Sunday, 20 January 2013

Bashed up bishop


Smashing up stone figures is a lot harder than one thinks, and while the Protestant reformers really would have prefered to completely demolish the 'Papist' images left in English churches in the 16th century, often they simply didn't have the resources.

So, they would often settle for just smashing off the noses of the various saints, angels, Virgin Marys, and, as in this case at St Peter's Church in Norbury, a bishop.
He now resembles a boxer...

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