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 . D. 1220 XIIIth Century. Stone Coffin-lid. Little Casterton, Rutland. Stone Coffin lid, Lyddington. is a numerous series of the lids of stone coffins, some in a toler-ably perfect condition, and others much worn and mutilated. Iam enabled to give a figure of one of the most perfect specimens,upon which is sculptured an elaborate cross-flory of uncommo


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 . D. 1220 XIIIth Century. Stone Coffin-lid. Little Casterton, Rutland. Stone Coffin lid, Lyddington. is a numerous series of the lids of stone coffins, some in a toler-ably perfect condition, and others much worn and mutilated. Iam enabled to give a figure of one of the most perfect specimens,upon which is sculptured an elaborate cross-flory of uncommon ft IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 23 and somewhat singular design: this example is also to be assignedto the first Gothic period. Other elaborate specimens of thecoffin-slabs of the same architectural period are preserved in the. in TINS 5° , Llanvair Cwmmwd. churches at Barnwell and Raunds, in Northamptonshire; at Wig-ston Magna, Leicestershire; at Muchelney, in Somersetshire; and 24 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS at Llanvair Cwmmwd, in Anglesey: the last-named fine slab isnow placed vertically in thenor thwall of the Inaddition to these, I must spe-cify one other good example,now lying buried at some littledepth beneath the pavement ofthe Temple Church in London,but which was without doubtoriginally intended to form apart of the pavement of thatmost interesting edifice: thecross which is incised uponthis memorial is remarkablefor the strictly architecturalcharacter of its In the Early English Gothicperiod, the more ancient prac-tice of sloping off the ends ofstone coffin-lids, as well astheir sides, continued to beoccasionally adopted. Thisarrangement is exemplified bythe fine specimen of this classof monument in the TempleChurch, London. The ridgeof the coping of this coffin-lid,


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