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For many years, I have had a fascination with misericords, and it is my hope that this website will enable people who may either not know anything about misericords, or only know of a few examples to see the great variety that exist today.
As you have probably found, there are many sites out there that are either dedicated to one or two locations, or have misericords as a small subsection of of their site, I have gone to the opposite extreme, by ignoring, photographically almost all other features of these churches, cathedrals and colleges except for a few carvings or overview pictures. Other sites have very studious list of the “Corpus of Misericords”, I can only say that these are fascinating in their own right, but to my mind, do not give the immediacy of photos. A final group seem to be woodcarving sites, which although giving some great information on individual wood carvings or a misericord, do not give much contextual information and seem much more heavily aimed at carvers. I am not an historian, but an engineer with a passion for photography and misericords in particular. You may find my What Are Misericords page helpful.
I'd like to say a big thank you to Jim Umson, whose love of misericords, and great photography have added so much to this website.
I also need to thank another benefactress, who prefers to remain anonymous, for her gift of several thousand photos, which will enable me to add a further 60 or so sites and enhance many other pages, this should, eventually, give this misericords.co.uk a total of 140 sites.
With over 50 years of misericord photography between us, and having over 1300 misericord images uploaded so far, from almost 70 sites (with photos of at least another 75 sites still to add) I hope that this website will be regarded as the default resource for those researching misericords.
For ease of use, I have divided this site into misericords at Cathedrals in the UK, misericords at any UK sites other than Cathedrals which is then subdivided by region (apologies to those people who don’t think they are in a particular region) and misericords at any sites outside the UK
If you find that your church has misericords, but I haven't got them in my list or has already happened, if you find any mistakes in my numbering, or descriptions - there are times when I might be guilty of perpetuating a “Wiki myth”, please email me via the contacts page
Your primary resource for misericords from almost 70 worldwide sites.
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