A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 236
At Exeter there are some good misericords of the 13th and 14th centuries. In this instancethe foliage of the right and left supporters shows the period. Often the subjects were taken from theBestiaries—ancient books containing fables about animals with a far-fetched moral attached. The lionis… … Plate No. CLXX\. JKSUS COLLEGE, CAMKRIDGE. PISCINA, c. 1220. EE Piscinae, or water drains, are a usual accompaniment of the sedilia, or seats for the clergy, within thealtar rails, generally on the south wall. It is strange that their precise use in ritual should be somewhatin dispute, but they…
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