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...supplied the new-found piety of the survivors with miniature bas-reliefs and statuettes of the Passion, Thomas à Becket, the lives of the saints, and the bleeding head of John the Baptist (see cut). The panels were carved from soft, creamy alabaster quarried at Tutbury and Chellaston Hill, then were painted, gilded, and generally built into wooden boxes with hinged doors for private worshipers to part...
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