Detail of a decorative compound pier capital from Furness Abbey

Date:
20 Mar 2024
Location:
Furness Abbey, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
Reference:
DP485778
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

Accession number 81500768. Photographer's note: 'from left hand side, a winged dragon or beast with large eyes and ears is behind foliage. Two apes have captured a beast (dog/wolf?) between them, the left hand ape is biting the beast's head, both are restraining the beast by its legs.'

Content

This is part of the Job: 2K/28618 Furness Abbey, Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria; within the Volume: VF000569 Furness Abbey, Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria; within the Series: HEC01/025 Historic England Architectural Requests; within the Collection: HEC01 Historic England

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Bull, Alun: Historic England

Keywords

Pier, Capital, Savigniac Monastery, Cluniac Monastery