A manual for the study of the sepulchral slabs and crosses of the Middle Ages / By the Rev. Edward L. Cutts, B. A.

  • Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901.
Date:
1849
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Credit: A manual for the study of the sepulchral slabs and crosses of the Middle Ages / By the Rev. Edward L. Cutts, B. A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tershire, Plate uxx., another on a raised cross slab at Hales Owen, engraved in the Antiquarian and Topographi- cal Cabinet, vol. x. A very fine example of this from Sweden is given, Plate xxxu., from a drawing in the possession of the Antiquarian Society, Copenhagen: it is engraved in the Archeologia Auliana, vol. 11. Some incised stones have some other design upon them, instead of a cross. Thus at Hinton, Kent, Plate xxrx., 1s a stone having a heart with {$4 S within it, and an in- scription round the border of the slab. At Bristol is one having a cook’s knife and dredging box, engraved in Gough, vol. i. p. cix., the trade symbols of William Coke, guon- dam serviens Willmi Cannyngis mercatoris ville Bristol, whose brass (date 1474) exists in the same church. Sometimes a very small cross, like those with which inscrip- tions commence, is placed at the right hand top corner of the slab, as in one at Little Baddow, Essex, and at Mont Orgeuil castle, Jersey; or such a cross is placed in the middle of the slab, (where the heart is placed in the Hinton slab, Plate xxix.,) as in one at Gosforth, Northumberland, engraved in the Archeol. Atliana, vol. 1. p. 243. Sometimes a kind of cross is formed by drawing lines from end to end and across the stone, as at Woodperry, Plate uv. <A similar slab, with double instead of treble lines, is at Marks Tey, Essex. At Gosforth, Northumber- land, is a coffin-shaped stone with single lines drawn diago- ually from corner to corner, forming a St. Andrew's cross. ‘These may perhaps be intended to represent the pall or bier cloth, upon which was commonly worked a cross, sometimes with one cross bar, sometimes with two, some- times with more. The bier cloths were of coloured stutfts, and perhaps these stones may have been coloured in imita- tion of them. ‘Thus in the famous MS. of the Romaunt 1 Gough’s Sepulchral Monuments.