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 . IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 21 shire, exhibits an Early English Gothic design of the most In Narford Church, Norfolk, within a mural arch inthe chancel, is the stone coffin of the founder, the lid of which. Xlllth Coffin-lid, Narford Church, t Norfolk. is a good example of this period, the coffin itself being plain :the head of
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 . IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 21 shire, exhibits an Early English Gothic design of the most In Narford Church, Norfolk, within a mural arch inthe chancel, is the stone coffin of the founder, the lid of which. Xlllth Coffin-lid, Narford Church, t Norfolk. is a good example of this period, the coffin itself being plain :the head of the cross, in accordance with a practice by no means 1 This slab, with two others, was re-cently discovered surrounded with encaus-tic tiles, and forming a part of the pave- ment of the ancient Church of WoodPerry, now long demolished. See Archae-ological Journal, p. 127. 22 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS uncommon, is here represented as distinct from the stem. Thisarrangement is again apparent in a coffin-slab now fixed in thesouth aisle of the Church of Little Casterton, in Rutland. AtLyddington, in the same county of Rutland, upon the walls ofthe churchyard, and now used in that position as coping-stones,
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