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 . % 1400 Semi-effigial Brass to John de Estburx- and Wife, Lambourne, Eerks < few of the best examples which yet remain. Lambourne in Berk-shire, Hellesdon in Norfolk, Graveney in Kent, and Rusper inSussex, supply good specimens of semi-effigial brasses of civiliansand At Chinnor in Oxfordshire are half-figures of a knightwearing a bascin
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 . % 1400 Semi-effigial Brass to John de Estburx- and Wife, Lambourne, Eerks < few of the best examples which yet remain. Lambourne in Berk-shire, Hellesdon in Norfolk, Graveney in Kent, and Rusper inSussex, supply good specimens of semi-effigial brasses of civiliansand At Chinnor in Oxfordshire are half-figures of a knightwearing a bascinet and camail, and his lady; and also of an eccle- portions of the pastoral-staff in this ex-. nead of Pastoral-Staff, Temple Church, Loudon. ample shew that, when perfect, it closely resembled the staff held in the hands ofthe episcopal effigy in the Temple Church,London. 1 See Lysons Gloucestershire Antiq. 2 See Monumental Brasses and Slabs,p. 117. The semi-effigies at Lambourneappear to have been placed within thefour evangelistic emblems, which were en-graved on small plates, and placed to-wards the four angles of the slab : of theseemblems two only yet remain. This brassaffords a striking example of a generalsimilarity in the style of costume worn bythe two sexes in the fourteenth century. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 151 siastic in academic habit. These brasses severally commemorateSir Esmoun de Malyns and lady, c. 1380, and John Hotham,
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