. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . ure prevents our ascertaining this. IfMr. Keysers interpretation, which we havefollowed, is correct, the hounds are unusuallylarge, far larger than the man. At Tutbury, Staffordshire, and little Lang-ford, Wiltshire, are other representations of aboar hunt. Two wild boars face one anotheron a perpendicular screen at Headcorn,Kent. The camel, and similar beasts, are fre-quently represented in manuscripts of allcountries in the British Museum and else-where. We have seen a camel carved on oneof the fine sixteenth centu
. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . ure prevents our ascertaining this. IfMr. Keysers interpretation, which we havefollowed, is correct, the hounds are unusuallylarge, far larger than the man. At Tutbury, Staffordshire, and little Lang-ford, Wiltshire, are other representations of aboar hunt. Two wild boars face one anotheron a perpendicular screen at Headcorn,Kent. The camel, and similar beasts, are fre-quently represented in manuscripts of allcountries in the British Museum and else-where. We have seen a camel carved on oneof the fine sixteenth century bench-ends ofSefton, Lanes ; where a rider is seated onhis back, and brandishes a short sword, orscimitar. A bactria or camel-like animal is drawnon the famous early fourteenth century mapof the world in Hereford Cathedral. Thisunique composition, which is scatteredthickly over with representations of animalsfrom the Bestiaries, with their appropriateinscriptions, was the work of a prebendary ofthe cathedral, who gives his name as Richardde Haldingham and de Laiford. 34.
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