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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 42

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CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS 28 racter: the design of the latter is of even unusual simplicity; yet both are no less elegant in themselves, than appropriate to the purpose of Christian monumental memorial. The use of a group of circular figures to form the cross-head, is shewn in the … Incised Coffin lid, Bamwood, Gloucestershire. Stone Coffin-lid, Elford, Staffordshire. Dorchester Abbey slab : here are four circles so arranged with a lozenge-shaped figure, that the points of the lozenge form the four extremities of the cross-head. In some specimens the four circles are…

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