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 . Durham is another fine example,a slab of black marble nearly seven feet in length. The staff ishere placed on the dexter side of the cross-stem ; and on the otherside, at the head of the slab, appear the chalice and wafer. 58 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS A fragment of an incised slab yet remaining at the hospitalof St. Mary, Newcastle, shews thefigures of both cha
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 . Durham is another fine example,a slab of black marble nearly seven feet in length. The staff ishere placed on the dexter side of the cross-stem ; and on the otherside, at the head of the slab, appear the chalice and wafer. 58 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS A fragment of an incised slab yet remaining at the hospitalof St. Mary, Newcastle, shews thefigures of both chalice and paten, asif incorporated into the stem of thecross. It is probable, however, thatit was intended to convey the ideathat the chalice and paten were rest-ing upon the stem of the cross. Thepaten, which in this curious exampleis circular, is placed above the cha-lice, and by its side a smaller circlerepresents the host or Upon another fragment atthe same place, the chalice and waferare both represented on the dexterside of the cross, and the paten isomitted. In the very interestingfragment of another monumentalstone, lately discovered beneath thefloor of the church at Sproatley in the East Riding of Yorkshire,. Fragments of Monumental Andrews, Newcastle. St. Marys, Newcastle. the chalice is so placed as to appear partly resting upon the stemof the cross, and above it is a hand holding a paten charged with 1 See Archceol. Journal, vol. v. p. 253.
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