While Salisbury Cathedral may be austere (to me), the same cannot be said of the exuberant Hertford Monument, the tomb of Edward Seymour and Lady Catherine Grey. Catherine was sister to Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England for nine days in 1553 before her execution aged 17 in 1554. Her figure has all the wide and wild-eyed exoticism of a Wodaabe charm dancer.
Photo: Catherine Grey, Hertford memorial, Salisbury Cathedral, November 2011
The cathedral guidebook says this is Katherine Mompesson, lying next to her husband Sir Richard. The Seymour tomb is a multistorey affair elsewhere in the cathedral.
Oops, sorry. I seem to remember taking the picture very quickly at the time and only later trying to identify the subject, obviously unsuccessfully. Many thanks for the correction.