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 . talslabs. Good examples occur upon anincised slab at Tempsford in Bedford-shire ; in the south aisle of the choir ofEly cathedral, upon a slab despoiled ofits brasses ; and upon the slab now bear-ing the brasses of Lady Marnay and hertwo husbands, at Little Horkesley inEssex. 1 See Carters Ancient Architecture,plate lix. 2 See cut at p. 55 ; see also Spec
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 . talslabs. Good examples occur upon anincised slab at Tempsford in Bedford-shire ; in the south aisle of the choir ofEly cathedral, upon a slab despoiled ofits brasses ; and upon the slab now bear-ing the brasses of Lady Marnay and hertwo husbands, at Little Horkesley inEssex. 1 See Carters Ancient Architecture,plate lix. 2 See cut at p. 55 ; see also Specimensof Ancient Church Plate, &c. 3 See cut at p. 55; see also Add. Museum,67*29 ;Archceol. Journal,\o\.v. p. 76; and Gent. Mag. vol. xxxv. 4 See Surtees Durham, vol. iv. p. 82. 5 See Archceol. Journal, vol. v. p. pastoral-staff held by a hand appearsto have been a common device on the con-tinent, upon the monumental slabs of dig-nified ecclesiastics. It appears on a tombof a bishop who died 1138 at , several other examples are men-tioned by Gough as existing in Sepulchral Monuments, vol. ii. cxiv. There is another good slab of anabbot or prior at Blanchland in To face p. 56 IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 57 rank inferior to a bishop or abbot, is the sacramental , either the paten or the consecrated wafer accom-panies the chalice. In other examples, again, with the chaliceappears a book. The chalice is but rarely seen upon the same
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