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 . 1463. 3rd Edward to William Lanoion, Rector. St. Michaels Church, York. mental slabs of ecclesiastics, accompanied by inscriptions only,occur in the church of St. Peter in the city ofNorwich, and in the churches at South Bur-lingham, Catfield, Scottow, Taverham, NorthWalsham, Old Buckenham, Colney, Heden-ham, Salthouse, Colby, and Surlingh
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 . 1463. 3rd Edward to William Lanoion, Rector. St. Michaels Church, York. mental slabs of ecclesiastics, accompanied by inscriptions only,occur in the church of St. Peter in the city ofNorwich, and in the churches at South Bur-lingham, Catfield, Scottow, Taverham, NorthWalsham, Old Buckenham, Colney, Heden-ham, Salthouse, Colby, and Surlingham, all inNorfolk ; also at Leeds, at Shorne in Kent,Howell in Bedfordshire, &c. In many of thesespecimens, as in the brass at Catfield, the waferinscribed with the monogram ihc appearsplaced in the chalice. At Fakenham in Nor-folk, figures of the chalice and wafer are en-graved upon a plate of brass in the form of aheart; and this heart is encircled by two scrolls,which are adapted to its own form, and beara legend to the memory of Henry Newman, Chalice upon a MonumentalSlab. CatBeld. 1 I have here introduced the engravingof this brass from my Monumental Brassesof England. 2 See Cotmans Norfolk Brasses; seealso my Monumental Brasses and Slabs,p. 122, where the Burlingham chalice is 112 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS Upon some other slabs there appears, as a monumental device,a figure of the human Heart. In a few instances this may denotethat the heart only of the deceased was interred in the place inwhich this memorial was laid down. This has been ascertained tohave been the case in the church of St. Mary the Virgin in Wig-genhale, in the county of Norfolk, where is a brass comprising a
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