thor's hammer in his manifestation of a storm thru the heavens) There's a virtual copy of Ilkley's Swastika stone carved on a deity at the church in Sutton, Bedfordshire, said to be medieval (though it looks a bit later to me). They're all over the place! Even St. Bridget nicked it as her symbol. Check the carved monolith at St. Bridget's Fountain, Ireland, with a swastika atop of the cross... which, incidentally, evolved out of the swastika itself.