Some Interesting Essex Brasses 1908

Title : Some Interesting Essex Brasses 1908  
Author : Not Stated
Source : Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist
Year Published : 1908
Page Count : 22
Image Count : 10
Word Count : 11,164
File Size in MB : 8.4
File Type : PDF

"In the present article, we treat of and illustrate ten more such brasses, including several of the finest existing in the county. The first we select for treatment is that to Sir John de Wautone (1347) and his wife Ellen (fig. 1), which lies in the north aisle of the nave at Wimbish and is one of the earliest and most interesting we have in Essex. The effigies are small and placed in the head of a very elegant octofoil cross, which, together with the marginal fillet on which was the inscription, is almost wholly lost..."