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 . Stono Coffin-lid,Hambleton. Rutland. 1 See the cuts at p. 145, and at the he-ginning of this Section. 2 See Goughs Monuments, vol. ii. in-troduction, p. ex. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 145 Cilcain in the county of Flint bears the remains of the upper partof an effigy incised upon its surface: below, the stone is plain, with. Mural Arch and Serni-effigial Slab,
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 . Stono Coffin-lid,Hambleton. Rutland. 1 See the cuts at p. 145, and at the he-ginning of this Section. 2 See Goughs Monuments, vol. ii. in-troduction, p. ex. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 145 Cilcain in the county of Flint bears the remains of the upper partof an effigy incised upon its surface: below, the stone is plain, with. Mural Arch and Serni-effigial Slab, exterior of the Church, Great Casterton, Rutland. the exception of a border-legend comprising the words >J« . Meredith . Again, at a later period, appa-rently about the middle of the fifteenth century, in the church ofElford in Staffordshire, the upper and lower parts of a monumentalslab are removed, and in the openings thus produced are sculpturedthe corresponding portions of the effigy of some unknown Buslingthorpe in Lincolnshire, upon a coffin-shaped slab,there is preserved a semi-effigy in brass, representing a knight inchain-mail, with a plain surcoat and ailettes, his hands uplifted andholding a heart, and his head resting upon two pillows: the gaunt-lets are formed of small overlapping pieces of plate or thick is no guige, or weapon; but below the figure was a shield,which, with the single Lombardic letters of the border-legend, isnow lost. The legend itself may still be read, as follows :
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