Brass rubbing, in black heel-ball, on white paper, George Ridding, Bishop of Southwell, 1904, in ecclesiastical attire, with bishop's mitre, shield, 6 lines of Latin inscription, at the chapel of Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire, by Herbert Druitt, 1876-1943
'This modern brass to George Ridding, first Bishop of Southwell, represents him full face, hands conjoined in prayer, standing on a grass plot with flowers. Clean-shaven, he wears long sideburns fashionable in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. On his head is the modern mortar board. His foot-length robe has generous, slightly puffed sleeves that come to narrow cuffs, and over this he wears a very long scarf that reaches almost to the hem of the gown. Beneath, too, is a second long garment, perhaps a cassock. At the wrists are ruffled sleeves, perhaps from this undergarment. Above the effigy is what might be termed an ecclesiastical achievement though here the bishop'd mitre with infulae takes the place of helm with mantling. The shield displays on the left three roundels with wavy horizontal lines and a chief (top horizontal band) quartered in three with a seated buck, a Virgin and Child, and a raguly cross. These artms impale a chevron between three boars' heads' (Source: www.hamline.edu/brass/pdfs)
On a rectangular plate below the effigy are inscribed six lines of Latin capitals, the translation of which is: Sacred to the memory of George Ridding, S.T.P.( Professor of Sacred Theology), first Bishop of Southwell, who was born within the walls of this college, scholar, headmaster, instructor, fellow. Fell asleep in Christ the 30th day of the month of August A.S.1904, at the age of 77.
'This modern brass to George Ridding, first Bishop of Southwell, represents him full face, hands conjoined in prayer, standing on a grass plot with flowers. Clean-shaven, he wears long sideburns fashionable in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. On his head is the modern mortar board. His foot-length robe has generous, slightly puffed sleeves that come to narrow cuffs, and over this he wears a very long scarf that reaches almost to the hem of the gown. Beneath, too, is a second long garment, perhaps a cassock. At the wrists are ruffled sleeves, perhaps from this undergarment. Above the effigy is what might be termed an ecclesiastical achievement though here the bishop'd mitre with infulae takes the place of helm with mantling. The shield displays on the left three roundels with wavy horizontal lines and a chief (top horizontal band) quartered in three with a seated buck, a Virgin and Child, and a raguly cross. These artms impale a chevron between three boars' heads' (Source: www.hamline.edu/brass/pdfs)
On a rectangular plate below the effigy are inscribed six lines of Latin capitals, the translation of which is: Sacred to the memory of George Ridding, S.T.P.( Professor of Sacred Theology), first Bishop of Southwell, who was born within the walls of this college, scholar, headmaster, instructor, fellow. Fell asleep in Christ the 30th day of the month of August A.S.1904, at the age of 77.
