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View full screenGreat helm placed above the tomb of Sir Richard Pembridge in Hereford Cathedral after his death in 1375: probably English, before 1375
A.1905.489
England, Northern Europe
14th century
Constructed from three plates of plain steel; the low conical crown-plate is overlapped by the truncated cone of the skull-plate, which is itself overlapped by the side-plate
Noel Paton Collection
Burlington Fine Arts Club
Pembridge, Richard, Sir, 1375 (d.)
Hereford (Hereford Cathedral), Herefordshire, England, Northern Europe
Window on the World (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
Britton, Beauties of England and Wales
Archaeologia Scotica, Part II, Vol. V
Baron de Cosson and W. Burges, Helmets and Mail, 1881
Gough, R., Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain, London, 1786-96, Vol. 1, p. 135
Norman, A.V.B., Arms and Armour in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, 1972, pp. 13-14
Spalding, D., ‘An unrecorded English helm of c.1370’, Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, IX, 1977, pp. 6-9
Norman, A.V.B., and Wilson, G.M., Treasures from the Tower of London, London, 1982, pp. 40-1
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