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The romance of symbolism and its relation to church ornament and architecture (1909)

Heath, Sidney, 1872- · London : F. Griffiths · leaf 151

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ting the Cross for the Dragon on the standards of cohorts. CHURCHYARD CROSSES. Churchyard Crosses do not come within the scope of this volume, and would indeed require a whole book to do them justice. It may, however, be mentioned that many of them date from long before the erection of the churches… … to erect crosses by the roadside and in the open market places of our towns and villages, and numerous examples still remain as at Dunster, Winchester, Cheddar, Glastonbury, Malmesbury, and Salisbury. Crosses were also erected to commemorate battles and remarkable occurrences, of which the famous…

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