. The Archaeological journal. ion, but very valuable as regards their authenticoriginality. The cross-legged effigy of Sir Walter de Dunstanvill, now inthe A ?< v church at Shrewsbury, appears amongst the illustrations of theBecond volume ; he took active part in the affairs of the times of Henry died, probably at Wbmbridge Priory, having retired from the world inthe reign of Cceur de Lion, about 1195. As examples of sculpture in theNorman period we may invite attention to the curious baptismal fonts inthis part of England ; of two, at Linley and at Morville, parishes closelyadjacent
. The Archaeological journal. ion, but very valuable as regards their authenticoriginality. The cross-legged effigy of Sir Walter de Dunstanvill, now inthe A ?< v church at Shrewsbury, appears amongst the illustrations of theBecond volume ; he took active part in the affairs of the times of Henry died, probably at Wbmbridge Priory, having retired from the world inthe reign of Cceur de Lion, about 1195. As examples of sculpture in theNorman period we may invite attention to the curious baptismal fonts inthis part of England ; of two, at Linley and at Morville, parishes closelyadjacent in the neighbourhood of Bridgnorth, Mr. Byton lias enabled us togive the accompanying representations. They present a greater similarity indesign than is usually found in productions of a period when repetition orimitation seems to have been sedulously avoided. The south door atLinley Chapel is not less deserving of notice than its font (see woodcut) andmore especially the vortical herring bone work with which the tympanum. ? it filled in so unusual a manner, At Morville there wa a collegiate foun and the font maj po iblj be a relique of that age i the church pr< ent I Norman work, hut great part of the fabric be referred to that int Pran itional period, when the pure Norman ityle wa ix \ for the Gothic which succeeded
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