Stiffleaf's photos
stansted mountfitchet font
stansted mountfitchet capital c.1200
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Nice proto-stiffleaf trefoils allied to volutes with Ionic ancesters decorate the capitals on the arch from the chancel to the first north chapel.
stansted capital c.1200
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still Norman enough to have a square abacus, but sprouting proto E.E. foliage.somewhat akin to that in st.frideswide's oxford
stansted tomb 1614
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An escutcheon from the Salusbury tomb showing the arms [literally!] of the passion, unusual for such a date. Poss. by the egregious Epiphanius Evesham
stansted tomb 1614
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Hester Salusbury was the daughter of Sir Thomas Middleton, so her parents lie near her and are shown on their own tomb in the chancel
stansted tomb 1614
stansted tomb 1614
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Salusbury tomb by "that most exquisite artist" , he of the memorably euphonious nomenclature , Epiphanius Evesham, 1570->1633, who picked up a mannerist intensity of feeling working in France for about 15 years.
stansted tomb 1614
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The Salusbury tomb is probably incomplete; an escutcheon of the arma christi from it is on a nearby wall
stansted tomb1631
stansted tomb 1631
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An angel from the Middleton tomb; a change from the more secular virtues or liberal arts that people most swagger tombs of the time
stansted C13th head
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Female head stop in chancel showing mid C13th fashion in hats, head may be carved in clunch, a type of easily cut chalk
stansted C13th head
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Male head acts as an internal drip mould stop from E.E. chancel wall arcades which contained the windows
stansted knight
stansted lion on c14 tomb
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stansted mountfitchet essex c14 tomb knight effigy…
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stansted mountfitchet glass warrington1859
highgate cemetery, london
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