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Description of the misericords at St Botolph’s Boston


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NH01

Owl

Left Supporter - Missing

Right Supporter - Wild man clinging to leafless tree.

NH02

Bear playing organ, another bear with chain round its neck blowing the bellows.

 Left Supporter - Bear beating drum.

Right Supporter - Bear playing bagpipes.

NH03

A foliated design.

NH04

Damaged

NH05

Pelican in her piety.

NH06

St. George and the dragon.

Supporters - Foliate square.

NH07

Knight fighting dragon and eagle.

 Supporters - Eagle.

NH08

Capture of the unicorn.

Supporters - Flower.

NH09

St. George and the Dragon.

NH10

Bearded lion with bodies of two birds.

Supporters - Dragon.

NH11

Floral design.

NH12

Floral design.

NH13

Floral design.

NH14

Grotesque head.

Supporters - Lion mask.

NH15

Rose-bush bearing flowers and buds.

Supporters - Foliage.

NH16

Ape wearing hood and sitting with legs crossed, about to pour out of a pitcher into a bucket held by a fox; behind him

another fox.

Supporters - Foliage.

NH17

Dragons.

Supporters - Dragon.

NH18

Floral design.

Supporters - Floral roundel.

NH19

Nun’s head in a veil.

Supporters - Foliate square.

R01

Man lassoing lion and jumping on its back.

Supporters - Dragon.

R02

Griffin. [damaged]

Left Supporter - Missing.

Right Supporter - Fox eating.

R03

Spread eagle. [damaged]

Left Supporter - Eagle.

Right Supporter - Fox.

NB01

Two swans, with wings spread gorged, with one ducal coronet.

Supporters - Swans swimming.

NB02

Master seated birching a boy who is trying to protect himself with a book. Three other boys are looking on.

NB03

Two jesters, each squeezing a cat under its arm and biting its tail.

Supporters - Leaf.

NB04

Man’s head with beard in ringlets.

Supporters - Pomegranate.

NB05

Angel holding a mitre.

Supporters - Missing.

NB06

Griffin.

Supporters - Missing.

NB07

Hunter sharpening knife on a flint. His hounds are beside him.

Supporters - Dog.

NB08

Lion with winged bodies.

Supporters - Hare playing pipes.

NB09

Man cutting undergrowth with an axe.

Supporters - Two heads under one cap.

NB10

Buck seated between two trees.

Supporters - Bird eating snail.

SH01

Stag.

Left Supporter - Camel.

Right Supporter - Kneeling camel.

SH02

Two eagles scratching their feet.

Supporters - Foliate square.

SH03

Helmet.

Supporters - Helmet.

SH04

Mounted knight in armour leaning back and picking up a horseshoe.

Supporters - Floral motif.

SH05

Lion mauling a dragon.

Supporters - Lion mask.

SH06

Dragon and griffin confronted.

Supporters - Missing.

SH07

Sir Yvain’s horse cut into by the portcullis as he enters the enemy castle.

SH08

Winged monster.

Supporters - Foliate square.

SH09

Two headed eagle.

Left Supporter - Man’s head in profile with cap

Right Supporter - Woman’s head in hood.

SH10

Siren piping to two sailors.

SH11

Monster.

Supporters - Foliate square.

SH12

Helmet with large chin piece, crowned with a wreath and covered with a flowing mantle.

Supporters - Floral square.

SH13

Man with bellows and woman with ladle and basin sitting by fire over which hangs a cauldron. Behind man is a pitcher and

behind woman is a distaff and spindle.

Supporters - Head.

SH14

Foliated design.

SH15

Woman with distaff and spindle, chasing fox carrying a cock. Two hens are left.

Supporters - Head with protruding tongue.

SH16

Bear-baiting.

Left Supporter - Chained bear.

Right Supporter - Chained bear licking its paw.

SH17

Lion with two winged bodies.

Left Supporter - Missing.

Right Supporter - Dog on leash.

SH18

Rose-bush.

Supporters - Spray of roses.

R01

Eagle with outstretched wings.

Left Supporter - Lion curled up.

Right Supporter - Missing.

R02

Two antelopes.

Supporters - Antelope.

R03

Angel [damaged ] with feathered legs and outstretched wings.

Left Supporters - Bishop seated on his throne with his staff in his left hand.

Right Supporter - The Rector reading his office.

SB01

Crowned and bearded heads.

Supporters - Heads.

SB02

Two winged monsters, their necks encircled with a coronet.

Supporters - Lion mask.

SB03

Hunter, in his left hand a bow and under his arm two very large arrows. With right hand he is defending himself from his

wife, who has seized him by the chin and threatening him with her distaff.

Supporters - Foliate square.

SB04

Hunter about to shoot a stag with a very large arrow.

Supporters - Foliate square.

SB05

ox, dressed in cope trimmed with lace and holding a pastoral staff, preaching to two hens on his right. On his left is a fox

wearing a ruff and holding an open book.

Supporters - Hen sitting on nest.

SB06

Man, clad in skins and armed with a large club, fighting a lion. His shield lies on the ground behind him With his left hand

he seizes the lion by the mane.

Left Supporter - Man.

Right Supporter - Lion before the fight.

SB07

Man, being eaten by wolves; he still holds his sword in his hand.

Supporters - Foliate square.

SB08

The pillar to which Christ was bound and scourged.

Supporters - Angels with censers.

SB09

Queen being crowned by tow bird-like angels. {This may represent Anne of Bohemia, first wife of Richard II. She was granted the manor of Boston for three years , and on her petition the guild of St. Mary was incorporated.}

SB10

Bird perched in a tree.

Supporters - Foliage.

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