St George To The Rescue

[poliphilo]

St George intervenes to rescue the crusader William Belet and his squire from the Saracens (at a  battle near Antioch in 1097) on the tympanum over the south door of St. George's Fordington, Dorchester. According to tradition the adoption of St George as England's patron saint can be dated from this incident.

Great story. Fabulous example of early medieval art.


 

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

That's an amazing piece of medieval sculpture.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Oh, forgot to say, the icon is a much more modern and hence anachronistic version of St George from Prauge.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Nice icon, whatever its age.

The Fordington tympanum is a masterpiece- and "nobody" knows its there.