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Sarah Morley monument - Gloucester Cathedral.

 

 

This monument by John Flaxman is to Sarah Morley (d1784) who died a few days after giving birth whilst travelling back to England from India. Both Sarah and her child were buried at sea.

  

 

Thomas Street - Worcester Cathedral

 

 

This memorial to Sir Thomas Street (d1696) is the work of the sculptor Joseph Wilton a founding member of the Royal Academy, and was made around 1774.

 

 

Warwick - Last Judgment after Michelangelo

Warwick - Last Judgment after Michelangelo

This "Doom" painting in St Mary's Warwick, is copy (1678), by Richard Bird, of Michelangelo's Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. The left hand side of the work has been restored but the right hand side left unrestored at present.

 

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