Sentence examples for recumbent effigy from inspiring English sources

In one corner there is a recumbent effigy said to be that of an O'Brien king killed nearby in 1267.

This alabaster monument featuring freestanding sculptures, pillars, and reliefs defied the traditional Gothic form of a stiff, recumbent effigy and instead recalled Venetian wall monuments, which often presented the deceased as a more active, reclining figure.

The interior of St. Leonard's contains, in miniature, all the essential features of an early Gothic church: roof-vaulting and bosses, masterfully carved columns with foliage capitals, a choir screen, and even a recumbent effigy of a 13th-century knight with a "coal scuttle" helmet.

A recumbent effigy of the Prince in a Hussar uniform (almost impossible to see properly in situ) lies above the tomb.

In the north transept is a freestanding tombchest monument to Bishop Pearson who died in 1686, designed by Arthur Blomfield and carved by Nicholas Earp, with a recumbent effigy by Matthew Noble.

These include the 14th-century tomb of Ralph Davenport with the recumbent figure of a knight wearing plate armour with a gorget (collar) of mail (armour consisting of linked metal rings) and a conical helmet, a tomb chest of 1654, and a recumbent effigy (statue) of Lady Egerton, who died in 1599.

Noteworthy are its nine recumbent effigies of knights (not Templars, but their patrons), and its transitional style of architecture -- Norman hovering on the verge of Gothic.

Both are in yellow sandstone, date from the medieval period, and include weathered recumbent effigies.

It includes the recumbent effigies in marble of Sir Thomas and his wife, Elizabeth.

The Chapel of St Michael and All Angel has a recumbent alabaster effigy known as "the Pilgrim".

In the chapel is the earl's tomb (a brass recumbent effigy on a Purbeck marble tomb chest), one of the finest medieval monuments in England.