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Description: | The tomb of William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester 1366-1404, outside the chantry dedicated to him. We have a slightly earlier description of the tomb by Richard Cockle Lucas, who was proposing a restoration of both chantry and tomb. "The tomb itself is placed on a slab of Purbeck marble, seven feet in length, by three in breadth, and is, with the body of the founder, and the monks at the feet, formed of alabaster, the head and hands of the statue being in marble. The angels placed at his head (in accordance with the practice of the time) have been entirely destroyed, and since evidently restored, from the inferiority of heir work, and their [sic] being in plaster compositionÂ…. The shields painted on the tomb are entirely wrong, both in design and treatmentÂ…."
The print, published 14 February 1861, is numbered 1114.
Reference:
Lucas, R C. 1847. Observations on the Chantry and Tomb of William of Wykeham in Winchester Cathedral, p. 7. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | tomb Winchester Cathedral William of Wykeham cathedral chantry tomb-chest | Temporal: | start=1861-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Rock and Company | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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