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 . Slab. Fragment of Slab, ilargam. the stem of the cross. I know but one other instance of the samecoffin-slab bearing two staves, and this other is in the crypt ofRochester Cathedral. Here the volutes of the staves meet in themiddle, and curling outwards from each other toward the sides ofthe slab, they impart a cruciform aspect to the entire comp
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 . Slab. Fragment of Slab, ilargam. the stem of the cross. I know but one other instance of the samecoffin-slab bearing two staves, and this other is in the crypt ofRochester Cathedral. Here the volutes of the staves meet in themiddle, and curling outwards from each other toward the sides ofthe slab, they impart a cruciform aspect to the entire Thornton Abbey is a slab from which a pastoral-staff in brasshas been torn away, with border-fillets for the legend, and plates 1 This arrangement is very is a fine specimen of it upon a slabin the church of St. Magnus, Orkney. SeeArchcBologia Cambrensis, vol. iii. p. 39. 2 See Gentlemans Mag. for 1837, part ii. p. 248. This slab was found 1833beneath the chapel of St. William. Atthe smaller end, part of the stone has beencut away, apparently in order to adapt itto the form of a pillar. See cut at p. 52. 52 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS for the evangelistic emblems at the angles. In this example thestaff was set bend-wise upon t
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