2014
SK7519 : Alabaster tomb in St Mary's - Melton Mowbray
taken 10 years ago, near to Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England
Alabaster tomb in St Mary's - Melton Mowbray
This exquisite alabaster figure of a woman from the wealthy De Burgeis family is in fourteenth century dress. Her death pillow is supported by two little angels. Though some uncertainty still surrounds this tomb, it is presumed that it was indeed carved during the fourteenth century. It appears that the De Burgeis family held lands at Melton Mowbray as early as the reign of Richard II when one Thomas de Burgeis was living there.
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