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 . he coffin-tomb of William Rufus. Two other copedcoffins of the twelfth century were also found, at the same time, atBakewell; one of which is ornamented horizontally with zig-zaglines, the other with vertical ones, in such a manner as to conveythe idea of the tiling of a Portions of the lids of copedtombs, of precisely similar character with those
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 . he coffin-tomb of William Rufus. Two other copedcoffins of the twelfth century were also found, at the same time, atBakewell; one of which is ornamented horizontally with zig-zaglines, the other with vertical ones, in such a manner as to conveythe idea of the tiling of a Portions of the lids of copedtombs, of precisely similar character with those at Bakewell, havebeen found, and are still preserved at Bedale, in Again,at Dewsbury, in the same county, there is another remarkable ex-ample of this same class of the coped tombs, of very early the city of York itself also, when some workmen were recentlyremoving the foundations of part of the old church of St. Dyonis 1 See Bateman\s Derbyshire, p. 184 :also Journal of Archaeological Association,vol. ii. p. 303. The figures of the Saxonmonuments at Bakewell here given have been engraved from very careful drawingsmade expressly for this work. 2 See Archaeological Journal, vol. 258. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 13. Fragments of Coped Coffin-lids of the Xllth century,Bakewell, Derbyshire. in Walmgate, another coped lid of an Anglo-Saxon stone coffinwas discovered, and with it several fragments of other monumentalstones. This Saxon relic, like its companion memorial at Bake- 14 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS well, measures in length threefeet four inches, and is pro-fusely ornamented with figuresof strange animals, which areno less strangely mixed upwith scrolls and knot-work:the ridge of the coping also(which here forms an anglemuch less acute than at Bake-well), and the sides and endsof the stone, are traversed bya twisted molding. Originallythis must have been an elabo-rate specimen of the monu-mental sculpture of the times,but now it is much worn andinjured : its ge
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