Slide set: The fifty misericords of Exeter Cathedral (lecture: privately made, 51 slides, 1911)
privately made, England
BAKER, W. Weaver (1866-1954) – photographer, all 51 slides
The misericords are a celebrated series of wood carvings on the underside of tip-up seats in the choir of Exeter Cathedral (their function was to act as a bench for the choristers to lean on during long services). Slide 51 shows the general arrangement, with the seat in the tipped-up position to show the misericord carving.
In addition to the numbers 1-50 as seen in the images, most of the slides also carry numbers between 52 and 111 on the top edges; in combination with the different styles of labelling this may suggest that the set as illustrated here is a composite assembled from at least two copies of the same set.
51 slides in Royal Albert Memorial Museum Collection
Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 17 August 2016
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