A wimpled female face surrounded by foliage on a fragment of St Frideswide's C13th shrine in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
Detail of a wimpled female face surrounded by foliage on a fragment of St Frideswide's C13th (1289) shrine beside her tomb in the Lady Chapel of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. May represent the Saxon St Frideswide with greater celandine leaves often used to cure eye complaints, which would fit with the blinding and curing of an unwelcome suitor in her legend The Medieval shrine, broken up and dispersed at the Reformation, was reconstructed and replaced in the C19th from rediscovered fragments. The shrine was famous in the Middle Ages for producing miraculous rays of golden light.
Size: 3909px × 5500px
Location: St Frideswide's Shrine, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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