Ramsbury
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RamsburyAll photographs are copyright to Wiltshire Green Men |
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Type: | Foliate head |
| Location: | Church of the Holy Cross | |
| OS GR: | SU 274716 | |
| Period: | Seventeenth-century (c.1682) | |
| Medium: | Marble | |
| Foliage: | Stylised | |
| Mood: | Piscine, grotestque | |
| Description This rather fish-like foliate head is part of the decorations on the fine tomb of Sir William Jones of Ramsbury Manor, who died in 1682. We can therefore date this carving fairly exactly to the late seventeeth-century. Also at Ramsbury
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Design
by Black Cat Folklore |
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