The medieval ones are carved in wood, with the features made from plaster or gesso. The later effigies have wax heads and hands with bodies of wood or soft materials. The early wooden effigies were ...

He was the first Tudor monarch, the king who vanquished Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field. So when Henry VII died ...

The black marble effigy of Abbot Gilbert Crispin is now under an arch beneath the stone bench of the south cloister of Westminster Abbey. This is the oldest effigy at the Abbey and survived through ...