What is recorded here

Graveslab in Timolin is a two-metre limestone slab carving a knight behind a large shield, cut around 1200 for Robert FitzRichard and later moved from the graveyard into the Protestant church in 1907. He is remembered as the founder of the local Arroasian convent, while the stone itself survived burial, weather and changing worship to keep his shape visible.

Fine carboniferous limestone effigy (L 2m), in bas-relief, showing a knight covered by a large shield, of late twelfth or early thirteenth century date, thought to represent Robert FitzRichard who founded a convent (KD036-025002-) for Arroasian nuns in Timolin c. 1200. Was in the graveyard (KD036-025007-), but was moved into the Protestant church in 1907 (JKAS 1891-5, 149; ibid 1908, 368-9; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 89) Date of upload: 5 September 2016

Romanesque gravestone; late 12th to early 13th century. It is significant as a rare effigy monument associated with the early medieval religious foundation established by Robert FitzRichard.

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