Be comforted (coloured
pencil on paper)
A detail of a stone memorial
and morally uplifting biblical
quotation in St Lawrence Church, Dial Lane, Ipswich. This, one of the
twelve medieval churches in the town, boasts the oldest ring of bells
in the country; when your hear them ring, you are listening to the same
bells that Thomas Wolsey (c.1475-1530) would have heard as a lad
in Ipswich. This drawing is seen by some as potentially upsetting for
the elderly viewer; however, the original carved stone memorial detail
– and its chance collision with lettering – is a few feet from where
those same elderly people are sipping their cups of tea in St Lawrence
Church, now a fine café/restaurant in Dial Lane. See the memorial on
which this drawing is based on Borin's Ipswich
Historic Lettering website.
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