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Most of the depicted figures are unidentified. We base our list on the research of Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford (1897). The 12 statues lettered by him A to L.
The statues are there from the 13th century, two were replaced and one was refronted in 1852 (B, C, and D). For only three statues is sure who they represent (A, D, F, G and J), from the three copies of 1852 the originals are lost and only known from a print of 1674, from which it appears B had a crown, C a mitre and D neither. Three statues depict archbishops with the pallium (E, I and K) and two bishops (C and H). Statue C shows now the name of Walter de Merton.
In the late 19th century eleven of the statues were replaced by true copies made by George Frampton. For the three statues B, C and D of 1852 Frampton made new designs, for C the figure of Walter de Merton was chosen, since it is facing Merton College.![]() 2 |
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According to Vicar Ffoulkes the statues represent some of the prelates who attended in 1280 the translation of the relics of St. Hugh to the new choir in Lincoln: archbishop Peckham (E) and the archbishop of Dublin (I), each looking towards his cathedral; a bishop of Durham (H), facing his see, the archbishop of York (K) and a bishop of Salisbury (L). Ffoulkes takes the king to be Edward I, who also attended the translation of the relics. Jackson did not agree with this.
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