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, Ainderby. cathedral. It was placed upright in the centre of the slab, and wasaccompanied by a border-legend; and Gough has figured anotherspecimen of a pastoral-staif, carved in relief upon a tomb in theruins of Bayham The pastoral-staff, the emblem of episcopal or abbatical rank,upon some few monumental stones is represented as grasped in 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 . Slab, Ainderby. cathedral. It was placed upright in the centre of the slab, and wasaccompanied by a border-legend; and Gough has figured anotherspecimen of a pastoral-staif, carved in relief upon a tomb in theruins of Bayham The pastoral-staff, the emblem of episcopal or abbatical rank,upon some few monumental stones is represented as grasped in thehand of the deceased prelate. At Ecclestone Priory in Yorkshire 1 See Whittakers Richmondshire, vol. i. 2 See Goughs Sepulchral Monuments,p. 427. vol. ii. introduction, p. cxv. 54 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS is a curious specimen of this device. The hand is here depicted asissuing from the dexter side of the slab. In the centre rises across, the head of which resembles the same symbol as upon the Margam slab, in the pecu- j liarity of its being formed ofsix foliated Goughhas figured a slab from Wel-beck Abbey, Notts, uponwhich is sculptured a handholding a crosier ;2 and again,upon the fragment of anotherslab at Romsey Abbey, Hants,.
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