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 (1854)
Boutell, Charles, 1812-1877 · London : G. Bell · leaf 120
96 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS slab recently disinterred at Hexham" in Northumberland. " This grave-stone had evidently been buried in the earth very soon after it had been placed in the churchyard, for the letters and moldings are as fresh as though only cut within the past year." This slab is flat, and… … the same device would appear upon the Incised Slab, St. John's, Chester. monument of this Philip himself, and that it would have been placed upon it in consequence of his having been a mercerarivs. In place of the shears, scissors have been occasionally observed upon monumental stones. Thus, in the…
Sepulchral monuments
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