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Lincoln Cathedral, Chapter House, carved panel on front of Bishop's Chair
This fourteenth-century Bishop's Chair with an impressive carved canopy made for J L Pearson, Cathedral architect fom 1870-93. It is unlikely, however, the chair originally ever had an integral canopy. The chair is of primitive joined construction. It has been assembled with a series of stub tenons secured by pegs. The decorative front panel has two tiers of openwork quatrefoils, carved from a single piece of oak. The arms feature carved lions, the heads of which are restorations under Pearson. There is a chapter on the chair in the book "Britain's Medieval Episcopal Thrones" by Charles Tracy, Oxbow Books, 2015.
Lincoln Cathedral, Chapter House, carved panel on front of Bishop's Chair
This fourteenth-century Bishop's Chair with an impressive carved canopy made for J L Pearson, Cathedral architect fom 1870-93. It is unlikely, however, the chair originally ever had an integral canopy. The chair is of primitive joined construction. It has been assembled with a series of stub tenons secured by pegs. The decorative front panel has two tiers of openwork quatrefoils, carved from a single piece of oak. The arms feature carved lions, the heads of which are restorations under Pearson. There is a chapter on the chair in the book "Britain's Medieval Episcopal Thrones" by Charles Tracy, Oxbow Books, 2015.