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A Romanesque Capital at Ely Cathedral

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1986

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64 The two other styles represented by the south transept capitals at Ely are a still vigorous Anglo-Saxon style, characterized by stylizedfoliate motifs similar to those found in such illuminated manuscripts as Ælfric's Pentateuch (British Library, Cotton Claudius BIV), and a purely Norman style, manifest in the simple geometric ornamentation of a number of the capitals' volute leaves.

65 The Early Sculpture of Ely Cathedral (London, 1958), 11Google Scholar.

66 Although probable, it is not known that the abbey possessed any embroidered wall-hangings contemporary with the Bayeux Tapestry. We do know, however, that soon after his death at the Battle of Malden (991) the widow of Bryhtnoth, Alderman of Essex, gave the monks an embroidered hanging depictingheroic scenes from his life.

67 Unfortunately one of these lions is hidden from general view by the nineteenth-century partition wall which encloses all but the southernmost bay of the south transept's east aisle.