Description of the misericords at St Botolph’s Boston
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. |