The wanderings of a pen and pencil . tween three lions heads erased within aborder of roundelle, and on a chief bar a pale charged with apelican. 4. As the first. At the foot of Forsters tomb Lie the brasses before mentioned, upon slabswhich cover the remains of two of the daughters of Rainold Williams, ofForsters wifes family; the following is one of the inscriptions in oldcharacters: — f^cotitftc JHabrrtoon flatter to ftangnoRj SUfnltnamgOf JSorfcttf in the Cnuntn of 38ar6£ CjJquger. The other is imperfect, indeed almost illegible. The Piscina or Lavatoryremains in the southern wall of the s
The wanderings of a pen and pencil . tween three lions heads erased within aborder of roundelle, and on a chief bar a pale charged with apelican. 4. As the first. At the foot of Forsters tomb Lie the brasses before mentioned, upon slabswhich cover the remains of two of the daughters of Rainold Williams, ofForsters wifes family; the following is one of the inscriptions in oldcharacters: — f^cotitftc JHabrrtoon flatter to ftangnoRj SUfnltnamgOf JSorfcttf in the Cnuntn of 38ar6£ CjJquger. The other is imperfect, indeed almost illegible. The Piscina or Lavatoryremains in the southern wall of the sanctuary or communion, which is plainlywainscotted in good churchwarden style. The carvings upon the seats in thechancel are curious and interesting; there are toads and human heads, and CUMNOR CHURCH. 157 two remarkable faces of a broad oaken escutcheon, rising laterally from oneof the seats, displaying the emblems usually termed the Instruments of thePassion, so frequently to be met with on the stone-work of religious edifices,. Pew Ornaments, Curanor. upon tombs, upon the clasps of books, and in embroidered altar-work; — suchare the motley vest, and Christs seamless garment; the reed andsponge ; the lance; the dice ; the lantern of Judas ; thescourge; the pillar; the cock which rebuked Peter, &c. In the south transept of Cumnor Church are two ancient low tombsbearing the floral cross; they lie to the ground between the origin of twoornamented arches, which front a recess within the wall. These are supposedto contain so much as may there remain of the mortal husk of two of theabbots of Abingdon. In this transept there is a mural inscription to thememory of Benjamin Buckler, D. D., Vicar of the Parish, whose honestprinciples, it is said, contended adversely to his worldly interests,—an apostolical character and an eulogium much to be cherished and pre-served, though we believe thee, friend Buckler, to have been somewhat liberalin politics, and to have cut off kindly aid
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