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FDA-A.525-2018

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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

Production

Person

Unknown (Artist)

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)
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