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 . le day, shivered the alabaster ofher Here the epitaph breaks off abruptly; but there can be nodoubt that, when perfect, it contained some allusion to the soul, asthe precious ointment contained in the alabaster box of her body,and corresponding with the balsama morum before the exception of the fracture at the lower end, this mo
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 . le day, shivered the alabaster ofher Here the epitaph breaks off abruptly; but there can be nodoubt that, when perfect, it contained some allusion to the soul, asthe precious ointment contained in the alabaster box of her body,and corresponding with the balsama morum before the exception of the fracture at the lower end, this monument 48 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS is in excellent preservation ; and, unless it be wantonly injured, itwill last for centuries, to attest the skill, the good taste, and thegratitude of the monks of This slab may be assigned toabout the year 1250, during the reign of Henry III.; and it wouldappear to have been first laid down in the chapter-house of theConventual Church at Lewes, at the time when the remains ofthe Earl and Countess De Warenne were removed (as it is evidentthat they were removed) to that spot from their original resting-place in the ancient Priory. The Princess Gundrada died atCastle Acre in Norfolk, May 27th, MAL Ipi, UTT1NC sc Inscription and Coffin-lid, Lewes. There is also preserved at Lewes another memorial too curious 1 See the Winchester Volume of the Archccologia, vol. xxxii p. 308 ; WatsonsArchceologicalAssociation, p. 312, and the History of the Earls of Warenne; andJournal of that Society, vol. i. p. 340* ; Goughs Monuments, vol. i. pp. 1 and 9. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 49 to be passed over without notice. This is an inscription cut uponfifteen stones, which were built into the wall about the sweep ofthe chancel-arch of the old church of St. John-sub-Castro, and noware inserted in an appropriate part of the new edifice by which thatancient church has been superseded. These stones still form anarch, and a coffin-lid bearing a cross with a double
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