. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English architecture . 00 ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE suppose, when they are about to make anunearthly noise) so as to change its voiceand frighten the shepherds by its curioustones. It is thought that there is a carvingof a wolf on a Norman tympanum at Stockton,Worcester. His head is to be seen on thecorners of the fonts of South Wootton andToftrees, and also on a similar font atShernborne. All these three churches are inNorfolk. 113 CHAPTER VII THE CHARADRIUS, COCK AND HEN, DOVE In the Vulgate and Septuagint versions ofDeut. xiv. 18 the Jews we
. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English architecture . 00 ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE suppose, when they are about to make anunearthly noise) so as to change its voiceand frighten the shepherds by its curioustones. It is thought that there is a carvingof a wolf on a Norman tympanum at Stockton,Worcester. His head is to be seen on thecorners of the fonts of South Wootton andToftrees, and also on a similar font atShernborne. All these three churches are inNorfolk. 113 CHAPTER VII THE CHARADRIUS, COCK AND HEN, DOVE In the Vulgate and Septuagint versions ofDeut. xiv. 18 the Jews were forbidden to eatthe flesh of the charadrrus among otherbirds. Liddell and Scott write of the chara-drius as being a stone curlew, or thick-kneedbustard, which is very greedy. The sight of itwas supposed by the Greeks to cure the jaun-dice. In the Bestiaries this bird is drawn likea white thrush or plover, though in somecases it is represented as a huge bird withcurly feathers, and long neck as in themutilated Bestiary in the British Museum(Vit. D. 1). The charadr
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