The grotesque in church art . FOXES AT THE LECTERN, ST. MARYS, BEVERLEY. aureola or glory ; it is probably an eagle, but who shall say itis not a dove ? The religiously-garbed foxes are aloneunmistakable. At Boston we have a mitred Fox, enthroned in theepiscopal seat in full canonicals, clutching at a cock whichstands near, while another bird is at the side. Close by thethrone, another fox, in a cowl only, is reading from a book. At Christchurch, Hampshire, we see the Fox on aseat-elbow, in a pulpit of good design, and near him, on THE FOX IN CHURCH ART. 203 a stool, the Cock ; it appears in t
The grotesque in church art . FOXES AT THE LECTERN, ST. MARYS, BEVERLEY. aureola or glory ; it is probably an eagle, but who shall say itis not a dove ? The religiously-garbed foxes are aloneunmistakable. At Boston we have a mitred Fox, enthroned in theepiscopal seat in full canonicals, clutching at a cock whichstands near, while another bird is at the side. Close by thethrone, another fox, in a cowl only, is reading from a book. At Christchurch, Hampshire, we see the Fox on aseat-elbow, in a pulpit of good design, and near him, on THE FOX IN CHURCH ART. 203 a stool, the Cock ; it appears in the initial of this article. At Worcester, a scapularied Fox is kneeling before asmall table or altar, laying his hand with an affectation ofreverence upon—a sheeps head. This is one of the sidecarvings to the misericorde of the three mowers, consideredunder the head of Trinities. The Fox seizing the Hen, at Windsor, reminds of the. EPISCOPAL HYPOCRISY, BOSTON. Fable, yet in so many other instances it is the Cock who isthe prey. Still further removing the carvings out of the sphereof the Fable is a carving at Chicester of the Fox playing theharp to a goose, while an ape dances ; and another at , Windsor, in which it is an ape who wears the stole,and is engaged in the laying on of hands. In the Fable theFox teaches the Hare the Creed, yet in a carving at Man- 2o4 THE GROTESQUE IN CHURCH ART. Chester it is his two young cubs whom he is teaching froma book. The Fox in the Shell of Salvation, artfully discoursingon the merits of a bottle of holy water, as drawn on page 58,may be considered a Preaching Fox. There is at Nantwich a carving which, unlike any ofthose already noticed, is closely illustrative of an incident ofthe epic. It represents the story told to Nouvels court by thewidower Crow. He and his wife, in travelling through thecountry, came across what they thought was the dead body ofReynard on the
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