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Winchester, Hospital of St Cross, detail of Choir stalls given by Bishop Fox
Butterfield during his 1864-5 restoration of the church reset the fragments of the stalls provided by Bishop Richard Fox in the early 16thC. in the western bay of the choir. The friezes of openwork panels have been fixed above the coving rather than, as originally, fixed to it. Some panels bear Fox's pelican badge and the diocesan arms, but the most prominent feature is large medallions with human heads in profile. Pilasters separate them with Renaissance foliate drops and these continue below the mid-rail as pendant posts which end in corbel figures.
Winchester, Hospital of St Cross, detail of Choir stalls given by Bishop Fox
Butterfield during his 1864-5 restoration of the church reset the fragments of the stalls provided by Bishop Richard Fox in the early 16thC. in the western bay of the choir. The friezes of openwork panels have been fixed above the coving rather than, as originally, fixed to it. Some panels bear Fox's pelican badge and the diocesan arms, but the most prominent feature is large medallions with human heads in profile. Pilasters separate them with Renaissance foliate drops and these continue below the mid-rail as pendant posts which end in corbel figures.