Robert Sherborne was bishop of Chichester

Bishop of Chichester

The Bishop of Chichester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers the Counties of East and West Sussex. The see is in the City of Chichester where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity...

, from 1508 to 1536.

Sherborne was Dean of St. Paul's, from 1499 to 1505. From 1505 to 1508 he was bishop of St Davids.

Sherborne was a patron of the artist Lambert Bernard, commissioning several series of mural

Mural

A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface. A particularly distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.-History:Murals of...

s from him.. He founded the Free Grammar School in Rolleston, around 1520. It continued to 1909.

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