Black Tournai marble tomb of Thomas Audley, Baron Walden, Lord Chancellor of England from 1533 to 1544.
Simon Jenkins quotes Thomas Fuller's "Worthies of England" (1662) as saying that the marble was "not blacker than the soul, or harder than the heart, of the man whose bones lie beneath it". Whatever the justice (or otherwise) of this comment, it is somewhat ironic that his tomb now finds itself wedged between cupboards and filing cabinets!
South Chapel (now the vestry), St Mary's church, Saffron Walden, Essex
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