Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . n dealing with the figure in the Lombard school,and it is only fair to say, that these figures (Plate CLVII I)at WoRDWELL in Suffolk are not much worse than thoseat Cividale in Friuli\ The Norman attempts at animals are not muchbetter : they are generally grotesque lions treated herald-ically with tails that branch into foliage, barbarous enough,and showing but little promise at first of future the tympanum at Stow Longa, Huntingdonshire(Plate CLIX), there is a queer figure of a mermaid,with on one side an animal apparently mounting apedest
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . n dealing with the figure in the Lombard school,and it is only fair to say, that these figures (Plate CLVII I)at WoRDWELL in Suffolk are not much worse than thoseat Cividale in Friuli\ The Norman attempts at animals are not muchbetter : they are generally grotesque lions treated herald-ically with tails that branch into foliage, barbarous enough,and showing but little promise at first of future the tympanum at Stow Longa, Huntingdonshire(Plate CLIX), there is a queer figure of a mermaid,with on one side an animal apparently mounting apedestal or altar, and on the other what seems to be anAgnus Dei. It is attempted to read a symbolic meaningin these sculptures, but without much success. That atWordwell has been variously interpreted to mean thesacrament of marriage, Christ giving the benediction, orEdward the Confessor and the pilgrim, and the same 1 I have to thank Mr Keyser for Plates CLVIII, CLIX, and CLX fromhis work on Norman Tyinpana and Lintels in Great Britain. > / ^
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