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 . esbury Abbey ;2 andin Merton College chapel is a well-knownbrass, consisting of a tall bracket with twoeffigies and a canopy, at the foot of whichthe Agnus Dei again Before passing on to the considera-tion of other personal, professional, orofficial emblems upon monumental slabs,I must describe particularly one otherknightly memorial, which is p
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 . esbury Abbey ;2 andin Merton College chapel is a well-knownbrass, consisting of a tall bracket with twoeffigies and a canopy, at the foot of whichthe Agnus Dei again Before passing on to the considera-tion of other personal, professional, orofficial emblems upon monumental slabs,I must describe particularly one otherknightly memorial, which is preserved inthe chancel of the church at Haltwhistlein Northumberland. This singularly in-teresting and most expressive monumentbears, on either side of a cross flory, thesword and shield of a knight, and a pil-grims staff and scrip—devices designed,as it would seem, to denote that the in-dividual thus commemorated was a sol-dier who, in after-life, had gone on somereligious pilgrimage, and who desired thatthe slab which should cover his remains, wThen the pilgrimage of human life should have been brought to itsclose, should commemorate his knightly rank by his good swordand his shield with its armorial blazonry; and by the scrip and. Stone Coffin-lid,Great Mijton. 1 This fine slab is figured by Gough inhis first volume, p. cix.; also by the Ox-ford Architectural Society in their Guideto the Churches in the neighbourhood of Oxford, p. See Section III. 8 See Monumental Brasses of England. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 79 staff should indicate those higher aspirations which had directedhis steps, as life advanced, from the battle-field to some distantshrine. Long ago have this knights bones been dust,And his good sword rust:His soul is with the saints, we
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