This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...varieties of stone. Bassano, writing about 1710, says: --"In the East end of the North He is a Tombe all of wood, ye side of tomb erected about 4 foot high, & upon it is the full proportion of a man in some sort of Priests orders, In Rich Canonicall Robes, supposed to be the Abbot of Derley, a dog at his feet, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...varieties of stone. Bassano, writing about 1710, says: --"In the East end of the North He is a Tombe all of wood, ye side of tomb erected about 4 foot high, & upon it is the full proportion of a man in some sort of Priests orders, In Rich Canonicall Robes, supposed to be the Abbot of Derley, a dog at his feet, Colloured, and looking mournfully up at his master, upon the side of this tombe cut on the wood, are the effigies of 13 monkes in their habits, in praying postures, and under them, Cut on wood, lyeth a Man on his left side' wrapped up in his winding sheet, with a Cross Patee on his left brest." When the old Church was demolished in 1723-5, this monument was not actually destroyed, but separated into its component parts; the effigy and cadaver were consigned to the obscurity of the Town Vault, whence they have only recently been removed, sadly defaced and mutilated by rot and neglect. The tomb itself was destroyed, except part of the side containing the figures, which is now affixed to the Consistory Court in the north chancel aisle. When Mr. Rawlins visited the Church in 1831, this piece of carving hung beneath the East window. Tradition, he tells us, ascribed it to the apex of the arch over the south porch door of the old Church; but his own opinion was that it was the upper part of a door-case leading into a Confessional (!), and the thirteen figures he considered to be S. Paul and the twelve Apostles (!!) The effigy, which measures about 6 ft. by 2 ft., is vested in cassock, surplice, almuce, and processional cope--the costume of a Secular Canon. The head is supported by sitting figures of angels, now much broken. The figure of the collared hound has utterly vanished, and the lower part of the effigy is sadly decayed and injured. The c...
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