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 . .5 Two busts, those of a man and woman, are placed upon a slab at Sil-chester in Hampshire,4 above a cross. The cross itself is placedwithin a quatrefoil, about which is described a circle resting upona tall In Pembrokeshire, in the church at Penally, upon ahigh tomb lies a slab having on it two heads a little raised, and across below, much defaced
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 . .5 Two busts, those of a man and woman, are placed upon a slab at Sil-chester in Hampshire,4 above a cross. The cross itself is placedwithin a quatrefoil, about which is described a circle resting upona tall In Pembrokeshire, in the church at Penally, upon ahigh tomb lies a slab having on it two heads a little raised, and across below, much defaced, with a marginal inscription to william . 1 See Goughs Monuments, vol. i. p. cix. p. 90. 2 See cuts at p. 134. 4 See cuts at p. 135. 3 See Goughs Monuments, vol. ii. in- 5 This slab is figured in Specimens oftroduction, p. ex. The Billesford slab is Ancient Church Plate, &c. figured in Nichols Leicestershire, vol. i. 6 See the Archaeological Album, p. 171. 134 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS de . raynoor . et . isemay . sa . femme. And in Newport church,Pembroke, is a gravestone raised a little from the floor, having ahead embossed on it, much defaced, with a cross fleury the wholelength of the Upon the pavement of the north aisle of. Monumental Slab,Billesford, Leicestershire. LlandafF Cathedral is another monumental stone, which bears anelegant cross flory below two heads : the slab has also a border-legend. And again, at Bredon in Worcestershire, amongst thenumerous monuments of great interest with which the church 1 See Archceologia Cambrensis* vol. ii. p. 321. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 135 abounds, is a very remarkable slab, recently discovered, which hasbeen now placed on the southern side of the chancel. Towardsthe upper part of the slab appear, carved in bold relief, the bustsof a civilian and his wife beneath a rich double canopy; and im-mediately below these busts are the transverse arms of a crucifix,
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