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Christian monuments in England and Wales; an historical and descriptive sketch of the various classes of sepulchral monuments which have been in use ... conquest to the time of Edward the Fourth - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...Durham. 1 The sheep is found placed, to denote their profession, at the feet of many effi gies of these merchants; as in the brass of John Forty (a.d. 1458), at Northleach in Gloucestershire, whose feet are represented us resting upon a sheep and a wool-pack. The wool-pack was often used in this manner at the feet of effigies of deceased merchants. It occurs again at Northleach, also at Cirencester, at Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, at Linwood in Lincolnshire, in the church of AUHallows-Barking in London, &c. 2 See Sepulchral Monuments, vol. i. p. cix.; and vol. ii. introduction, p. cxv. 3 See Monumental Drosses and Slabs, p. 121. See Waller's Monumental Brasses. 5 See Section III.; see also Waller's Drosses. pavement at the east end of Great Milton church in Oxfordshire. This slab, which in length measures 6 feet 9 inches, is composed of Purbeck marble, and bears a richly floriated cross of the first half of the thirteenth century, resting upon the figure of the holy Lamb. The Lamb itself is looking upwards, and has its head encircled with a nimbus.1 Another fine example of a cross supported by the Agnus Dei is preserved at Tewkesbury Abbey;2 and in Merton College chapel is a well-known brass, consisting of a tall bracket with two effigies and a canopy, at the foot of which the Agnus Dei again appears.3 Before passing on to the consideration of other personal, professional, or official emblems upon monumental slabs, I must describe particularly one other knightly memorial, which is preserved in the chancel of the church at Haltwhistle in Northumberland. This singularly interesting and most expressive monument bears, on either side of a cross flory, the sword and shield of a knight, and a pilgrim's staff and scrip--devices designed, as it would seem, t...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235903346
- ISBN 13 9781235903342
- BindingPaperback
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