Christian monuments in England and Wales : an historical and descriptive sketch of the various classes of sepulchral monuments which have been in use in this country from about the era of the Norman conquest to the time of Edward the Fourth . Fragment of Stone Coffin-lid,Romsey Abbey. a hand is carved, and part ofa sleeve, the hand supportinga In the twospecimens last named, thecross, as distinct from theemblem of the pastoral office,is omitted, and the staff occupies its place in the centre of the is also the case in the slab of Abbot Sutton at Dorchester in 1 See
Christian monuments in England and Wales : an historical and descriptive sketch of the various classes of sepulchral monuments which have been in use in this country from about the era of the Norman conquest to the time of Edward the Fourth . Fragment of Stone Coffin-lid,Romsey Abbey. a hand is carved, and part ofa sleeve, the hand supportinga In the twospecimens last named, thecross, as distinct from theemblem of the pastoral office,is omitted, and the staff occupies its place in the centre of the is also the case in the slab of Abbot Sutton at Dorchester in 1 See cut at p. 53. One of the Bakewell 2 See Sepulchral Monuments* vol. i. ;slabs bears a cross, which has for its head a and Thorotons Notts* vol. iii. p. of six points within a circle. 3 See Winch. Vol of Arch. Assoc. p. 420. Despoiled Slab of Abbot Sutton,Dorchester Abbey Church. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 55 Oxfordshire. The staff, with the hand which held it, with a border-legend, were in this monument all executed in brass; but the plateshave been long torn from the stone, leaving the character of the. Stone Coffin-lid, FJaxley Abbey. Stone Coffin lid, St. Pierre, near Chepstow. original composition to be inferred from the despoiled indent uponits Another slab, having a highly enriched cross, andalso a hand holding a pastoral-staff, is figured by Carter from 1 See Addingtons Dorchester Church,p. 14 ; also Goughs Monuments, wherethis slab is twice figured. The four smallcrosses which appear towards the four angles of this slab within the border-le-gend, indicate that the stone once wasconsecrated as an altar, or have no reference to the monu- 56 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS Romsey Abbey. The hand here appears to issue from the midstof the foliage, which is clustered upon the edges of the , at Flaxley Abbey in Gloucestershire, the lid of a stone-coffin is charged with the same device, a hand holding a In the singular stone
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