The grotesque in church art . A TRINITY, ST. MARYS, FAVERSHAM. three-faced head similar to the above. Hone reproduces it inhis Ancient Mysteries Described, and asks, May not thetriune head have been originally suggested by the three-headed Saxon deity named Trigla? The Faversham tria,it will be noticed, has the curled and formal beards of theGreek mask. Another instance of a three-fold head similar to theFaversham carving is at Cartmel. TRINITIES. 181 A still more remarkable form of the same thing occurs asa rosette on the tomb of Bishop cle la Wich, in ChichesterCathedral, in which the trinit
The grotesque in church art . A TRINITY, ST. MARYS, FAVERSHAM. three-faced head similar to the above. Hone reproduces it inhis Ancient Mysteries Described, and asks, May not thetriune head have been originally suggested by the three-headed Saxon deity named Trigla? The Faversham tria,it will be noticed, has the curled and formal beards of theGreek mask. Another instance of a three-fold head similar to theFaversham carving is at Cartmel. TRINITIES. 181 A still more remarkable form of the same thing occurs asa rosette on the tomb of Bishop cle la Wich, in ChichesterCathedral, in which the trinity of faces is doubled and placedin a circle in an exceedingly ingenious and symmetricalmanner. This has oak leaves issuing from the mouths,which we have seen as a frequent adjunct of the classic maskas indicating DOUBLE TKINITY OF FOLIATE MASKS, CHICHESTER. In carvings three will often be found to be a favouritenumber without a direct reference to the Trinity. Theform of the misericorde is almost invariably a three-partdesign, and, being purely arbitrary, its universal adoption isone of the evidences of the organization of the craft gild. As with the misericorde, so with its subjects. At Exeterwe have seen (page 4) the tail of the harpy made into a trefoilornament, while she grasps a trefoil-headed rod (just as among 182 THE GROTESQUE IN CHURCH ART. Assyrian carvings we should have met a figure bearing thesacred three-headed poppy). At Gay ton (page 87) we havethe three-toothed flesh-hook ; at Maidstone is Cathedral and Chichester Hospital have each threegroups. Beverley Minster has three fish interlaced, and three
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