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stansted mountfitchet capital c.1200

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:56:13 +0000

Nice proto-stiffleaf trefoils allied to volutes with Ionic ancesters decorate the capitals on the arch from the chancel to the first north chapel.

stansted lion on c14 tomb

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:54:35 +0000

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stansted knight

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:54:43 +0000

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effigy from chantry chapel c.1300

stansted tomb 1631

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:55:03 +0000

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An angel from the Middleton tomb; a change from the more secular virtues or liberal arts that people most swagger tombs of the time

stansted tomb 1614

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:55:49 +0000

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Hester Salusbury was the daughter of Sir Thomas Middleton, so her parents lie near her and are shown on their own tomb in the chancel

stansted C13th head

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:54:52 +0000

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Female head stop in chancel showing mid C13th fashion in hats, head may be carved in clunch, a type of easily cut chalk

stansted tomb 1614

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:55:55 +0000

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An escutcheon from the Salusbury tomb showing the arms [literally!] of the passion, unusual for such a date. Poss. by the egregious Epiphanius Evesham

stansted capital c.1200

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:56:04 +0000

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still Norman enough to have a square abacus, but sprouting proto E.E. foliage.somewhat akin to that in st.frideswide's oxford

stansted mountfitchet font

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:56:22 +0000

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font C12th, cover C.17th

stansted mountfitchet

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:56:40 +0000

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One of two enormous Norman doorways to the nave, early enough to show chip carving done with an axe rather than hammer and chisel work

stansted mountfitchet. font c12

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:56:29 +0000

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Hefty font like some brobdignagian capital

stansted tomb 1614

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:55:40 +0000

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Hester Salusbury in her best lace and hat looking very happy with herself

stansted tomb 1614

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:55:31 +0000

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Salusbury tomb by "that most exquisite artist" , he of the memorably euphonious nomenclature , Epiphanius Evesham, 1570->1633, who picked up a mannerist intensity of feeling working in France for about 15 years.

stansted tomb 1614

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:55:22 +0000

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The Salusbury tomb is probably incomplete; an escutcheon of the arma christi from it is on a nearby wall

stansted tomb1631

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:55:12 +0000

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Lord mayor Sir Thomas Middleton d.1631 and wife, parents of Hester Salusbury

stansted C13th head

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:54:47 +0000

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Male head acts as an internal drip mould stop from E.E. chancel wall arcades which contained the windows

stansted mountfitchet essex c14 tomb knight effigy c.1300

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:54:25 +0000

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stansted mountfitchet glass warrington1859

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:54:17 +0000

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Warrington 1859 good samaritan