. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE in fear. Perhaps he is represented more atlarge on the next panel. Forrabury pulpitis made up of what were originally the altar is similarly constructed. The stag hunt is very frequently repre-sented on Celtic crosses. Sometimes we seethe stag represented alone, as on an arch ofthe shamefully used Norman church ofShobdon, Hereford. On a stall at Sefton,Lancashire, something very like an antelopeis carved. The animal has serrated horns,and is shown eating herbage, while his
. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE in fear. Perhaps he is represented more atlarge on the next panel. Forrabury pulpitis made up of what were originally the altar is similarly constructed. The stag hunt is very frequently repre-sented on Celtic crosses. Sometimes we seethe stag represented alone, as on an arch ofthe shamefully used Norman church ofShobdon, Hereford. On a stall at Sefton,Lancashire, something very like an antelopeis carved. The animal has serrated horns,and is shown eating herbage, while his horn-less mate is prancing off in fear in theopposite direction. There may be here an allusion to the mediae-val idea, according to which the antelopeshorns are so powerful, that he can saw treesasunder with them. It makes its way wheiTIthirsty to the banks of the Euphrates, buton the way it is led aside to eat some pleasantshrubs. These entangle its horns, so thatthe hunters or wild beasts come and kill theantelope. The two horns of the antelope representthe Old and New T
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