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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 136

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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 denote that the heart only of the deceased was interred in the place in which this memorial was laid down. This has been ascertained to have been the case in… … Brass to Sia Robert Kimvn.R. St. Mary's Wiggenhale, Norfolk. heart, with four scrolls bearing a commemorative legend. Upon a slab in the pavement of the presbytery in Chichester Cathedral, a heart is represented as held by two hands within a trefoil, and the whole is charged upon a shield : the…

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