Romanesque font - All Saints, West Haddon
Discovered in 1887 this C12 square bowled font has carved scenes from the life of Crist on all four sides.
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Romanesque font - St Margaret Crick
This C12 font has a circular bowl with a bead decoration which is supported by three crouching Atlas figures supporting the red sandstone bowl.
Royal Portal - Chartres Cathedral
Since its construction in around 1150, the western portal of Chartres Cathedral, decorated with elongated late Romanesque style figures of the Kings and Queens of the Old Testament has been known as the Royal Portal.
Sacristy Vault Panels - Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud
This group of eleven relief panels form part of the carved vault decoration of a sacristy bay at the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud. Executed in a soft, chalky limestone typical of the Loire region, the panels combine biblical narrative scenes with hagiographic episodes from the Life of St Nicholas and include one figure of architectural patronage.
Sarah Baroness Braye Tomb - Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire
Tomb in memory of Sarah Baroness Braye (d1862) by Mary Thorneycroft ⓘ.
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.
Sleeping Children - Lichfield Cathdral
Sculpted from white marble by Sir Frances Chantrey, this memorial is to the two daughters of Ellen-Jane Robinson, Ellen-Jane and Marianne.
St. Firmin Polychrome Reliefs - Amiens Cathedral
Polychrome reliefs retelling the legend of St Firmin a disciple of St Saturninus of Toulouse, founded the first church in Amiens in the third century.
Story of Noah Spandrels - Bourges Cathedral
Decorated in about 1240 the spandrels ⓘ below the portal of St Stephen ⓘ at Bourges Cathedral contain sculpures depicting the story of Noah.
The Anglian Beast and Animal Friezes from Breedon-on-the-Hill
Striking animal reliefs, carved around 800 CE, are among the finest surviving examples of Anglo-Saxon sculpture from the Mercian kingdom. They were originally part of the 9th-century monastery at Breedon-on-the-Hill and are now set into the walls of the later Augustinian priory church of St Mary and St Hardulph.
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