FDA-A.525-2018
Parts
Object number
FDA-A.525-2018
Object type
Identification
Title
Richard Grey, Lord Grey de Wilton, 1521
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Original slab located on floor of Ante-Chapel
Description
Content (description)
Knight in Tudor armour, standing on a mound of grass, with head and hands bare, and hair straight and long: he wears mail-gorget, pauldrons of three pieces with projecting edges, coutes, globular cuirass, skirt of four taces each divided into several oblong pieces, two tuilles with vandyked edges in front, and two at sides extending below a very short mail-skirt, sabbatons, sword and misericorde.
Dimensions
height (effigy): 509mm
width (effigy): 172mm
height (inscription): 181mm
width (inscription): 539mm
width (effigy): 172mm
height (inscription): 181mm
width (inscription): 539mm
Production
Date
1521
History and association
Object history note
The original slab also included a shield of arms in each corner; all are lost.
References
• Lack, W., Stuchfield, H. Martin and Whittemore, P., The Monumental Brasses of Buckinghamshire, London: Monumental Brass Society, 1994 (p. 81, no. VI)
• Harwood, T. Eustace, The Monumental Brasses, Past and Present, in Eton College Chapel, in Oxford Journal of Monumental Brasses, Vol. II, No. 1, February 1900 (pp. 22-23)
• Harwood, T. Eustace, The Monumental Brasses, Past and Present, in Eton College Chapel, in Oxford Journal of Monumental Brasses, Vol. II, No. 1, February 1900 (pp. 22-23)
