A manual for the study of the sepulchral slabs and crosses of the middle ages (1849)
Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901, Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland · London, J. H. Parker · leaf 85
el. Compare the terminations of the armswith the points of star in the base of the raisedcross slab from Bilborough on Plate lviii., andwith the example from Bridgenorth, Gloucestershire,given in the margin. The shape of the slab iscurious and unusual. Plate lxvi. Christ Church, near… … NOTES. 73 the cuts in Plates.) This stone is a curious compound of the crossslab, and the slab with incised figures. In the Archseologia, vol. iv.,(from which the drawing is taken,) is an account of a superstitiouscustom which the people of the neighbourhood have of laying theirsick children upon…
Sepulchral monuments · Sculpture, Medieval
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