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2 unusual facts about Alabaster


Holden VH Commodore

The SS sedans were initially exclusively Maranello Red in color, but were later also made available in Alabaster White.

W49AY

WAY TV is relayed on W15AZ, a low-powered relay on channel 15 in Alabaster, Alabama.


All Saints Church, Claverley

The monument to Sir Robert Broke, who died in 1558, and his two wives is in alabaster with three recumbent effigies on a tomb-chest, and children standing around the sides.

Anna Vasa of Sweden

He built a beautiful black Dębnik marble tomb monument with a white alabaster figure of his beloved aunt.

Berneval

He is known to have visited England, buying alabaster from Thomas Prentys in Chellaston, Derbyshire.

Blore

Blore Hall was the home of the Bassett family, (from whom the Queen is descended) ; William Bassett, the last of the male line, died in 1601 and his magnificent alabaster tomb, erected by his wife about 1630, can be seen in the church.

Chaloner Grenville Alabaster

Sir C. Grenville Alabaster, Attorney General of Hong Kong (and son of Sir Chaloner Alabaster)

Elaine Rapp

The exhibit, held in January 1967 at New York’s Bodley Gallery, featured twenty-six of Rapp’s sculptures, in marble, limestone, alabaster, and other stones, all of them hand-carved with hammer and chisel.

Helena, Alabama

It is also one of three cities, along with Alabaster and Pelham, that make up the area known as "North Shelby" or "North Shelby County".

Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford

On the north side is the alabaster and marble tomb of Sir William Cordell who was the first Patron of the Church after the dissolution of the Abbey of Bury St Edmund's in 1539.

Martin Alabaster

Alabaster took up his first sea appointment as the Weapons Section Officer in HMS Bristol.

Martley


The church also contains some medieval wall paintings and an alabaster effigy of Sir Hugh Mortimer, Lord of Kyre & Martley, killed in battle at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460.

Pena National Palace

Nonetheless, the chapel (and its magnificent works of marble and alabaster attributed to Nicolau Chanterene) escaped without significant damage.

Sheffield Cathedral

On the south wall of the Shrewsbury Chapel is the alabaster monument to the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury with its architectural surround, armoured effigy, and Latin inscription.

South Cockerington

Inside there is a 15th-century font, and an alabaster monument to Sir Adrian Scrope who died in 1623, attributed to Epiphanius Evesham.

St Bartholomew's Church, Armley

The pulpit is of alabaster and marble, copied from that at the shrine of Sebaldus in St. Sebaldus Church, Nuremberg.

St Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch

The Hastings Chapel contains a number of fine monuments including an alabaster tomb to Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon who died in 1561.

St Jude's Church, Kensington

The chancel has several interesting features: the reredos is alabaster, with mosaics by Antonio Salviati, and sculpted figures of St Jude, St Peter, and St Augustine.

The Bacchanal of the Andrians

The painting is now held at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, but it was commissioned by Alfonso I d'Este for his Camerini d'alabastro ('chambers of alabaster') in Ferrara.


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