{"id":6300,"date":"2012-04-06T23:01:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T22:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6300"},"modified":"2012-04-06T23:01:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T22:01:14","slug":"abingdon-links-in-london-6-and-new-york-1-alexander-of-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6300","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Links in London 6 &#8211; Alexander of Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12040707.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander of Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nWhen Edward I brought the body of his dead <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eleanor_of_Castile\">Queen Eleanor of Castile<\/a> from Harby, Nottinghamshire to be buried in Westminster Abbey in 1290, he had a cross erected at the place where the procession rested  each night. Only three, of the original twelve remain, and the one at Waltham had a sculpture, of Queen Eleanor, by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Abingdon\">Alexander of Abingdon<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12040704.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander of Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nTo help protect her for the future, the original scuplture has been loaned by Hertfordshire \u00a0to the V&amp;A and can be seen currently (April 2012) in Room 10 &#8211; Medieaval and Renaissance art.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12040702.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander of Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nAnother sculpture, Virgin and Child, attributed to Alexander of Abingdon is to be found in the Metropolitan Art Gallery in New York. It was found in Newbury very recently &#8211; in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander could well have learned his craft at Abingdon Abbey, and in Oxford, before becoming a maker of images for the court of King Edward I. \u00a0So if you happen to see any sculpture of that style with heavy flowing drapery, perhaps an early work, it would be good to get the next one for the Town of Abingdon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Edward I brought the body of his dead Queen Eleanor of Castile from Harby, Nottinghamshire to be buried in Westminster Abbey in 1290, he had a cross erected at the place where the procession rested each night. Only three, of the original twelve remain, and the one at Waltham had a sculpture, of Queen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}