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Yes sorry, Fernando not his boy Thomas! Do you have a view on the survival of the St William’s carvings?
There is evidence of slighting in Ht Goodrumgate …
I’m late to the party here, but my understanding was that Thomas Fairfax forbade the slighting of statues or the destruction of glass in the Minster precinct during the parliamentary occupation in 1644, so any damage/removal would probably have been prior to this (or of course afterwards!). Hence the carvings remaining on St William’s college. There are remnants of ?animal statues in a couple of the niches, so possibly the statues just got weathered and were not replaced?
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