The records of St. Bartholomew's priory and of the church and parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield (1921) (14760013321)

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Title: The records of St. Bartholomew's priory and of the church and parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Webb, E. A. (Edward Alfred)
Subjects: St. Bartholomew's Priory (London, England) St. Bartholomew-the-Great (Church : London, England)
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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ing figures, the angel, the tassels of the cushion, andthe lettering of the books, Mr. Prior says are all characteristic ofthat time. Moreover, the two stole-like appendages to the almuceonly came into fashion early in the fifteenth century. The colouron the effigies and on the shields is in a fairly good state of preserva-tion, but its date cannot be fixed accurately. Stow, writing in 1598,did not describe the tomb ; neither did he in 1603; but his successorStrype in his extension in the year 1720 says both the monument andthe effigies are lately in a reparation of the church refreshed andbeautified . In 1751 a receipted bill in the church says the monu-ment was painted at an expenditure of 305. In 1815 and in 1867the monument was restored, but repainting the figures or shields isnot specified. In 1893, however, a man between seventy and eightyyears of age came into the church to see the figure and said he had 1 Above, p. 52. 2 Vulgate, li. 3 lb. xxxv. 4 Vetusta Mon. ii, 2. PLA1 E l\
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RAHtRE FROM HIS lOMB IN br BARTHOLOMEW THE GRfAT. rHE Mon \-Tic Habitsee pp. -7(\ 7T, 7- THE MONUMENT 73 painted it many years before.1 This would indicate about the dateof the restoration of the monument in 1867. The tomb occupies the three western bays of a gothic arcade whichoriginally consisted of six bays (pi. VI a, p. 78). It formed the north sideof the presbytery when the apse was converted, about the year 1405,into a square east end. There was a priests door in the two easternbays2 of the arcade, which was removed when the apse was restoredagain in 1867. The third bay is a blank panel. The three westernbays which contain Raheres tomb consist in the upper half of threearched canopies which are richly crocketed and terminate in foliatedfinials in the cornice. Between these are pinnacles which also runup into the cornice, where they terminate in a small figure. Theyare shown in Carters drawing in Vetusta Monumenta, in 1784, asrunning up two-thirds of the way only to the cornice a