The Journal Volume XX
- 2005
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A wide-ranging volume with articles on monuments in Italy, Portugal and New Zealand as well as England. It is a great pleasure to be able to publish two successful entries from the 2023 Essay Competition. Teresa Soley writes on the retrospective tombs of the founders of the convent of Santa Clara in Vila do Conde, Portugal. Keith dowen examines the tomb of Sir John Marmion in West Tanfield, with its rare survival of a medieval hearse and an unusual pendant on the livery collar.
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Elizabeth FREEMAN
The thirteenth-century Avvocati funerary monument in the cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, Como (Lombardy), Italy, and the office of the bishop
Keith DOWEN
‘Of Armed Alabaster’: The Effigy and Funeral Hearse of Sir John Marmion (d. 1387)
at West Tanfield (North Yorkshire)
Teresa SOLEY
The founders’ new tombs (1526) in the convent of Santa Clara, Vila do Conde, Portugal
Jean L. WILSON
Not a leg to stand on: the monument to Robert Pierrepont (d. 1669) in the Borbach Chantry at West Dean (Wiltshire)
Mark STOCKER
New Zealand’s recumbent effigy: the Bishop Harper memorial in ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch
