Church of England Churches in Suffolk - Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham, St Mary's Church, Ickworth, Saint Mary at Stoke (Paperback)

Chapters: Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham, St Mary's Church, Ickworth, Saint Mary at Stoke, St. Peter's Church, Carlton Colville, St Margaret, Ilketshall. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: St Michael the Archangel in Framlingham, Suffolk, known affectionately as St Mike's, is a Church of England church dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel. The church contains family burials of the Howards (mostly moved after the dissolution of Thetford Priory): Stands immediately to the south of the high altar. Part-Franch and part-English in design, it bears artistic comparison with anything in Northern Europe, if not perhaps Italy. Around the four sides are the figures of the twelve apostles together with Aaron and St. Paul the Apostle, the last major display of religious imagery in England before the iconoclastic phases of the English Reformation ruled it out forever. Significant for being the commission of an 'over mighty subject' rather than a royal, parts may be taken from the monument of his father Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk at Thetford. Three male bodies interred in the 3rd Duke's monument, perhaps the 1st, 2nd and 3rd dukes, all removed here after the dissolution. He himself is buried at St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of London, executed there for trying to make a 4th marriage to Mary, Queen of Scots. In their robes of state and resting their heads and feet on emblems connected with their Houses, his 1st and 2nd wives Mary FitzAlan and Margaret Audley are represented, though only Margaret is buried here. The large space between these 2 effigies is perhaps for Mary, Queen of Scots, or him, or his third wife. In 1842 this vault was opened and found to be empty but for a skull and some ashes. Tradition has it that the inhabita...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=429676