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Eight pieces of the base of a monument formerly in the church yard of St Mary's, Leyton, Essex, with crest of the Bosanquet family at the lower end
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Tomb surround SM MY1. ©Sir John Soane's Museum. Photo: Lewis Bush.
Eight pieces of the base of a monument formerly in the church yard of St Mary's, Leyton, Essex, with crest of the Bosanquet family at the lower end
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Museum number: MY1
On display: Monk's Yard
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
These salvaged fragments have been used by Soane as the outer rim of the 'Monk’s tomb', the supposed final resting place of his imaginary hermit 'Padre Giovanni' in the external Monk's Yard at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Soane designed a tomb for his patron and friend Samuel Bosanquet in the churchyard at Leyton in Essex (now in the London Borough of Waltham Forest) following his death in 1806. In doing so he must have had the opportunity to acquire these parts of the ornamental base of an earlier Bosanquet memorial for re-use, much later, in 1824-25, to form this fictitious tomb in his Monk's Yard. Soane''s own Bosanquet tomb in Leyton was in its turn demolished in 1957.
At the end of the 'tomb' the remnants of the arms of the Bosanquet family in relief, much worn, can just be made out (a knight's helm bearing a crest).
Soane designed a tomb for his patron and friend Samuel Bosanquet in the churchyard at Leyton in Essex (now in the London Borough of Waltham Forest) following his death in 1806. In doing so he must have had the opportunity to acquire these parts of the ornamental base of an earlier Bosanquet memorial for re-use, much later, in 1824-25, to form this fictitious tomb in his Monk's Yard. Soane''s own Bosanquet tomb in Leyton was in its turn demolished in 1957.
At the end of the 'tomb' the remnants of the arms of the Bosanquet family in relief, much worn, can just be made out (a knight's helm bearing a crest).
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