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 99
79 IN ENGLAND AND WALES. staff should indicate those higher aspirations which had directed his steps, as life advanced, from the battle-field to some distant shrine. Long ago have this knight's " bones been dust, And his good sword rust : His soul is with the saints, we trust."1 … Incised Slab, Heysham. And once more, at Heysham in Lancashire, another slab, with the cross and sword, bears a time-worn device, which appears to have 1 The shield upon this slab is charged church, a similar blazon may be still dis- with the arms of Blenkinsop — a fesse be- tinguished. For a very…
Sepulchral monuments
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