Lot 1575
ENGLISH PROVINCIAL SCHOOL, 19th CENTURY
`REDCLIFF CHURCH, BRISTOL`: ST MARY REDCLIFFE
Inscribed with title, oil on canvas
53 x 71.5cm.
* The church is depicted without its spire, which fell after a lightning strike in 1446. It was not rebuilt until 1872. It was described by Queen Elizabeth 1 as `the fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in England`.