Tong Shropshire

A bedesman under the left foot of Sir Henry Vernon, died 1515, at Tong. The tomb, between the Golden Chapel of 1510 and the south aisle of Tong church. The tomb takes the same form as the alabaster tomb of Richard Vernon in the nave but Richard's foot has no bedesman beneath it, unlike many alabaster effigies of the period. Sir Henry's bedesman is another indication that his stone tomb came

from an alabaster workshop, like a few others at this time.

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