FDA-A.525-2018
Parts
FDA-A.525-2018
Identification
Richard Grey, Lord Grey de Wilton, 1521
assigned by cataloguer
Original slab located on floor of Ante-Chapel
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.
height (effigy): 509mm
width (effigy): 172mm
height (inscription): 181mm
width (inscription): 539mm
width (effigy): 172mm
height (inscription): 181mm
width (inscription): 539mm
Production
Unknown (Artist)
1521
History and association
The original slab also included a shield of arms in each corner; all are lost.
• 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)