Church Misericords and Bench Ends by Richard Hayman

Church Misericords and Bench Ends by Richard Hayman

Author:Richard Hayman [Hayman, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Church Misericords and Bench Ends
ISBN: 9780747811831
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2011-10-02T23:00:00+00:00


This misericord supporter at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, shows death coming to the labourer, part of the only surviving dance of death sequence on a British misericord.

The dance of death featured on misericords at Coventry Cathedral, which were destroyed in 1940. It can still be seen on a misericord at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where death, in the form of a skeleton, leads away a wealthy man in the main carving. In the supporters he leads away a poor labourer digging in the field, and another man threshing corn. Death was the great leveller in medieval life.



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