South Acre, Norfolk, UK
Church of St George
Fragment of a knight, Sir Roger de Harsick (?). Wood. Now in arched recess in south wall of chancel.
Only a part of the torso down to the legs survives. He is bearded and wears a helmet. The fragment has been dated c.1450/1500. Sir Roger had served with Henry V in France (one of 20 lances). In his will, dated 1453 in South Acre, he had desired to be buried in the chancel of South Acre.
Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of South Greenhoe: South-Acre', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 6 (London, 1807), pp. 77-87; wikipedia.org/wiki/ Knights_Templar_in_England, both accessed 29 January 2016; Mark Downing, Military Effigies of England and Wales, Vol 4: Leicestershire-Norfolk, Monumental Books, Shrewsbury, 2012, p. 131
South Acre, Norfolk, UK
Church of St George
Fragment of a knight, Sir Roger de Harsick (?). Wood. Now in arched recess in south wall of chancel.
Only a part of the torso down to the legs survives. He is bearded and wears a helmet. The fragment has been dated c.1450/1500. Sir Roger had served with Henry V in France (one of 20 lances). In his will, dated 1453 in South Acre, he had desired to be buried in the chancel of South Acre.
Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of South Greenhoe: South-Acre', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 6 (London, 1807), pp. 77-87; wikipedia.org/wiki/ Knights_Templar_in_England, both accessed 29 January 2016; Mark Downing, Military Effigies of England and Wales, Vol 4: Leicestershire-Norfolk, Monumental Books, Shrewsbury, 2012, p. 131