Commemoration of the Battle of Hastings fought October 1066 on Senlac Ridge
This may be the sheet that Carr called 'Norman Northamptonshire' in the History of the QTP. It is a 'longsheet' of drawings of carvings, shields and buildings that are Norman in origin.
(Last updated on 28/12/2020)
Published at: 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering, Northamptonshire
Year: 1966
Limitation: none
Size: 505 x 200 mm
Paper: white card (presumed)
Colophon: none
Copy: Kettering Public Library (framed)
Notes: This sheet is initialed J C with the year to the right of the arch at the bottom. Carr has written just above the arch:
The Normans left their stony mark across the County; massive piers & pillars, writhing capitals & nightmare tympani, fonts and doorways chiselled into bewilderment of decoration; leaving each stone to answer our perplexity - 'we were like this, and this ... and this'.
Some of these drawings, such as the arch to the base, were reproduced in Carr's small book entitled Forefathers.
Thanks to Tim Dean for a photograph of this longsheet.
