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 Stone Coffin-lid,Sproatley, York. Incised Slab, Mai-rick. with a cross, there are incised upon a slab a chalice, a square patencharged with a quatrefoil, a book, and another object, apparently apax :3 and at Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, beside the crossis represented a hand holding a paten, but the chalice is omitted. 1 The design of 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 Stone Coffin-lid,Sproatley, York. Incised Slab, Mai-rick. with a cross, there are incised upon a slab a chalice, a square patencharged with a quatrefoil, a book, and another object, apparently apax :3 and at Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, beside the crossis represented a hand holding a paten, but the chalice is omitted. 1 The design of the Sproatley slab has practised, and at no distant period, unfortunately been reversed. The bar- 2 See the Churches of Scarborough and barous act of cutting away the sculptured the Neighbourhood, p. 130. designs from monumental stones appears 3 See Wh\ttakers Richmo?tdshire, vol. i. in some districts to have been extensively p. 221. CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS The chalice and book are rarely found together, with a cross,upon the same slab. Perhaps the county of Durham contains themajority of the examples which have been observed. In thechurchyard at Great Salkeld, in the adjoining county of Cumber-land, is a slab upon which these same devices appear. They are repeated upon another slab,
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