The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall . Bcvclojjcd fJan d to|> [from the rubbing] N CoPED Stone in Churchyard, EARLY CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS The opportunity must here be taken of publicly protesting against the disgraceful mannerin which the monuments have been neglected, mutilated, broken, and even destroyed, as canbe proved by a glance at my * List of purposes for which some of the Cornish Crosses, etc.,have been re-used. ^ This list occupies three pages, and contains about ninety have been used as gateposts, though only some fifteen of the most striking
The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall . Bcvclojjcd fJan d to|> [from the rubbing] N CoPED Stone in Churchyard, EARLY CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS The opportunity must here be taken of publicly protesting against the disgraceful mannerin which the monuments have been neglected, mutilated, broken, and even destroyed, as canbe proved by a glance at my * List of purposes for which some of the Cornish Crosses, etc.,have been re-used. ^ This list occupies three pages, and contains about ninety have been used as gateposts, though only some fifteen of the most striking examples aregiven under this head, eight cases of which will be found amongst the inscribed stones. Somefew have been rescued, but a great many more yet remain in use. It is impossible to comment too forcibly on this subject, especially as the partial destructionof our monuments is by no means a thing of the past, for only recently ^ we had to complainof the mutilation of a small and unique cross in Cardinham churchyard, because the sides ofits
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