IMAGES OF MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

ENGLAND- WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL

Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Saints Peter and Paul, and Saint Swithin

Sculptural Fragments

Many fragemtnts of sculpture are displayed at Winchester Cathedral. Many of them were the product of the desturction of ecclesiastic images during the English Civil War. Here are a few of them:
 
 
 


From Prior and Gardiner, p 317

Figure of Ecclesia?
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Figure of Ecclesia?
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From Prior and Gardiner, p. 361

Madonna and Child
Fourteenth Century
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From Prior and Gardiner, p. 346
Ecclesiastical Figure?
Fourteenth Century
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Heads
For Dates and Possible locations for these heads, see Lindsey, "Medieval Sculpture..."

From Prior and Gardiner, p. 360

Head of Christ with 
Crown of Thorns
Fourteenth Century
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From Prior and Gardiner, p. 403 
 

Head of a Bishop
Fifeenth Century
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From Prior and Gardiner, p.  403

Head of  God the Father?
Fifteenth Century
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Preliminary Bibliography

Atkinson, T.D. "Medieval Figure Sculpture in Winchester Cathedral," Archeologia 85 (1936).
Lindley, Phillip, "Figure Sculpture at Winchester Cathedral in the Fifteenthh Century: A new Chronology" In England in the Fifteenth Century, Ed.D. Williams (Woodbridge, 1987).
Lindley, Phillip, "The Medieval Sculpture of Winchester Cathedral" In Winchester Cathedral, Ed. John Crook,  p. 97-122
Stone, L.   Sculpture in Britain, the Middle Ages (Harmondsworth, 1972) 



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