The South Aisle (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
The Saints of the English Church Eback to Plan
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(7) S Boniface, (680-755) a Benedictine, an Anglo-Saxon missionary from Crediton
in Devon, the Apostle of the Germans. As archbishop of Mainz, he is shown
holding a foliate cross representing the oak sacred to the pagan Germans
which he cut down just before he was martyred. S Swithun, (d.862) bishop of Winchester, the capital of
Wessex. His feast day, 15th
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(8) S Edward the Confessor, (1004-1066) the last Anglo-Saxon king of England and
patron of England. S Edmund, King & Martyr, (849-870) King of the East Angles who was martyred by
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(9) S Dunstan, (c. 910-988) a Benedictine, abbot of Glastonbury, bishop
of Worcester, archbishop of Canterbury. He restored the Anglo-Saxon church. S Elphage the Martyr, (954-1012) an Anglo-Saxon abbot, bishop of Winchester
and then archbishop of Canterbury, who was martyred by the Danes. |
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(10) Triptych of the Annunciation, the Resurrection and Pentecost.
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(11) S Anslem, (1033-1109) a Benedictine who came over from France
shortly after the Norman conquest became archbishop of Canterbury. A great
scholar who was exiled by both William Rufus and Henry I, he was
declared a doctor of the Church. S Edward Martyr, (962-979) briefly king of Wessex and protégé of S
Dunstan, he was murdered by his stepmother, Elfrida, the mother of Ethelred
the Unready, father of S Edward the Confessor. |
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(12) S Hugh of Lincoln, (1140-1200) a Carthusian from Burgundy who founded the
first Charterhouse in England. S Richard of Chichester, (1197-1253) He studied widely on the Continent and was
made chancellor of Oxford University and later bishop of Chichester. The light to the windows 11 and 12 is obscured by the
roof of the cloister. The decorative panels have been rearranged to reduce
this effect as much as possible, but even so, no sun light gets to the lower
half of S Richard’s image. |
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