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 . O. 1300. Xlllth Century. Coffin-slab of Griffith ap Jorworth, Stone Coffin-lid, St. Johns, BangorChester. Great Salkeld in Cumberland, with the addition of the monumental slab of Griffith ap Jorworth, a benefactor toBangor Friery, now built into the wall of the grammar-school atthat city, is a memorial no less beautiful than interesti
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 . O. 1300. Xlllth Century. Coffin-slab of Griffith ap Jorworth, Stone Coffin-lid, St. Johns, BangorChester. Great Salkeld in Cumberland, with the addition of the monumental slab of Griffith ap Jorworth, a benefactor toBangor Friery, now built into the wall of the grammar-school atthat city, is a memorial no less beautiful than interesting. It bears See Lysons Derbyshire. 2 See Lysons Cumberland. 70 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS a cross of most elegant design, which has on the dexter side of itsstem a sword, and on the sinister side a Latin legend in two linescut in relief in sunk labels. Below the legend is a small cruciformdevice within a circle, the mark probably of the sculptor who exe-. Stono Coffin-lid, Gillinfi, ?y . .. Coffin blab, Rhuddlan, Denbighshire. cuted the monument. At Gilling in Yorkshire, and at Rhuddlanin Denbighshire, are two other slabs, upon which the same militarydevice is apparent. Of these, the former monument is executedentirely in relief, and is remarkable for the elegance of its inter-laced cross-head. In the latter the sword and the stem of the crossare incised, and the cross-head is produced in apparent relief, after IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 71 the manner already exemplified in several other specimens. AtThormanby, also in Yorkshire, is a slab of great beauty, uponwhich both the cross and the sword are entirely expressed by in-cised lines. Another incised slab at Rhuddlan, now affixed to the
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