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 . Stono Coffin-lid, Gillinfi, ?y . .. Coffin blab, Rhuddlan, Denbighshire. cuted the monument. At Gilling in Yorkshire, and at Rhuddlanin Denbighshire, are two other slabs, upon which the same militarydevice is apparent. Of these, the former monument is executedentirely in relief, and is remarkable for the elegance of its inter-laced cross-head. In the latt
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 . Stono Coffin-lid, Gillinfi, ?y . .. Coffin blab, Rhuddlan, Denbighshire. cuted the monument. At Gilling in Yorkshire, and at Rhuddlanin Denbighshire, are two other slabs, upon which the same militarydevice is apparent. Of these, the former monument is executedentirely in relief, and is remarkable for the elegance of its inter-laced cross-head. In the latter the sword and the stem of the crossare incised, and the cross-head is produced in apparent relief, after IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 71 the manner already exemplified in several other specimens. AtThormanby, also in Yorkshire, is a slab of great beauty, uponwhich both the cross and the sword are entirely expressed by in-cised lines. Another incised slab at Rhuddlan, now affixed to the. i, Rhuddlan Priory. wall of the Priory, bears a sword with a cross raguly, and a interesting memorial has suffered much from both time andwanton injury, as may be inferred from the accompanying same device, the sword, is found on some of the Bakewellslabs. It occurs again at Kirkby Stephen in Westmoreland ; at 72 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS Gainford, and at many other places in the county of Durham; atGarstang in Lancashire ; upon slabs yet preserved amidst the ruinsof Kirkstall and Furness Abbeys; and again at Bassenthwaite, Ir-thington, and Dereham, all in Cumberland, it may be seen, and ineach instance it is accompanied with a I have already mentioned two slabs, upon each of which thereappears a bugle-horn with the cross and sword; also a third (atBowes in Yorkshire), which has the further addition of two bow-staves. At Papplewick in Nottinghamshire, another slab, withoutdoubt the memorial of some forester or forest-ranger of Sherwood,bears on either side o
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