Francis Bond, Wood Carvings in English Churches II… (1910)
“ Hardly anything in a cathedral has so venerable a history as the throne and chair of the Bishop, of wood or ivory. The origin of this type of Bishop's chair goes back to Pagan Rome. There the greater officials had two official chairs, both portable ”
Francis Bond, Wood Carvings in English Churches II… (1910)
“ Most of the chair is older than her time; Dorothy seems to have had it put together of old bits of carving, adding her name and portrait, and the raven, the crest of her father, Sir Robert Corbet. She lived at Ightfield, and it was probably when that branch of the family became extinct that the chair was brought to Higher Peover church, and placed in the Mainwaring chapel. ”
Francis Bond, Wood Carvings in English Churches II… (1910)
“ It is only original up to the level of the arms; the lions, the back and the canopy are modern. In Hereford cathedral is an ancient wooden chair, once coloured in red and gold; it is composed of fifty-three pieces; not counting the seat of two boards and the two circular heads in front; it has been variously ascribed to the twelfth or fourteenth century; but no doubt is Jacobean, belonging to the same class of chairs as those enumerated in the following paragraph (114) . [2] At Stanford Bishop church, Hereford, is a rude chair or settle, of oak without nails. ”
