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 . Fragment of Incised Slab, St. Marys, Leicester. in the same county of Notts; and in thechurch of St. Mary at Leicester. AtMarsk also, near Richmond in York-shire, an Early English cross of verysingular character is placed upon amonumental slab between the figuresof a chalice and a In the samecounty, at Tankersley, another example has, in addition t
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 . Fragment of Incised Slab, St. Marys, Leicester. in the same county of Notts; and in thechurch of St. Mary at Leicester. AtMarsk also, near Richmond in York-shire, an Early English cross of verysingular character is placed upon amonumental slab between the figuresof a chalice and a In the samecounty, at Tankersley, another example has, in addition to thesame devices, a border-legend, with the date Beneatha mural-arch in the north wall of the chancel at Hutton-in-the- Monumental Slab, Great Salkeld. 1 See Whittakers Richmondshire, vol. i. 2 See Goughs Monuments, vol. ii. intro-P- 22(5. duction, p. ccxlvii. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 61 Forest in Cumberland, lies another slab, bearing an elegant cross,with the figures of a chalice and an open book. The chalice, unaccompanied by any other device except themonumental cross, is of common occurrence. It is the only pro-fessional emblem upon an incised slab at Southwell Minster. It. Incised Slab, Southwell Minster. Incised Slab, Ampleforth, Yorkshire will be observed in this example, that the figure of the chalice isset sloping upon the face of the stone, probably in exact accord-ance with the position in which the real cup was deposited by theside of the deceased priest in his stone Upon another in- 1 It was a common practice to inter a of a deceased ecclesiastic. Many of thesechalice, and a paten also, with the remains chalices have been found, and in some in- 62 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS cised slab, at Ampleforth in Yorkshire, the chalice is representedas lying parallel with the stem of the cross. At Clixby inLincolnshire, to the cross andchalice is added a border-le-gend, whence it appears thatthis slab was laid down as thememorial of Robert Blanchard,a munificent
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