Virgin and Child

  Virgin and Child

Photo © Martin Crampin

East end of the Cathedral, showing the tower above the Lady Chapel.

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about 1901
Virgin and Child under a canopy.

medium: stone
technique: carved

designer: John Oldrid Scott

St Davids Cathedral, St Davids, Pembrokeshire
Lady Chapel exterior gable

The Lady Chapel dates from the thirteenth-fourteenth century, but remodelled early sixteenth century by Bishop Vaughan. It was ruinous after 1775 when the vault collapsed, until reconstructed by Oldrid Scott in 1901, when the statue was added by the architect..




 

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Further reading

Wyn Evans and Roger Worsley, Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi/St Davids Cathedral 1181-1981 (St Davids: Yr Oriel Fach Press, 1981), p.132; Plate 149.

References

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 406.




  Virgin and Child

Photo © Martin Crampin


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