Copy of a stippled drawing of a bull's head on an earl's coronet, surmounting Cambridge Gate at Audley End, relating to repairs to gate piers

Date:
Mar 1984
Location:
Audley End, Cambridge Gate, Littlebury, Audley Park, Uttlesford, Essex
Reference:
MP/AEH0716
Type:
Measured Drawing
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Description

In heraldry the bull's head could represent Henry VIII as he granted the abbey to Sir Thomas Audley in 1538 and the earl's coronet representing Thomas Howard his grandson, first Earl of Suffolk, who built Audley End.

Content

This is part of the Volume: PF/AEH Audley End House, Saffron Walden, Essex; within the Series: EHC01/022 English Heritage Plans And Measured Drawings; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive

Rights

© Crown Copyright. Historic England Archive

Keywords

Sculpture, Victorian Gate Pier, Animals