The first English carved stone cadaver or transi monuments appear in the early 15th century. A subset were located on double-decker tombs, many still complete with biers displaying on the top level the recumbent effigy of the commemorated au vif and on the bottom level an effigy au mort. Forty-nine complete or partial carved transi effigies survive in England from the period to 1558, twenty-one of them part of double-decker monuments. To this corpus can now be added a lost carved double-decker example from St Peter’s church in Bristol, which was gutted by bombing in the Second World War.

Old photographs, drawings and church notes establish that the person commemorated by the cadaver tomb was an armigerous member of the Norton family of upwardly mobile merchants who occupied the Great House by St Peter’s church. From 1435 they had an established tradition of burial within the church, with four generations buried here during the period when the double-decker tomb was likely to have been commissioned. Stylistic comparisons with other cadaver monuments suggest that the effigy formerly at St Peter’s church most likely commemorates Thomas I (d. 1435) or Thomas II (d. 1449), probably the latter. This is early for such a cutting-edge monument, especially to a layman.

第一个英国雕刻的石制尸体或transi纪念碑出现在 15 世纪初。一个子集位于双层墓葬上，许多墓葬仍然完整，顶层展示着被纪念的au vif的横卧雕像，底层展示着au mort的雕像。从 1558 年到 1558 年期间，英格兰有49 座完整或部分雕刻的transi肖像，其中 21 座是双层纪念碑的一部分。现在可以在这个语料库中添加一个丢失的雕刻双层示例，该示例来自布里斯托尔的圣彼得教堂，该教堂在第二次世界大战中被轰炸摧毁。

旧照片、图画和教堂笔记表明，尸体坟墓所纪念的人是诺顿家族的一名好战成员，诺顿家族是向上流动的商人，他们占据了圣彼得教堂旁边的大房子。从 1435 年开始，他们就有了在教堂内埋葬的既定传统，在双层坟墓可能已投入使用期间，有四代人被埋葬在这里。与其他尸体纪念碑的风格比较表明，以前在圣彼得教堂的肖像很可能是为了纪念托马斯一世（卒于 14​​35 年）或托马斯二世（卒于 14​​49 年），很可能是后者。对于这样一座尖端的纪念碑来说，这还为时过早，尤其是对于外行来说。