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 . eat variety,both of design and enrich-ment, was introduced into thecomposition of these coffin-lidcrosses themselves; and theslabs were finished with bor-der - moldings. Towards theclose of the twelfth century,the graceful and rich foliageof the Early English period ofGothic architecture was em-ployed, and with the happiesteffect, in the decoration of the
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 . eat variety,both of design and enrich-ment, was introduced into thecomposition of these coffin-lidcrosses themselves; and theslabs were finished with bor-der - moldings. Towards theclose of the twelfth century,the graceful and rich foliageof the Early English period ofGothic architecture was em-ployed, and with the happiesteffect, in the decoration of thecoffin-lids and commemorativeslabs then executed. Of this afragment preserved at Elstow,in Bedfordshire, supplies asingularly beautiful and highlycharacteristic example. And so long as these memorials continuedin use, subsequent to the establishment of Gothic architecture,the crosses sculptured or incised upon them are found to partakeof the architectural characteristics, and also of the architecturalexcellences, of the time. The coffin-lid at Wood Perry, in Oxford- 1 In some examples the same design Keysoe, in Bedfordshire, upon a slahoccurs at the centre, as well as towards figured by Fisher,either extremity of the coffin-lid: as at. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 21 shire, exhibits an Early English Gothic design of the most In Narford Church, Norfolk, within a mural arch inthe chancel, is the stone coffin of the founder, the lid of which
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