Meserole, Mike <br/><br/>
The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey 

 -  Boydell Press  2003 
 - 244 pages 
<br/><br/> Westminster Abbey contains a unique and important group of effigies, some familiar, many little-known, including kings, queens, statesmen and national heroes, ranging in time from the middle ages to the early nineteenth century. They derive from a time when an effigy of the dead monarch, statesman or national hero played an important part in funeral ritual, offering a visible likeness as a focus to the ceremonial of the funeral. This richly illustrated book, which is the first substantial publication on the effigies since 1936, is both a history of the collection and of the origins and development of the funeral effigy, and a full descriptive catalogue of the twenty-one examples in the Abbey. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780851158792 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>942.1  / HAR