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Beverley Minster |
Beverley Minster, misericord |
1309-1349 Beverley Minster double pipe ,
stone carving 2 |
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minstrels pillar St Mary's Church, Beverley |
The minstrel is wearing the badge of the town waites. The pipe is now broken off,
leaving only the tabor of the pipe-and-tabor combination,
but a drawing by
Caroline Brereton, dated 1866 (now in the local Museum), shows
the pipe in place.
It was still there in 1894, when R. C. Hope read his paper
'Notes on the Minstrels' Pillar,
St. Mary's Church, Beverley' to the East Riding
Antiquarian Society.
‘English bowed instruments from Anglo-Saxon to Tudor times' by Remnant, Mary 1986 |
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Cirencester, St John's Church:
“early sixteenth century gargoyles above the nave clerestory, a remarkable series which are supposed to depict the revels attendant on a " Whitsun Ale."' One figure bears the legend " BE MERRIE," while others are represented playing musical instruments of the period, prominent amongst which are hunting horns, a double recorder, a double shawm, a bag-pipe, tabor and pipe, rebec, lute, portable organ, hurdy-gurdy, and a very rare example of the eunuch flute.”
[Ed These are now said to be so eroded that the instruments cannot now be deciphered.]
'Ancient Cotswold churches. Illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings and the author's photographs' by Cecily Daubeny |
early 16th century Cirencester |
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Lincoln Cathedral
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March, Cambridgeshire, St Wendreda |
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