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 . ch commemoratesGriffithe Grante, is 1591. See Ar-chceologia Cambrcnsis, vol. ii. p. 318. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. In some few in-stances in brasses, thepartial effigy is foundto have been placedupon the monumentalcross, at the intersec-tion of its arms, in-stead of above it. Inthe chapel of MertonCollege, Oxford, is aportion of a slab whichstill retains
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 . ch commemoratesGriffithe Grante, is 1591. See Ar-chceologia Cambrcnsis, vol. ii. p. 318. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. In some few in-stances in brasses, thepartial effigy is foundto have been placedupon the monumentalcross, at the intersec-tion of its arms, in-stead of above it. Inthe chapel of MertonCollege, Oxford, is aportion of a slab whichstill retains part of sucha brass, while of someother parts it can shewbut the matrices. Thisis the memorial of Ri-chard de Hakebourne,Fellow, who died A de-spoiled slab, now lying-in the pavement of Abbey, shewsthat it once was inlaidwith a brass very near-ly resembling the onewhich I have last Again, inSalisbury Cathedral isthe matrix of a thirdbrass of the same now refer to the slab 1 This brass is incorrectlyattributed to Richard de Hartin my Monumental Brassesand Slabs, p. 115. It is alsofigured by Gough, vol. ii. in-troduction, p. cxvii. 2 This slab is twice figuredby Carter in his c. 1315.—Remains of Brass to Richard de HakeboctrneChapel of Merton College, Oxford. 138 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS which covers the rernains of Bishop Bingham, who died 1247,and was buried in his cathe-dral church. This slab liesupon a raised tomb beneatha rich architectural canopy,and it retains the outlines ofits lost brass, from which itappears that the half-figureof the deceased prelate hadbeen represented as restingupon a floriated cross. It issomewhat remarkable that thewhole pastoral-staff was intro-duced into this compositionwith the semi-effigy, and con-sequently the staff itself wasplaced beside the stem of The practice of placinghalf-figures above crosses, andupon them, in monumentalbrasses, led to the occasionaluse o
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