His survey, by contrast, sets out to explore what he calls the “other half” of medieval art, the everyday objects accessible to the bulk of the population – biscuit moulds, furniture, cheap lead jewellery, personal seals, floor tiles, woodcuts in books that illustrate contemporary stories and sayings, and decorative carvings in churches such as misericords and carved capitals. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)
Ottery St MaryA splendid chapel in a very grand Devon parish church (below), containing many original features such as a carved eagle lectern and the original canon's stalls and misericords (choir stall carvings). ❋ Unknown (2011)
He hides high in the church roof, or crouches in carved misericords beneath the seats of choir stalls, where choirboys stuff their sweet wrappers. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)
With Frederic Billiet, she had just published the Lexicon also Brepols, a dictionary of the terms for misericords and choir stalls, regularizing usage among languages. ❋ Nicola Masciandaro (2008)
The seats against the wall on each side (the misericords) are all new, but not so are the trefoil-headed arcade and the massive oak beam which bear the standards supporting their book-rests. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The Jacobean pulpit and misericords in the choir call for remark and also the interesting "memoriall" on a pillar of the nave to the "Renowned Martialist" -- Richard Boles -- who defended the church during the attack referred to above. ❋ Edric Holmes (N/A)
They tweaked his tail on carven misericords, and in the mystery play he was invariably cast for the clown. ❋ G. G. [Editor] Putnam (1915)
Rheims, whose father, in 1512, seeing him apt for religion, put him into a cassock and designed him for the Church, whereupon the youngling began to be as careless and devilish as Mercury, putting beeswax on the misericords, burning feathers in the censer, and even going round himself with the plate without leave and scolding the rich in loud whispers when they did not put in enough. ❋ Hilaire Belloc (1911)
On each side of the choir are fifteen stalls with quaintly carved misericords. ❋ Sidney Heath (1907)
The misericords of Bishop Bruere have been placed beneath the seats. ❋ Percy Addleshaw (1891)
The introduction of an elephant proves that these misericords were not completed until after Bruere's death in 1244; the elephant having been first brought into England in 1255. ❋ Percy Addleshaw (1891)
The church committee hopes to install a new kitchen, toilet facilities and fresh church lighting, as well as renovate its organ and historic misericords. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Taken from the Medieval (C. 1380) carvings found upon the misericords and supports from within the choir stalls of Chester Cathedral. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The important thing is that it be done before Lady Schrapnell gets back, and Ned’s the only historian in Oxford who’s not off somewhere chasing after misericords. ❋ Willis, Connie (1997)
