Friday, 26 January 2018

Fantastical memorials




There's great pleasure to be had in fantastical tombs -- there was quite a fashion for them in the seventeenth century.  Above we see the Howard memorial in Rudbaxton Church; then in the middle the Lort tomb in Stackpole Elidor Church;  and then below we see the Margaret Mercer tomb in St Mary's Church, Tenby.

The Howard tomb takes the prize for having the most skulls, and the Lort tomb takes the prize for having the most children.......









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