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 . Yorkshire is 1 The chalices in these two slabs atJervalx Abbey have the appearance ofresting upon the cross-stem. They areboth figured in Whittakers Richmond-shire, vol. i. pp. 423, 424. From the in-scription upon these slabs, it is evidentthat William Callay, the ecclesiastic thuscommemorated, was an artist of no com-mon merit. The tabula which he is re-
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 . Yorkshire is 1 The chalices in these two slabs atJervalx Abbey have the appearance ofresting upon the cross-stem. They areboth figured in Whittakers Richmond-shire, vol. i. pp. 423, 424. From the in-scription upon these slabs, it is evidentthat William Callay, the ecclesiastic thuscommemorated, was an artist of no com-mon merit. The tabula which he is re- corded to have constructed, was an orna-mental appendage to the altar, used onlyon occasions of high solemnity, and formedof the richest materials and with the mostelaborate workmanship. See Du Cange,Glossarium, in voce Tabula ; see alsoArchceologia, vol. xxx. p. 144, where isa description of a magnificent tabula ofwrought gold, with an engraving. The 64 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS another good specimen of this mode of placing the chalice ; but thisslab bears no inscription. Upon one of the coped slabs at Bake-well in Derbyshire, the chalice is incised on the ridge of the coping,and the stem of the cross is omitted There are two. Monumental Slabs, Corbridge. Northumberland. slabs in Corbridge Church in Northumberland, upon which thechalice is thus placed. Above the chalice, in one of these examples,the paten is introduced. The cross-head has been cut away from c turme, in the greater religious houses,were small companies of monks, who suc-ceeded each other in performing divineoffices without intermission. Of these it may be inferred from this singular inscrip-tion that there were no fewer than twelveat Jervalx. 1 See Archceol. Journal, vol. iv. p. 50. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 65 the upper part of this slab, in order, as it would seem, to make thesurface of the stone smooth. Again, in the church of All Saintsin the city of York, a chalice in a similar position is sculpturedup
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