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 24
12 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS and a half. It is a little broader at the head than at the feet, and is very acutely ridged. " One side is ornamented with knot-work ; the other with monsters, half-animal, half- vegetable : at the head … An^lo-Saxon Coped Coffin-lid, Bakewell. are two griffins, standing back to back under a tree : the device at the feet appears to be an interlaced design, now much obliterated. A spiral or rope-like molding runs round the angles of the stone." We may, I think, reasonably consider this stone to have…
Sepulchral monuments
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
