Minstrels' gallery

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
late 13th century
Technique / Medium:
stone carving

    Item location

  • Exeter Cathedral (Devon, England)
    On the nave side of the "Minstrels' Gallery," which forms the front of the of a gallery in the nave triforium, and which may have been used for a choir or group of musicians.

Description

Musicians playing gittern, bagpipe, shawm, fiddle, harp, trumpets, portitive organ, citole, indeterminate woodwind, timbre, cymbals.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Gittern [3365]
Bagpipe [3746] (with drone)
Shawm [4258]
Fiddle [3142] (5 strings)
Harp [3285]
Trumpet [4446] (One is trumpet broken off except for top of mouthpiece; also depicted is a short trumpet)
Portative organ [2267]
Citole [3335] (4 strings)
Wind instruments [3730]
Cymbals [2451]

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

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

Byng, Gabriel. "The function and iconography of the Minstrels’ Gallery at Exeter Cathedral", Journal of the British Archaeological Association 167/1 (2014) 133-153.

RIdIM record id

4216