Robert Baron hungerford
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THE MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES OF GREAT BRITAIN : CHARLES A STOTHARD
Arundel Castle, Aveline de Foix, Bere Ferrers, Blanche of the Tower, Branchepeth Church, British Museum, Canterbury Cathedral, Charles Alfred Stothard, Devon, Edmund Crouchback, Edward II, Edward III, Edward the Black Prince, effigies, Elizabeth of Suffolk, Harfleur, Hatfield Broadoak, Henry IV, Ingham Church, Joan “Beaufort”, Joan of Navarre, John Duke of Suffolk, John of Eltham, Lord Ligonier, Magna Carta, Michael Earl of Suffolk, Miles Stapleton, Monumental Effigies, Pontefract Castle, Ralph 2nd Earl of Westmorland, Ralph Earl of Westmorland, Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Richard II, Robert Baron hungerford, Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford, Salisbury Cathedral, Sir john Wingfield, Staindrop Church, Westminster Abbey, William Fitzalan, William of Windsor, Wingfield ChurchReblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Effigies of Ralph Neville 2nd Earl of Westmorland d.1491 and one of his wives. Branchepeth Church, Durham. These effigies, which were wooden, are now lost to us having since been destroyed by a disastrous fire in 1998. Made in very dark oak it was difficult to get good photos of…
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THE LOST PRIORY OF AMESBURY
Amesbury Abbey, Arthur Plantagenet, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Edmund Crouchback, Edward I, Edward IV, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Eleanor of Brittany, Eleanor of Castile, Eleanor of Provence, Fontevrault, Henry II, Henry III, Hexham, Isabel of Lancaster, John, John de Warenne, John Lord Wenlock, Margaret lady Hungerford, Mary of Woodstock, Plantagenets, Reformation, Richard I, Richard III, Robert Baron hungerford, ruins, StonehengeThe palatial 17thc mansion called Amesbury Abbey (now a private nursing home) stands in beautiful landscaped gardens near the curve of the Avon and on the edge of the Stonehenge World Heritage Landscape. The original monastic building from which it takes its name, the Fontrevraudine Priory of Amesbury, is long gone, a victim of Henry…