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unusual facts about effigies



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.

Chad Mitchell Trio

"Alma Mater" ("We'll miss the classrooms/Where we learned/And effigies we burned") took on segregationist policies at the University of Mississippi, but was only a prelude to the later "Your Friendly, Liberal, Neighborhood Ku-Klux-Klan."

Cornelius a Lapide

An extract from the commentary on the Acts appeared in 1737 in Tyrnau, under the title: Effigies Sancti Pauli, sive idea vitæ apostolicæ.

Dalkeith

Sir James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton, and his wife Joanna, daughter of James I, are buried in the choir and have stone effigies.

Earl Landaff

In Llandaff Cathedral, nearby Radyr, there exist three 15th century and 16th century Mathew family effigies.

Elmley Castle

It contains grand monuments to Thomas, 1st Earl of Coventry and 17th century effigies of members of the Savage family.

Eye, Herefordshire

Eye has a historic small church with a square tower and some wonderful effigies; beside it is Eye Manor, noted for its fine decorated plaster ceilings.

Giles Daubeney, 6th Baron Daubeney

The brass effigies of Daubeney and his first wife Joan can be seen in the Church of St Peter and St Paul, in South Petherton, Somerset.

Henricus Hondius

Hendrik Hondius I (1573 –1650), born in Duffel, worked in The Hague, known for his Pictorum aliquot celebrium praecipue Germaniae Inferioris effigies, Hagae Comitis, 1610

Josias English

He was an intimate friend and a pupil of Francis Cleyn, the manager of the Mortlake Tapestry Works, and etched numerous plates in the style of Wenceslaus Hollar, after Cleyn's designs; these include a set of eleven plates, etched in 1653, entitled "Variæ Deorum Ethnicorum Effigies, or Divers Portraicturs of Heathen Gods", a set of four representing "The Seasons", a similar set of "The Four Cardinal Virtues", and a set of fourteen plates of grotesques and arabesques.

Old Shute House

He and his wife are depicted in life-size effigies under an ornate canopy supported on Corinthian columns in Colyton Church.

Passeio Público

The beautiful iron gate at the entrance of the park, in Rococo style, is still in its original place and carries the effigies of Queen Mary I of Portugal and the King consort, Pedro III, with the Latin inscription Maria Iª et Petrus III Brasiliae Regibus 1783.

Pons Sublicius

The pontiffs and the magistrates were carrying straw effigies of bound men, also called Argei, which the Vestals threw into the Tiber.

Really Red

They often shared the bill with other such pioneering acts as D.O.A., The Dicks, Circle Jerks, The Offenders, 999, The Lewd, Articles of Faith, Mydolls, SPK, Negative Approach, Sado Nation, MDC, Vex, Culturcide, The Bad Brains, The Effigies, The Big Boys and The Dead Kennedys among many others.

Roger Thornton

Thornton's is one of the four effigies of Northumberland worthies above 43-45 Northumberland Street in Newcastle.

Royal Arcade, Melbourne

At the south end, the arcade features effigies of mythical figures Gog and Magog and a clock which chimes each hour.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Hughenden

The memorials in the church include three recumbent effigies of knights, one lying cross-legged; although apparently in the style of the 13th century, the effigies have been ascertained to date from the 16th century and are thought to have been sculpted as fabricated evidence of the pedigree of the Wellesbourne family as descendants of Simon de Montfort.

St. Mark's Church, Zagreb

The Gothic composition of the portal consists of fifteen effigies placed in eleven shallow niches.

Taffy was a Welshman

This version seems to have been particularly popular in the English counties that bordered Wales, where it was sung on Saint David's Day (1 March) complete with leek-wearing effigies of Welshmen.

Westminster Abbey Museum

The exhibits include a unique collection of royal and other funeral effigies (funeral saddle, helm and shield of Henry V), together with other treasures, including some panels of medieval glass, 12th-century sculpture fragments, Mary II's coronation chair and replicas of the coronation regalia.


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