Folded trumpet and angel

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
19th century
Technique / Medium:
wood carving

    Item location

  • St. Andrew Church (Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England)
    Wooden figure on roof boss, 8.

Description

Folded trumpet played by an angel, the whole figure a replacement, the style and pattern of both angel and costume quite different from the rest, and the trumpet apparently 19th century.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Trumpet [4446]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 15, plate 35. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4164