Oliver King was a Bishop of Exeter and Bishop of Bath and Wells who restored Bath Abbey after 1500.
Bath Abbey at sunset (December 2004)
Richard Foxe was an English churchman, the founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, and became also Lord Privy Seal.
Oliver King
…Oliver King Bishop of Bath and Wells Bath Abbey at sunset (December 2004) Appointed 6 November 1495 Term ended 29 August 1503 Predecessor Richard Foxe Successor Adriano de Castello Previous post Bishop of Exeter Orders Consecration 3 February 1493 Personal details Died 29 August 1503 Denomination Roman…
Richard Foxe, portrait after Johannes Corvus, late 16th century, National Portrait Gallery, London. At left are the arms of the See of Exeter impaling Foxe (Azure, a pelican in her piety or) at right are the arms of the See of Winchester impaling Foxe, the whole circumscribed by the Garter.
The crosier of Bishop Foxe, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Bishop Foxe at the deathbed of Henry VII at Richmond, 1509. The Bishop stands 1st. at Henry's left-hand, his armourials above. From a contemporary drawing by Sir Thomas Wriothesley. BL Add.MS 45131, f.54