Virgin and Child

Photo © Martin Crampin East end of the Cathedral, showing the tower above the Lady Chapel. larger image

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..  (ObjectID=1 ImageID=1673) Original File Name=_MG_4862.jpg

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• Madonna: Mary sitting or enthroned, the Christ-child in her lap 

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

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

Photo © Martin Crampin