Border War

DRAWN against a Welsh team today.

Wales Cymru v England 3
Rudy van Kemenade (1934) v Richard Freeman (1987)
Charles Higgie (1924) v David Tucker (1898)
Lee Davis (1892) v Tim Spanton (1800)
Anthony Hughes (1850) v Robert Kane (1723)

This stone lion on a doorway dates from a tenement built in 1551 by Świdnica Mayor Erasmus Freund, who put a likeness of his wife above the creature*

The lion is part of a pair, whose bodies unite to form a single head

On the opposite side of the doorway is another pair of lions, with a likeness of Freund above

These bulls on a building on the outskirts of the old town are a more dramatic example of the same sculptural technique

*Information from the 2020 book Detale Zabytków Świdnicy.