Stiffleaf's photos

landwade tomb 1620

landwade tomb 1620

17 Oct 2009 317
Sir John Cotton 1620[actually there are at least 4 Sir John Cottons buried here!]
landwade tomb 1593

landwade tomb 1593

17 Oct 2009 383
nice strapwork achievement on this Elizabethan tomb, Sir John Cotton [who else!] d.1593
landwade tomb 1593

landwade tomb 1593

17 Oct 2009 295
Sir John Cotton 1593
landwade corbel 1450

landwade corbel 1450

17 Oct 2009 298
great headdress on this chancel corbel of a queen, c15
landwade corbel 1450

landwade corbel 1450

17 Oct 2009 281
chancel corbel of a king; others are of a queen, a bishop and a priest
landwade transept

landwade transept

17 Oct 2009 341
view to the north transept from the south, with the Cotton tomb of 1593 and Cotton hatchments of the C18th
landwade church, cambs interior 1450

landwade church, cambs interior 1450

17 Oct 2009 223
This church has still most of its original fittings and remains undamaged by restoration.
landwade exterior c1450

landwade exterior c1450

17 Oct 2009 278
You'll have to brave the signs saying private road to find this church in its bucolic setting next to a moat. A heron flapped lazily away over the cattle as we arrived. A gem.
clavering tracery light angel

clavering tracery light angel

11 Oct 2009 211
One of the order of seraphim: note 3 sets of wings, one to fly with, one to cover their bodies and one to screen their eyes from the effulgence of the boss. The angel is also provided with a wheel just in case of flight failure.
clavering glass

clavering glass

11 Oct 2009 205
Philosophers argue with Catherine
clavering angel

clavering angel

11 Oct 2009 200
Tracery light angel of the order of thrones, dressed in peacock feathers
clavering catherine

clavering catherine

11 Oct 2009 203
St.Catherine refuses to marry the emperor Maxentius and is bunged in the nick prior to destroying the wheel of torture only to get beheaded in the end.
clavering god

clavering god

11 Oct 2009 218
The souls of the immolated philosophers ascend to god as birds
clavering badguy

clavering badguy

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One of Maxentius' torturers stokes the bonfire of unsuccessful philosophers
clavering angels

clavering angels

11 Oct 2009 196
The simplest of angels, "their service and ministry is limited to one man"
clavering monument 1658

clavering monument 1658

11 Oct 2009 235
Living offspring outnumbered by the dead on this tomb's predella
clavering monument 1658

clavering monument 1658

11 Oct 2009 208
Mary Barley
clavering church, essex, c17 tombs by marshall

clavering church, essex, c17 tombs by marshall

11 Oct 2009 198
Margaret and Mary Barley, d.1653 and 1658 , both married to the same man, Haynes Barley, prob. carved by one of the Marshall family
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