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 . Stone, rftoke, Lincolnshire. chester, died at Paris 1261, the forty-sixth year of the reignof King Henry III. The heart only of the deceased prelate wassent home for burial in his cathedral church, where this slab wasplaced above A pointed oval encloses a semi-efflgy of a knight ? See cut opposite p. see also Holliss Monumental Effiy


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 . Stone, rftoke, Lincolnshire. chester, died at Paris 1261, the forty-sixth year of the reignof King Henry III. The heart only of the deceased prelate wassent home for burial in his cathedral church, where this slab wasplaced above A pointed oval encloses a semi-efflgy of a knight ? See cut opposite p. see also Holliss Monumental Effiyies. The remaining 150 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS in mail armour, and a shield, in another monument at Coberley inGloucestershire: the hands of the figure are here represented asholding a second and smaller After the middle of the fourteenth century monumental brassescomprise a numerous series of semi-effigies. Of these memorials,in which the half-figures almost invariably rest upon fillets chargedwith inscriptions, it will be sufficient for me here to refer to some.


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