![]() ![]() Plate 3.12: The Eleanor Cross at Hardingstone, just south of Northampton, was built in 1291-92 and is a five-story cross, octagonal in plan, with a stage of steps, a shaft with blank arcades, a stage of arcaded sculpture niches, an ornate cross-base, and a short eighteenth-century cross at the top. Plates 3.16 and 3.17 are a pair illustrating the Waltham cross, in elevation and with a series of details. Plate 3.14 shows the cross at Geddington (Northamptonshire), with Plate 3.15 showing details including a rather complicated composite plan and the three statues. Plate 3.12 is a view of the Hardingstone cross and Plate 3.13 illustrates details from the cross including the plan and elevations of four statues of Eleanor. (1730-1802) from six drawings made in 1789-90 by Jacob Schnebbelie (1760-1792) the drawings are not in the Red Portfolios at the Society of Antiquaries but may be in Gough’s papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The plates were engraved by James Basire Sr. Beginning with the cross at Hardingstone near Northampton (Plates 3.12 and 3.13), the series continues with the Geddington cross (Plates 3.14 and 3.15) and the Waltham cross (Plates 3.16 and 3.17). This series of six plates illustrates the three surviving “Eleanor Crosses,” the monuments erected by Edward I in the three or four years after the death of his queen consort, Eleanor of Castile, in 1290. 1 T20:27:02+00:00 Plates 3.12-3.17: Eleanor Crosses 49 Scholarly Commentary with DZI View for Vetusta Monumenta, Plates 3.12-3.17.Vetusta Monumenta : Ancient Monuments, a Digital Edition Main Menu Table of Contents TOC for all three volumes (subdivided) About Vetusta Monumenta About Vetusta Monumenta and This Edition Features of this Edition Overview of the technical and scholarly features of the digital edition of Vetusta Monumenta Credits and Acknowledgements List of editors, contributors, assistants, translators, and institutional supportĬreative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Table 1 (Part 1): The journey of Eleanor of Castile's corpse from Harby to Westminster in late 1290 1 media/Table1Part1_thumb.jpg T23:12:08+00:00 Mary-Claire Sarafianos b64b0f9cad2b567cca4c9f2022b28f5bd47876a6 31 1 Part 1 of Table 1 (28 Nov - 12 Dec): The journey of Eleanor of Castile's corpse from Harby to Westminster in late 1290 plain T23:12:08+00:00 Mary-Claire Sarafianos b64b0f9cad2b567cca4c9f2022b28f5bd47876a6 This page is referenced by: ![]() Please enable Javascript and reload the page. This site requires Javascript to be turned on. ![]()
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