The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . archare continued to the bases of the piers. The secondarch is faced by round and hollow mouldings, boldlycut; and the outward arch by mouldings of a complexzig-zag form, bounded by an indented grotesque head surmounts the apex of the pedi-ment : the latter exhibits (with other fanciful devices)the figures of the several persons of the Holy Trinity,(which have leaden eye-balls), and the respectivesymbols of the
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . archare continued to the bases of the piers. The secondarch is faced by round and hollow mouldings, boldlycut; and the outward arch by mouldings of a complexzig-zag form, bounded by an indented grotesque head surmounts the apex of the pedi-ment : the latter exhibits (with other fanciful devices)the figures of the several persons of the Holy Trinity,(which have leaden eye-balls), and the respectivesymbols of the four Evangelists. There are also re-mains of different names, as that of tavrvs, & on one of the capitals. The walls ofthe church are strengthened by flat buttresses, andalong the upper part extends a sort of ornamentalblocking course, of grotesque and other heads, fromwhich spring an equally-extended string course of in-tervenina- arches. Where the Norman windows havenot been enlarged, they remain very long and narrow :in some instances plain, in others, with the zig-zagmoulding. .IHlllHlllu,Mil UHIIitl!)!!! f!!!!!lll!ll|||l!iiii!|iilllii||i fill. The interior consists of a nave and chancel only,which are separated from each other by a semicir-cular archway of three gradations, as delineated inthe annexed print, which exhibits the chancel divi-sion : there are neither aisles nor columns : the sculp-tured heads, which diversify the ornaments of theouter arch, display much grotesqueness and extrava-gance of design; some of them appearing to beswallowing up other heads and figures, and othersmaking singular grimaces. (To be continued.) LINES ARCHWAY BETWEEN THE NAVE AND CHANCEL. ON PRESENTING A LADY WITH A BRANCH OF HEATHER GATHEREDON THE FIELD OF WATERLOO, AUG. 24th 1832. BY HENRY BRANDRETH, ESQ. Tins little flower of purple hue, Alas ? tis witherd now !— Once hloomd in fields where wanderd few Save those who guide the plough. Of them, percbance, some wanton hand M
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