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 . It wouldappear that this mode of constructing the coffin-lid was derivedfrom the usage of times long anterior to the termination of theeleventh century; for, without doubt, the coped form is muchearlier than the eleventh century, though but few examples ofearlier date have hitherto been discovered. At Bakewell church,in Derbyshire, however, during the pro
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 . It wouldappear that this mode of constructing the coffin-lid was derivedfrom the usage of times long anterior to the termination of theeleventh century; for, without doubt, the coped form is muchearlier than the eleventh century, though but few examples ofearlier date have hitherto been discovered. At Bakewell church,in Derbyshire, however, during the progress of the rebuilding andrestoration of that edifice in 1841, amongst some other fragmentsof very early sculptured stones, there was discovered the coped lidof a stone coffin, which may be decidedly attributed to a periodnot later than the commencement of the tenth century. This mostcurious relic is of small dimensions, its extreme length measuring-three feet four inches, while its average breadth is fifteen inches 12 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS and a half. It is a little broader at the head than at the feet, andis very acutely ridged. One side is ornamented with knot-work ;the other with monsters, half-animal, half-vegetable: at the head. An^lo-Saxon Coped Coffin-lid, Bakewell. are two griffins, standing back to back under a tree: the device atthe feet appears to be an interlaced design, now much spiral or rope-like molding runs round the angles of the may, I think, reasonably consider this stone to have been ori-ginally set upon a coffin of much larger size than itself, after themanner of the coffin-tomb of William Rufus. Two other copedcoffins of the twelfth century were also found, at the same time, atBakewell; one of which is ornamented horizontally with zig-zaglines, the other with vertical ones, in such a manner as to conveythe idea of the tiling of a Portions of the lids of copedtombs, of precisely similar character with those at Bakewell, haveb
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