- Paperback: 16 pages
- Publisher: Even Handed Licensing Ltd (31 Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0953557383
- ISBN-13: 978-0953557387
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 17.6 x 0.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,236,257 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Adam Easton was one of the pre-eminent Englishmen in the pre Reformation catholic church. A cardinal, based in Avignon, then Rome, he was also rather less well known for being the vicar of Somersham Church in Huntingdonshire. This book ties the story of Adam Easton to the rustic carvings on the roof bosses of the church in Somersham and suggests a strong link between the absent cardinal and his church.
Excerpted from Adam Easton and the Roof Bosses of Somersham Church by Andrew Lee. Copyright © 2002. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
The mediaeval church of St John’s in Somersham, Huntingdonshire stands just to the South of the village cross. As you enter the church from the North porch there are two things that might strike the casual visitor as odd. The first is a collection of 14th century wooden roof bosses, but in particular, the bosses that carry the image of Richard II and his queen, Anne of Bohemia. The other oddity is a collection of stone carvings of monks in various postures scattered along the wall of the North and South Aisle. What possible connection could this small rural church have with the royal family and why would a church with no connection to a monastery or abbey carry such a collection of carved monks?
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