Tuesday, 5 September 2017
Not Screened Off
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Visiting St Etheldreda's, Hatfield, yesterday, I was delighted to find that the Salisbury Chapel in that fine church was not screened off but open to all. That made it possible to see (and photograph) from every angle this magnificent monument to the First Earl of Salisbury, with its superb statues of the Four Cardinal Virtues by Maximilian Colt, a Flemish sculptor who rose to become the King's Master Carver (the King being James I). Behind the statues and below the black marble slab on which the Earl lies in effigy is a skeleton, unadorned, on a rush mat. Memento mori.
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- Nige
- Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
They are wonderful
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful. What artistry.
ReplyDeleteYes indeed - and there are so many more wonders from this period standing unregarded in England's parish churches, as my forthcoming book will demonstrate. Well, I say forthcoming - give it a couple of years, maybe three...
ReplyDeleteI hope work is advancing on this...It would be a shame if you could not publish. Maybe you could publish an introductory version, with a select few of your favourites??
ReplyDeleteIt is advancing, never fear...
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