Angel with organ

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
15th century
Technique / Medium:
stone carving

    Item location

  • All Saints Church (Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, England)
    Corbel supporting a nave roof wall post, south 1

Description

Portative organ with 18 pipes, roughly scaled, two-level reversed keyboard with at least two sharps side by side. Right hand apparently playing a chord.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Portative organ [2267]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 46, plate 85. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4221