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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 186

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156 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS. are pierced in the alternate bays of the arcade, the intervening bay being left blank. This arrangement will be best explained by the accompanying sketches. " Of each individual statue" in these … Lichfield Cathedral monuments, says Sir Francis Palgrave, "no- thing more is preserved than a head and shoulders, and ankles and feet. These fragments, placed at the proper distances from each other, are built up in the wall ; and though the eye sees nothing but parts of a figure, yet the mind sees…

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