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 . 0. V225Small Slab, Tadcaster, York. 1 See the figures given in the oppositepage. These small slabs have been consi-dered to be the memorials of of the Bakewell slabs do not mea-sure more than three feet in length. Thisis the case also with several of the slabsat Lympley Stoke, and at other places. Oth
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 . 0. V225Small Slab, Tadcaster, York. 1 See the figures given in the oppositepage. These small slabs have been consi-dered to be the memorials of of the Bakewell slabs do not mea-sure more than three feet in length. Thisis the case also with several of the slabsat Lympley Stoke, and at other places. Other examples of small slabs will hedescribed and figured in the subsequentpages of this volume. In some instances a very small crosshas been observed, cut upon a slab of thecustomary size. A remarkable exampleof such a slab is preserved in the cloistersof Lincoln^Cathedra). IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 35 A brief Inscription was at an early period added to thecross-symbol upon the lids of stone coffins and other sepulchralslabs. And again, in many other examples of the same class of. ? Sussex. Small Slab, St. Michaels Church,lich field. monuments, the cross (sometimes with, sometimes without a le-gend) was accompanied by some emblem of the rank or vocationof the deceased: as, a pastoral staff, to indicate a bishop or abbot;a chalice, paten, and book, a priest; a sword, a knight or man-at-arms ; a bow and bugle-horn, a woodsman; a square, an architector mason ; a pair of shears, a wool-merchant; an axe, a carpenter,&c. Shields of arms also, and other heraldic insignia, were in likemanner occasionally introduced. From these personal and professional symbols upon early monu-mental stones, the various punning devices or rebusses of names,so generally adopted at a somewhat later period, may be evidently 36 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS derived; and, in like manner, the earlier monumental symbols maybe themselves deduced from a simi-lar practice, adopted in their monu-ments by the Christians of the fi
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