Identifier: devoncornwallnot112amer_0 (find matches)
Title: Devon & Cornwall notes & queries
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Amery, John S
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Publisher: Exeter, England : J.G. Commin
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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y is in the same position, thatis No. 1, which was then as now in the Deans stall. Itneed not be inferred that any particular injury was causedby the re-arrangement, for the old system seems to havebeen as heterogeneous as the new. The reason no doubtwas that the stalls are not all the same size. Puttingaside the four end stalls, which are some inches wider than therest, the width varies from 2 feet 3^ inches to 2 feet 5 inches,so the misericords had to be put where they fitted best.The average width of the misericords is 2 feet 2 inches, thearms of the stalls are about i\ inches thick. Stiff Leaf, with head of Bishop (No. 47). Mr. Hewetts list shows that before 1870 the misericordNo. 47, was in the Precentors stall on the north side of the * Twenty Examples selected from the Misereres in the Choir ofthe Cathedral of St. Peter, Exeter, from the original drawings of theRev. John William Hewett, B.A., 1849. (Publisher, Allever Butler,Shoreham.) 8 Stiff Leaf, with head of Bishop. No. 47.
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Effigy of Bishop Bartholomew. Plate I. THE MISERICORDS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL. choir. This carving is of different character from all the rest,and seems to demand special prominence, so it must havebeen the matter of dimension which led to its being oustedfrom its former position. It would appear that at therestoration the stall was made about four inches widerthan before, and the misericord was then too narrow tofill it. This is much to be regretted, for the large pieceof carving which is there now is uninteresting in design,and inferior to the rest in execution. Messrs Howard and Crossley in English Church Wood-work (p. 15) remark that the Exeter misericords wereprobably cut by stone masons. No. 47 bears this out,for the design is very similar to that on the beautifulPurbeck marble tomb of Bishop Marshall, on the northside of the choir, under the screen. He died in 1206. The tomb displays figures and heads, enclosed inquatrefoils, with Early English foliation round; themisericord has s

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