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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Elizabeth (Devereux) his wife], c. 1440, altar-tomb with alabaster effigies (Plate 106) of man and wife, figure of man …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Minton tiles, while the sanctuary is of stone inlaid with alabaster. A Lady chapel was formed in 1960. 48 The west end …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to later English, and contains a beautiful monument in alabaster, with the effigies of a knight and his lady; and …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… suppose. In the north side of the chancel, on a plain flat alabaster tomb, underbuilt with ordinary stone,Here lyeth Ser …
A History of the County of Stafford
… factory at the south end of Wellington Road in 1964. 1 ALABASTER CARVING From the 12th and 13th centuries there is evidence for the extraction of alabaster near Burton at Hanbury and Tutbury, where there were gypsum mines, 2 but the earliest evidence for alabaster carving in the town itself may be the two painters …
A History of the County of Stafford
… an oak altar and a brass altar cross; a reredos in alabaster and green marble, with carved panels showing Christ … south wall of the churchyard into the south porch. 16 An alabaster figure of a knight, datable to either the late 15th … and some glass were retained from the old building. 7 An alabaster and mosaic reredos was inserted in 1887, a clock …
A History of the County of Stafford
… late 15th century had replaced Nottingham as a centre for alabaster carving. 5 Burton generally ranked with middling … other, lighter woollen textiles. Burton was also noted for alabaster carving, principally for church monuments: John Leland noted the 'many marbelers working in alabaster' in the town in the mid 16th century. 8 The …
A History of the County of Stafford
… x. 283. Cath. Rec. Soc. lxi. 220, 222; above, econ. hist. (alabaster carving). Staffs. Cath. Hist. v. 25; xxii. 6. Ibid. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… chancel, oval black-marble tablet in scrolled surround of alabaster, with Latin epitaph and shields of arms for Russell …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… sale of many beautiful ornaments in marble, fluor-spar, alabaster, and other mineral productions of the Peak; and a …