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Description: | The illustration is from Edward Blore. 1826. Monumental Remains of Noble and Eminent Persons. William of Wykeham (1367-1404) was the most celebrated of the builders of Winchester Cathedral, being responsible for most of the nave. He also founded Magdalen College, Oxford and Winchester College. Wykeham bequeathed a chantry to the cathedral, and both this and his tomb had been constructed by the time he made his will. He was buried here on 27 September 1404.
The tomb-chest is a product of a London workshop: the same which supplied the effigy of Archbishop Courtenay at Canterbury. The bishop has his feet against three bedesmen, with two angels at his head. The empty gabled niches were filled between 1894 and 1897 by paintings of Wykeham's coat of arms.
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Lindley, Philip, The medieval sculpture of Winchester Cathedral, in John Crook (ed). 1993. Winchester Cathedral: nine hundred years, p. 109. | 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: | sculpture tomb Winchester Cathedral William of Wykeham Wykeham Chantry monument Bishop of Winchester tomb-chest | Temporal: | start=1825-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Edward Blore; Henry Le Keux, Harding and Leard | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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