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 . C. 1200. Stone Coffin-lid, Weston,near Bath. c. 1300. Fragment of Stone Coffin-lid, Priory of St. Bartholomew inscribed slab, upon which the legend is seen to be cut towards theedge of the stone, but it is not continued to form a border to the 1 Sec the Gentlemans May. for the year1827, p. 593, where two other early in-scribed slabs, discovered i
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 . C. 1200. Stone Coffin-lid, Weston,near Bath. c. 1300. Fragment of Stone Coffin-lid, Priory of St. Bartholomew inscribed slab, upon which the legend is seen to be cut towards theedge of the stone, but it is not continued to form a border to the 1 Sec the Gentlemans May. for the year1827, p. 593, where two other early in-scribed slabs, discovered in the ruins ofEllerton Priory in Yorkshire, are de- scribed and figured. 2 See Add. MSS. British Museum, 6729 ;and Gentlemans Magazine for the year1783. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 39 entire composition. It will be also observed, that here the inscrip-tion stands upon the upper surface of the stone. This is anotherspecimen of the monumental slabs of the Early English Gothicperiod. The next example to which T refer is a fragment 1843 on the site of the Priory of St. Bartholomew in London,which has a border-legend properly so called. This legend isplaced in the hollow chamfer which is worked about the edges ofthe This positio
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