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 . 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 f
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 . 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 fourother interrupted circles, which them-selves form both a cross and a cross- Jd inches ??. Fragment of Slab, Cilcain.
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