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 . the wooden coffinin which the Lady Joanna de Bohun wasburied in Hereford Cathedral, Thorby Priory, Essex, six early woodencoffins were recently disinterred, each ofwhich was rudely cut out from a singlelog of timber: see Weales Quarterly 8 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS founders of churches, the monumental character of the stone coffinwas rendered still
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 . the wooden coffinin which the Lady Joanna de Bohun wasburied in Hereford Cathedral, Thorby Priory, Essex, six early woodencoffins were recently disinterred, each ofwhich was rudely cut out from a singlelog of timber: see Weales Quarterly 8 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS founders of churches, the monumental character of the stone coffinwas rendered still more decided, by its being placed beneath alow arch, formed within the substance of the church-wall, for theexpress purpose of receiving it. Stone coffins were also placed in churchyards, having their lidsprobably raised above the surface of the ground: and they noware continually found in old burial-grounds, and adjoining thesites of ruined and almost forgotten churches, covered with theaccumulated soil of succeeding centuries. In some cases, thestone coffins may have been originally placed in the ground, orin vaults sunk for their reception. The specimen here representedwas dug up from the site of the destroyed Abbey of These coffins were constructed from a single block of stone,hollowed out for the reception of the corpse, and having a cavitycut in the solid stone, at the upper end, for the head; their coversor lids were also wrought from another single block or In Papers on Architecture. It will be bornein mind that, at an early period, the pre-vailing custom with our ancestors was tobury their dead without any coffin ; andconsequently the early coffins now disco-vered, being exceptions to the general prac-tice, may be assigned to persons of unusualimportance. 1 The stone coffin, hewn from a singleblock, may be derived from the more an-cient cist-vaen, or receptacle for the dead,consisting of four or more stones, set up-right about the body to be interr
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