The body was taken on a chariot to Westminster Abbey on Tuesday 13 December, after dinner. There was a lifelike effigy of Mary on the chariot, possibly sculpted by Niccolo da Modena. The effigy survives but seems not to be of high quality.Philip Lindley, 'Mary Tudor', Anthony Harvey & Richard Mortimer, The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey (Boydell, 1994), p. 56. Some accounts of the funeral call the effigy a "representation" or "presentation", dressed in robes of state with a crown, orb and sceptre, the fingers richly set with rings.Francis Sandford, A genealogical history of the kings of England, and monarchs of Great Britain (London, 1677), p. 480 TNA SP Domestic Elizabeth vol. 1 no. 32 (SP 12/1 f.74).
