These 15th century wooden apostles are part of the roof corbels at Dunstable Priory. Each figure holds a shield which would have identified them, unfortunately this information seems to have been lost over the centuries.
Index of Gothic Sculpture
Effigy of priest (c1450) wearing vestments for saying mass.
This monument of an alabaster knight wearing Milanese armour is dedicated to Robert Lord Hungerford (d1464).
Bishop Ferry de Beauvoir (d1473). Amiens Cathedral France.
This carved alabaster monument of Bishop John Stanbury contains his effigy and has saints and angels as mourners carrying shields around all sides. Unfortunately the heads of the angels were chipped off during the reformation.
Late Gothic staircase by Guillaume Pontis in 1480, under the direction of cardinal and archbishop William Estouteville. Rouen Cathedral.
Polychrome reliefs retelling the legend of St Firmin a disciple of St Saturninus of Toulouse, founded the first church in Amiens in the third century.
Lord John Cheney (d1499) was a Lancastrian supporter who in 1483 had supported the Duke of Buckingham's rebellion against Richard III. When Buckingham's rebellion failed he joined Henry Tudor in Brittany and returned with him from France in 1485.
This group of eleven relief panels form part of the carved vault decoration of a sacristy bay at the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud. Executed in a soft, chalky limestone typical of the Loire region, the panels combine biblical narrative scenes with hagiographic episodes from the Life of St Nicholas and include one figure of architectural patronage.
This chantry chapel to Arthur Tudor, covered in tracery and sculptures, was built in 1504. The chest tomb of the 15 year old Prince fills the chapel.