tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post8335626466600530297..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Llanwarne, HerefordshirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-13458180872695518172020-09-04T20:39:19.238+01:002020-09-04T20:39:19.238+01:00Somehow, this being in the open air, evokes monume...Somehow, this being in the open air, evokes monuments in ruined old churches in Ireland. There's a confident swagger about Jacobean sort-of Classical which is very beguiling, although one regrets the tendency of the time to fill up parish churches with elaborate monuments for the rich. The compensation of course is the heraldry. I don't know where to find the notes on this monument, if I made them, but the old lion rampant suggests one of the old Native Welsh arms so prevalent in Wales and over the border - Llanwarne of course being quite near it, and I think in the old Archenfield (Erging) that was a Welsh-speaking area once. The heraldic design has that confidence too. There must have been a fair number of artists (or one very over-worked one) able to do these things circa 1636. Joseph Biddulph (Publisher)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655472675410890012noreply@blogger.com