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 . Monumental Slab,Billesford, Leicestershire. LlandafF Cathedral is another monumental stone, which bears anelegant cross flory below two heads : the slab has also a border-legend. And again, at Bredon in Worcestershire, amongst thenumerous monuments of great interest with which the church 1 See Archceologia Cambrensis* vol. ii. p. 321. IN ENGLAND AND WALES
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 . Monumental Slab,Billesford, Leicestershire. LlandafF Cathedral is another monumental stone, which bears anelegant cross flory below two heads : the slab has also a border-legend. And again, at Bredon in Worcestershire, amongst thenumerous monuments of great interest with which the church 1 See Archceologia Cambrensis* vol. ii. p. 321. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 135 abounds, is a very remarkable slab, recently discovered, which hasbeen now placed on the southern side of the chancel. Towardsthe upper part of the slab appear, carved in bold relief, the bustsof a civilian and his wife beneath a rich double canopy; and im-mediately below these busts are the transverse arms of a crucifix,. Monumental Slab,Silchester Churchyard, Hampshire. which is of slender proportions, and raguly or ragged throughout;the base of the crucifix is cut to a ridge above the flat face of thestone; and this singular composition is completed by the smallfigures of two doves, which appear to rise from above the head ofthe Saviour. The whole is elaborately sculptured, and was appa- 136 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS rently executed about the middle of the fourteenth Inincised slabs of this class the cross is also placed in some examplesbelow the partial effigy; as inthe slabs at Lympley Stoke inWiltshire, upon two of whichis engraven a head only, restingupon a cushion, and a cross ;while upon a third specimen,the bust and arms of the figureare I am not ableto refer to any brass yet in ex-istence which will exemplify thissame arrangement in its compo-sition. It is evident, however,from several despoiled slabs, thatbrasses of this character were oc-casionally in use. In the northaisl
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