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St Mary's has small carvings of the heads of Kings and Queens around the outside. Cromwell's head appears on the north porch, and the series continues to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on the south porch.
It is ironic that the first image of Cromwell on a public building, appears on a High Anglican Church at a time when the service for the Martyrdom of Charles I was still in the Book of Common Prayer in use inside the building.
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Cromwell's bust, St Mary's
Church, Bicton. The image is copied from prints after a painting by
Samuel Cooper. The image seems so unlikely in such a setting that its
identification as Cromwell is queried locally, but without doubt it is
Cromwell's face which is represented. (Mike George).
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