Wood Carvings in English Churches: I. Stalls and Tabernacle Work. II. Bishop's Thrones and Chancel Chairs.Bond, Francis
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Wood Carvings in English Churches: I. Stalls and Tabernacle Work. II. Bishop's Thrones and Chancel Chairs.
Bond, Francis
Choir stalls; Church decoration and ornament; Wood-carving
[18] Illustrated in _Gothic Architecture in England_, 481.
[19] See _John O'Gaunt's Sketch Book_, vol. i.
[20] Here, as always, one has to recognise the technical and artistic
excellence of Mr Crossley's photography; he has even reproduced the
cobwebs.
[21] They are ascribed to the fourteenth century by Mr Octavius Morgan in
_Monuments of Abergavenny Church_.
[22] My attention was directed to these arms by Mr W. H. St John Hope.
[23] Jones and Freeman's _St David's_, pp. 87 and 91.
[24] Illustrated in Dart's _Canterbury Cathedral_, 145 and 160.
[25] E. Mansel Sympson's _Lincoln_, 277.
[26] Illustrated in the writer's _Gothic Architecture in England_, p. 269.
[27] A photograph of the north range of the Chester stalls forms the
frontispiece of the writer's _Misericords_.
[28] Mr C. H. Purday.
[29] Illustrated in Murray's _Welsh Cathedrals_, page 267.
[30] Illustrated in the writer's _Fonts and Font Covers_, 296.
[31] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, ii. 105. Drawings by Mr J.
B. Fulton appeared in the _Builder_, 1st Oct. 1898 and 2nd Dec. 1893; and
by Mr A. S. Robertson in the _Builders' Journal_, 14th Jan. 1903.
[32] Macgibbon and Ross. _Castellated and Domestic Architecture of
Scotland_, v. 543; and _Builder_, lxxv. 293, in which are measured drawings
by Mr J. B. Fulton.
[33] _Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries_, i. 112.
[34] For information relating to the Windsor stalls I am indebted to Mr W.
H. St John Hope: see his paper "On a remarkable series of Wooden Busts
surmounting the stall-canopies in St George's chapel, Windsor," in
_Archæologia_, liv. 115, and the building accounts to be published in his
forthcoming work on _Windsor Castle_.
[35] See the writer's _Westminster Abbey_, 146.
[36] _Sacristy_, i. 266.
[37] The Hampton Court busts are by Giovanni de Majano, who in 1521
demanded payment for ten "medallions of terra cotta." They cost £2. 6s. 8d.
each. R. Blomfield's _History of Renaissance Architecture in England_, 3.
[38] Illustrated in the writer's _Westminster Abbey_, 197.
[39] See also the illustration of the chair made _c._ 1545 for Dorothy
Mainwaring, page 123.
[40] See Willis and Clark, i. 516-522.
[41] Gotch's _Early English Renaissance_, 29, 254.
[42] _Annales Caermoclenses_, by James Stockdale; Ulverston, 1872, p. 76.
[43] _Early Renaissance Architecture in England_, 38.
[44] _Annals of St Paul's_, 447.
[45] Measured drawings of the stalls of St Paul's by Mr C. W. Baker
appeared in the _Building News_, 1891, pages 108 and 358.
[46] The Renaissance woodwork ousted from Worcester cathedral by Sir
Gilbert Scott found a resting-place in the church of Sutton Coldfield (R.
A. D.).
[47] Willis' _Canterbury Cathedral_, 107.
[48] These are illustrated in _Archæologia Cantiana_, vol. xiii.
[49] _York Fabric Rolls_, 35, 248.
[50] Canon Savage's pamphlet, 369.
[51] Cutts' _Parish Priests_, 466.
[52] Gasquet's _Parish Life in Mediæval England_, 96.
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