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Description: | Standing Madonna and child, with three panels beneath relating to Saint Edmund. The Madonna is set in a shaped moulding in the lower middle section of a large pointed window above the doorway, with the three panels in a row beneath. She is a simple, stylised figure standing with her hands by her sides palms outwards. The Christ figure is a small child dressed in a short robe. He too is standing and has his hands raised to rest in front of his mother's. He is in relief in front of her figure. The central panel beneath depicts Saint Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury, lying like an effigy on a tomb. He is shown in profile lying full length on a draped couch with his hands clasped in prayer on his chest. He is wearing a mitre and has a crosier by his side. Set into the top border of the panel is his crest, a shield with three suns on it. In the panel on the left is his bishop's mitre with lappets and with three crowns round it one above the other. There are two crossed keys behind. In the panel on the right is a shield with a crossed key and sword on it, a motto in a ribbon beneath, AGE PRO VIRIBUS, and an ecclesiastical hat above with six tassels in three rows on either side. | Subjects: | Sculpture | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Architect: Hughes, J. O´Hanlon | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=6989... | Go to resource |
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