Abstract
The tomb of Bishop Giles de Bridport (d. 1262) in Salisbury Cathedral illuminates a transitional period of 13th-century English sepulchral art. The carvers of the tomb experimented with newly fashionable naturalistic foliage while still practicing traditional “stiff-leaf” forms; for drapery style they chose not the early 13th-century narrow folds but more up-to-date broad folds; they borrowed ornamental details for tracery and leaves from new work at Westminster Abbey, yet built a monument that may have been a local Salisbury design. Eight narrative reliefs that apparently illustrate the life of Bishop Bridport were added to the tomb. The article suggests an underlying theme in this biographical narrative that may help explain its appearance in the 1260's.
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