Grinling Gibbons and the woodwork of his age (1648-1720) (1914)
Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933 · London : "Country life" and George Newnes ; New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 171
es, and the work at St. Vedasts does not display his own particular handiwork. It is 154 GRINLING GIBBONS AND THE WOODWORK OF HIS AGE. of oak, which is the ahnost universal materia! of the carvings in all the City churches. In a veryfew cases, however, some limewood was used. Such there was in St.… … FIG. 143. —ALT.^R IlECE, ST. MARY ABCHURCH. same may be said of St. Mary Abchurch, which contains its original fittings almost untouched.It has one of the most magnificent of the altar-pieces (Fig. 143), the centre part of which, aboveand around the Tables of the Law, is profusely decorated with…
