This finely carved effigy represents a 13th-century bishop, shown lying in state with hands raised in prayer. The figure is sculpted from dark Purbeck marble, a material much used in English cathedrals of the period. The bishop is depicted wearing liturgical vestments, including the mitre and chasuble, and rests beneath an elaborately canopied tomb.
This carved alabaster monument of Bishop John Stanbury contains his effigy and has saints and angels as mourners carrying shields around all sides. Unfortunately the heads of the angels were chipped off during the reformation.
Monument to Bishop Joseph Allen (1845).
Recumbent alabaster effigy of Bishop Heton (1609).
Semi reclining effigy of Bishop Peter Gunning (d1684).
This tomb in the South choir contains the effigy of Bishop Richard Mayew (d1516) under an elaborate canopy, and with weepers around the base. The weepers are thought to represent saints and were damaged during the reformation.
Purbeck marble effigy of Bishop Thomas de Cobham (d1327). Worcester Cathedral.
This mid 13th century tomb of Bishop Walter de Cantelupe (d1266) is made of Purbeck marble. The relief of the effigy is more rounded than that of the nearby tomb of his predecessor the bishop of Worcester William de Blois (d1236) which is still in the Romanesque style and shows the development to the more rounded forms of the early Gothic.
This much mutilated, Purbeck marble, effigy is of Bishop Walter de la Wyle at Salisbury Cathedral.
Bishop of Worcester 1218-1236. The effigy on the tomb is in the Romanesque style and lacks the detailed modelling that would become the hallmark of Gothic sculpture.
