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Effigy in Temple Church is in Monumental Effigies of Great Britain.
THIS unappropriated bgure of an ecclesiastic lies under the south wall of the Temple Church, London [Map]. It is sculptured in a hard stone, in very sharp relief. He wears the pontifical mitre, gloves, and in his left hand is the pastoral staff which is swathed by an ornamental banda. He treads on a winged dragon. At the top of the Gothic niche in which he is placed are two supporting angels.
Note a. These bandages are represented as attached to the pastoral staves of Bishops, in the MSS. and monuments of this and the following periods of the middle age. The pastoral staff and the crosier, although often confounded, are distinct appendages. The crosier, or cross, is borne by the Archbishop; the pastoral staff, or shepherd's crook, by the Bishop, &c. "Next before the chariot went two men, bare-headed, in linen garments down to the foot, girt and shoes of blue velvet, who carried, the one a crosier, the other a pastoral staff^ like a sheep-hook." Bacon, New Atlantis.