Ordulph's tomb, Tavistock Abbey ([1834])
G. P. Hearder
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Illustration Reference
SC2767
Location
CD 42 DVD 7
Publication Details
Date
[1834]
Place
Scope and Content
Bray, Mrs. The borders of the Tamar and the Tavy; London: W. Kent and Co., 1879. Vol. I. pp. 386-7.But notwithstanding the superiority of his strength and stature, Ordulph died in the flower of his age. He gave orders to be buried at his abbey at Herton, in Dorsetshire; but was interred in or near the Abbey Church of Tavistock, where a mausoleum or tomb of vast dimensions was erected to his memory, which is represented to have been visited as a wonder. Prince, in his Worthies of Devon, says, "There is nothing now remaining of it but an arch, where as tradition testifies, this mighty tomb stood."An arch still remains in tolerable preservation on the site of what, there is every reason to believe, had been part of the Abbey Church. It bears evidently the appearance of a shrine, or sepulchral monument; consisting of a rich and highly-relieved moulding, supported by three short pillars at either extremity. It is pointed at the top, but spreading, and being closed, or built so as to form part of a wall, is crossed just above the capitals of the columns by a range of small arches, supported also themselves by a row of little pillars on a kind of plinth.Though Mr. Bray is rather inclined to consider this the tomb of Ordulph, it is generally denominated Childe's tomb.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
Format
Wood engr
Dimensions
60x85mm
Note
On same sheet as 2768
Aspects
Monuments
Counties
Subjects
Dates
1834