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Ceiling boss with arms

The Virgin and child surrounded by arms at Oxford's Divinity School: top left, Oxford University arms; top right, the three wheat sheaves of John Cardinal Kemp (c.1380 - 1454); bottom left, Cardinal Kemp's arms impaled with the arms of the See of Canterbury, of which he was Archbishop from 1452.

 

Cardinal Kemp was a major benefactor of Oxford University and a fellow of Merton.

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Uploaded on December 2, 2006
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