ABSTRACT
In the centre, lying semi-recumbent on a marble tomb-chest, his back to us and his shrouded legs stretching away from us as we walk up the church, is a semi-reclining figure. Entering the chapel and walking the few paces up to the tomb we glimpse across this marble body the face of someone else, his person obscured since this is a carved figure that kneels on the far side of the tomb-chest, away from us on the liturgical north side. Both these figures are of men wearing their hair long and curled, as was fashionable in the Restoration period. The man beyond is older, and we come to see that he is kneeling beyond the tomb-chest itself and gazing up into the face of the younger man reclining on the top of the chest, who is a little above him (Figure 24.2).
