. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE me last of whom came from the Purbeck quarries and made the shafts, capitals and rings (verg. capit. et anul.). The stone was brought from Caen and the total cost was £95.* The cross is a fine specimen of architecture of the 13th century, although the four basement steps and the two upper stages are modern, having been extensively restored, and, indeed, almost wholly rebuilt in 1833 under the direction of Mr. W. B. Clark, and again, the soft Bath stone having decayed, in 1887-9 b7 Mr- C- E- Ponting- T
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE me last of whom came from the Purbeck quarries and made the shafts, capitals and rings (verg. capit. et anul.). The stone was brought from Caen and the total cost was £95.* The cross is a fine specimen of architecture of the 13th century, although the four basement steps and the two upper stages are modern, having been extensively restored, and, indeed, almost wholly rebuilt in 1833 under the direction of Mr. W. B. Clark, and again, the soft Bath stone having decayed, in 1887-9 b7 Mr- C- E- Ponting- The lowest stage is original. It i» hexagonal with panels of two ' lights,' having tracery in pointed heads undfr crocketed gables with finials, set against a diapered. Old House, Chesh background which is surmounted by a sculptured cornice very much weathered. In the panels are shields suspended from foliage and carved with the arms of England, Castile and Leon, and Ponthieu. At the angles are small pinnacled buttresses. The second stage has six elaborately gabled and crocketed with pinnacles between them. They con- tain three statues of the queen, said to be original except the head of that on the west, which has been renewed. The third stage, which is also hexagonal, rises from a plinth set in the space inclosed by the heads of the * Arch, nii, 1 i+ Extract!. canopies below it, and masked on the centre of each side by tall heavy crocketed pinnacles with finials not too happily designed. The plinth has 3 foliated cornice at its base, and the panels on the sides of the stage, with the buttresses at the angles, arc of 1 design practically repeating that of the canopies of the second stage, but solid. Above this ii 1 low hexagonal plinth supporting a tall pinnacle, crocketed on its six angles, and surmounted by a cross. Practi- cally the whole of the second stage 19 of the restora- tion of 1833, and the upper stages are also very much renovated. The general feature* of
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