St Mary's Church in Hitchin is full of little gems such as this angel. I'm not sure if it's an original or a Victorian reproduction. If it is an original, then I'm surprised it survived the iconoclasts' destruction; But as Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews pointed out, they only pulled down statues of saints that people prayed to and not angels to which people didn't pray.

The beautiful south door of St Mary's Church in Hitchin shows just how the Iconoclasts did a 'good' job and destroyed nine statues that stood in the niches that are part of the doorway. However, they did not get the three figures at the very top. Presumably because they couldn't be pulled down or chiseled out. Just how much more imposing and beautiful would churches have been with all their statuary around and inside them; including the brightly painted walls with scenes of the saints and from the bible.