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 . Slab, Chichester Cathedral. 1 A good example of a heart with threescrolls thus inscribed occurs at Margate inKent. It is the memorial of ThomasSmyth, priest, and bears the date brass is figured in the Oxford Archi-tectural Societys Manual, p. cxiv. An-other good example is preserved in thechurch at Kirby Beedon in Norfolk. At Randvvorth in
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 . Slab, Chichester Cathedral. 1 A good example of a heart with threescrolls thus inscribed occurs at Margate inKent. It is the memorial of ThomasSmyth, priest, and bears the date brass is figured in the Oxford Archi-tectural Societys Manual, p. cxiv. An-other good example is preserved in thechurch at Kirby Beedon in Norfolk. At Randvvorth in the same county, in placeof the scrolls are three small oblong platesbearing the same legend; but here theheart itself, with a fourth plate bearing aninscription and also a shield of arms, aregone. Again, at Trunch, also in Norfolk,a heart is surmounted by two scrolls and ashield. Q 114 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS times the scroll which accompanies the figure of the heart bearsthe words,— Cor mundum crea in me, Deus Again, on otherslabs the heart appears held by two In brasses at Loddonin Norfolk, Elmstead in Essex, and Caversfield in Buckingham-. shire, these hands are depicted as issuing from clouds. At Bredonin Worcestershire, the hands which hold the heart are represented,sculptured in low relief, as rising above an heraldic shield; and 1 At Southacre in Norfolk is a slab, fromwhich the brass has been torn away, and alllost except a few fragments, which are keptin the parish chest. These fragments, to-gether with the indents on the face of theslab, shew the original composition to have consisted of a heart held by two hands, twoachievements of arms, and several of the remaining fragments are en-graved on both sides; and on the reverseof one the engraving is apparently Fle-mish. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 115 thus, with the shield, they form a pointed oval or vesica. Thiscurious monument is preserved within a plain mural arch in thesouth aisle. It is very probable t
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