The history, architecture, and antiquities of the cathedral church of StCanice, Kilkenny . SSIFICATION OF THE MONUMENTS. 133 is at present placed altar-wise near one of the windows of the north side aisle,and, therefore, seen to disadvantage. The cathedral does not contain any otherfigure of this period; but there is re-maining a curious palimpsest monu-ment, which may have borne an effigy,now chiselled away to make room forsculptures and an inscription of the six-teenth century3. The edges of this slab(which is of large size, measuring 3 feetby 8) bear Early English moldings, andthe angles ar
The history, architecture, and antiquities of the cathedral church of StCanice, Kilkenny . SSIFICATION OF THE MONUMENTS. 133 is at present placed altar-wise near one of the windows of the north side aisle,and, therefore, seen to disadvantage. The cathedral does not contain any otherfigure of this period; but there is re-maining a curious palimpsest monu-ment, which may have borne an effigy,now chiselled away to make room forsculptures and an inscription of the six-teenth century3. The edges of this slab(which is of large size, measuring 3 feetby 8) bear Early English moldings, andthe angles are ornamented by bold andwell-carved foliage of the same the class which may be described asincised slabs, the fragments, here repre-sented, may be referred to the centuryunder consideration: one shows the upper portion of the figure of a female,wearing the wimple, a neck-covering peculiar to the period; the other, thefeet, whether of this figure or another it is difficult to say: in both the figureis indicated by deeply cut lines. There are several coffin-shapedb slabs in the. Xo. 35.
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