Vol 39 Abstracts

SALLY BADHAM

Hidden in plain sight: a medieval verminous carved cadaver effigy at Uttoxeter (Staffordshire)

 Successive rebuilds of St Mary’s Church, Uttoxeter (Staffordshire), have caused disruption to the monuments there of the Kynnersley and Mynors families. Hidden inside the tomb chest commemorating Elizabeth Kynnersley (d. 1523) in the tower is a carved cadaver effigy. Antiquarian evidence demonstrates that it has previously been peripatetic within the church. Only glimpses of it can now been seen where the chest is open at the back. Photogrammetry, however, has enabled it to be examined in detail for the first time. It is a desiccated verminous male figure with various carved bones on one side. Comparisons with other church art indicate that it is depicted in a churchyard setting. Such iconography cannot be paralleled on other known transi effigies. It may have formed the lower element of a double-decker tomb monument. Whom it commemorates is unclear.

NICHOLAS RIALL

Sir William Sharington’s funeral monument in St Cyriac’s Church, Lacock (Wiltshire): a final work by John Chapman (fl. 1541–66)?

Sir William Sharington (c.1495–1553) was one of a small group of aristocrats and courtiers who introduced a taste for the classical into their buildings. His funerary monument at St Cyriac’s Church, Lacock (Wiltshire), with its profusion of classical elements, is exceptional even in a county where several funeral monuments stand apart from the norm. This paper, which forms the final part of a trilogy of articles on Lacock Abbey and William Sharington, describes his monument in detail, exploring its exposition of classical and pan‑European decorative arts. The monument can be linked to the Chapmans, an important family of craftsmen in the mid sixteenth century.

RICHARD WEST

 The Horner Chapel, St Mary’s Church, Cloford (Somerset):

The monuments to Maurice Horner (d. 1622), and to Sir George Horner (d. 1677) and Lady Anne Horner (d. 1678)

 A recent conservation of the Horner Chapel in St Mary’s Church, Cloford (Somerset), and the two memorials which reside inside preserves them for future generations and has prompted research into their history and that of the family who commissioned them. This article will document the history of the Horner family and explore why monuments were erected in the family’s subsidiary church. Fuller details of the conservation, particularly the light thrown on contemporary polychromy techniques, are documented in Appendix B.

 DAVID WILSON

 Lorenzo Bartolini’s early nineteenth-century funerary monuments in British churches and to British subjects who died overseas

 The Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini (1777–1850), who counted a large number of British patrons among his clientele after 1814, is documented as sculptor of four funerary monuments to British subjects, three of which have been studied by earlier scholars. In addition to those monuments, Bartolini must now be firmly credited with an especially poignant monument in an English church (made to the order of particularly important patrons of the sculptor), and he should be recognised as the sculptor of a monument in Malta to a British naval officer, one of whose orders had personal consequences for Napoleon in 1815. Drawing on published sources hitherto unknown to Bartolini scholars, and unpublished archival material in Italy and in Britain, this article surveys Bartolini’s monuments to British subjects. It compares them to other monuments by the sculptor, while examining how Bartolini’s quest for naturalism in his figures and their poses was sometimes tempered by the classical formats of his monuments.