Month: August 2026

Reconstruction of John Fitzalan's damaged alabaster effigy using Charles Alfred Stothard's 1815 drawing as a guide to the lost facial features. The face has been retained in stone rather than assigned a speculative skin colour.

Discover John Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel and Knight of the Garter: his powerful family, estates, Hundred Years' War career, death at Gerberoy, remarkable one-legged burial and the damaged medieval effigy preserved in Stothard's 1815 drawing.

Hubert Walter 13c Archbishop Canterbury Tomb

Discover Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, crusader, Chief Justiciar and Lord Chancellor, his powerful Walter family and Butler dynasty connections, and the remarkable medieval faces preserved on his 800-year-old tomb at Canterbury Cathedral.