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 . a d. 1239. 24th Henry Coffin-lid, St. Pierre, nearChepstow. 1 See Frontispiece. I may here ob-serve, that it appears to have been afavourite idea to form the head of thecross in such a manner as to admit withinit some figure or device, after the mannerexemplified by the Tickell slab. Of this class of monumental cross several fine ex-amples will
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 . a d. 1239. 24th Henry Coffin-lid, St. Pierre, nearChepstow. 1 See Frontispiece. I may here ob-serve, that it appears to have been afavourite idea to form the head of thecross in such a manner as to admit withinit some figure or device, after the mannerexemplified by the Tickell slab. Of this class of monumental cross several fine ex-amples will be found described and figuredin Sections II. and III. of this volume. 2 See Add. MSS. Brit. Museum, 6729 ;Arcliceol. Journal, vol. v. p. 76 ; and Gen-tlemans Mag. vol. xxxv. p. 72. Stone Coffin lid of the Early English Gothic Period,at Tickhill in Yorkshire. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 69 is produced after the same manner. There are swords upon monu-mental slabs, with crosses, at Parwich, Staveley, and Chelmorton,in Derbyshire. At Darley, in the same county, the sword is ac-companied by a bugle-horn;1 and the same devices are repeated at. O. 1300. Xlllth Century. Coffin-slab of Griffith ap Jorworth, Stone Coffin-lid, St. Johns, BangorChester. Great Salkeld in Cumberland, with the addition of the monumental slab of Griffith ap Jorworth, a benefactor toBangor Friery, now built into the wall of the grammar-school atthat city, is a memorial no less beautiful than interesting. It bears See Lysons Derbyshire. 2 See Lysons Cumberland. 70 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS a cross of most elegant design, which has on the dexter side of itsstem a sword, and on the sinister side a Latin legend in two linescut in relief in sunk labels. Below the legend is a small cruciformdevice within a circle, the mark probably of the sculptor who exe-
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