Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 ‘A perpetual college’: writing the history of Manchester’s Collegiate Church and Cathedral
- 2 The pre-collegiate church: origins and early development
- 3 From Foundation to Reformation, 1421–1558
- 4 Manchester Collegiate Church, 1558–1660
- 5 The Collegiate Church under the Old Regime, 1660–1829
- 6 From ‘Th’Owd Church’ to Manchester Cathedral, 1830–1914
- 7 The Cathedral, 1914–83
- 8 The Cathedral, 1983 to the present
- 9 Architecture
- 10 Music
- 11 Memorials
- 12 Misericords
- 13 Stained glass
- Index
12 - Misericords
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2026
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 ‘A perpetual college’: writing the history of Manchester’s Collegiate Church and Cathedral
- 2 The pre-collegiate church: origins and early development
- 3 From Foundation to Reformation, 1421–1558
- 4 Manchester Collegiate Church, 1558–1660
- 5 The Collegiate Church under the Old Regime, 1660–1829
- 6 From ‘Th’Owd Church’ to Manchester Cathedral, 1830–1914
- 7 The Cathedral, 1914–83
- 8 The Cathedral, 1983 to the present
- 9 Architecture
- 10 Music
- 11 Memorials
- 12 Misericords
- 13 Stained glass
- Index
Summary
The Eagle and Child, the Elephant and Castle, the Angel, the Lion, the Stag and the Unicorn – not a list of public houses located in and around Manchester, but some of the misericords in Manchester Cathedral, dating from the very early sixteenth century and amongst the finest in England. Misericords, those carved images found under the choir stalls, offer glances of the ordinary, the real, the imagined, and the fantastic. They highlight hidden worlds and tell tales from the edge; they are the wooden equivalent of the marginalia in illuminated manuscripts. This chapter offers an analysis of the misericords of Manchester, describing the carvings and providing a context in which to understand the images and their meanings.
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- Manchester CathedralA history of the Collegiate Church and Cathedral, 1421 to the present, pp. 424 - 447Publisher: Manchester University PressFirst published in: 2026
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