Tympanum - St Edmund's RC church - Bungay, Suffolk - Frieze Art on Waymarking.com

"Above the doorway, and linking the two saints [Pope Gregory the Great (c540-604) and St Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury (d 604)], runs a course decorated with vine leaves and grapes in which there are three crowns, the circlets ornamented with alternate leaves and arrow flights. This combination of a crown with arrows as an emblem of St Edmund recurs persistently throughout the building. Looking further upwards, in the tympanum of the large arch which dominates the porch there are three canopied reliefs illustrating episodes from the legend of St Edmund. The left hand niche shows Edmund as he kneels before his captors, the Danish princes Hyngwar and Ubba, but refuses to deny Christ; the central relief depicts his martyrdom, the saint bound and pierced with arrows prior to beheading; the right hand scene then shows the discovery of his missing head, which according to legend was guarded by a wolf. Finally, in the gable above the archway, there is a circular six-foiled recess in which St Edmund sits enthroned."

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Address: St Edmund 1 St Mary's St Bungay, Suffolk England NR35 1AX Artist: Not listed Web URL to relevant information: Not listed

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