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 . XlVth Century. XlVth Century. Stone Coffin-lid, Brandon, Suffolk. Stone Coffin lid. Dorchester Abbey, Ottou. and Rhuddlan in The coffin-lid at Laughten-en-le-Morthen requires no comments upon the graceful richness ofits sculptured decorations: it will be observed, that with thesketch of the coffin-lid is given a section of the stone coffin
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 . XlVth Century. XlVth Century. Stone Coffin-lid, Brandon, Suffolk. Stone Coffin lid. Dorchester Abbey, Ottou. and Rhuddlan in The coffin-lid at Laughten-en-le-Morthen requires no comments upon the graceful richness ofits sculptured decorations: it will be observed, that with thesketch of the coffin-lid is given a section of the stone coffin slabs at Little Welnetham and Bredon, both apparentlyexecuted in the reign of Richard II., are of more simple cha- For a notice of Thornton Abbey, with illustrations, see Archceol. Jonr. ii. 357. 28 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS racter: the design of the latter is of even unusual simplicity;yet both are no less elegant in themselves, than appropriate tothe purpose of Christian monumental memorial. The use of agroup of circular figures to form the cross-head, is shewn in the. Incised Coffin lid, Bamwood, Gloucestershire. Stone Coffin-lid, Elford, Staffordshire. Dorchester Abbey slab : here are four circles so arranged witha lozenge-shaped figure, that the points of the lozenge form thefour extremities of the cross-head. In some specimens the fourcircles are themselves set towards the cardinal points, and thusproduce the requisite cruciform figure :l the edges of this slab 1 For another, and that a very beautiful circles, see the Fragment figured atexample of a cross-head formed by four p. (!. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. are boldly molded. I may here in-troduce the figure of a fragment of avery beautiful slab at Cilcain, in Flint-shire, which has been most liberallyplaced at my disposal from the pages ofthe Arcileologia Cambrensis. Thecross-head in this example is composedof four segments of circles, so placed asto produce a quatrefoil; and this qua-trefoil is made to interlace with f
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