Collage of 2 churches

BENCH ENDS

Beautiful carvings of the bench ends in East Anglian churches

 

 

Two churches
SOME GREEN MEN encountered in
East Anglian
churches
 
  
 

 

  BENCH ENDS AND GREEN MEN IN 

   SUFFOLK AND NORFOLK CHURCHES

 

G LOCATIONS. More will be added as they are discovered.

 

 

  ST. MARTIN'S, GLANDFORD, NORFOLK
  
Glandford Church, Norfolk.Bench end carving of dog by his master's coffin
 

 

 

 

    
                                                                                  The present building is a restoration of a much earlier one, which was partly 13th century with a 15th century arcade and north aisle. Only the arcade and part of the walls of the original are still to be seen.
  
   A modern carving on a front bench end is of a faithful dog with its head resting on its master's coffin. The master was Sir Alfred Jodrell, at whose expense the church was rebuilt and who died in 1929, being buried at Letheringsett. He wanted no memorial for himself but instead asked that a monument be erected inside the vestry door in memory of those who helped in the rebuilding of the church.
   By the way, if you think that the carving is similar to Landseer's picture "The Shepherd's Chief Mourner", you are right!
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