Norman Architecture in Cornwall: A Handbook to Old Cornish Ecclesiastical Architecture, with Notes on Ancient Manor-housesWard & Company, 1909 - 464 pages |
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altar Altarnun appears arch architecture base bays bench-ends Bishop Bodmin bowl built buttresses capitals century chamfered chancel chapel church of St circular CONFESSOR Cornish Cornwall Crantock date is circa early east wall east window Egloshayle erected example feast fifteenth font Plate four fourteenth fourteenth-century Fowey Germans granite half inches height inches deep inches high interesting jambs Kilkhampton Lanteglos late fifteenth-century Launceston Lelant Lewannick Liskeard masonry miles modern Morwenstowe moulded nave nave and chancel nine inches Norman architecture Norman building Norman church Norman font north aisle north and south north arcade north side north wall octagonal original ornamented Otterham panels parish parish-church piers pinnacles piscina Polyphant Pope Nicholas IV portion probably purlins rebuilt recess remains restoration sanctuary screen shafts slab south aisle south chancel-aisle south doorway south porch south side south transept south wall square stands stone thirteenth-century three feet Tintagel tracery tympanum west tower west wall width workmanship
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Page 294 - A House, a Glebe, a Pound a Day; A Pleasant Place to Watch and Pray. Be true to Church — Be kind to Poor, O Minister!
Page 77 - I Grudge the Fashion of this day, To fat the Church and starve the lay. Though Nothing now of me be seen, I Hope my Name and bed is Green.
Page 436 - At the present time the people go to the well in crowds on the first Sunday in May, when the Wesleyans hold a service there, and a sermon is preached ; after which the people throw in two pins or pebbles to consult the spirit, or try for sweethearts ; if the two articles sink together, they will soon be married.
Page 16 - Trinity * — what is technically known as the " ITALIAN TRINITY," of which I cannot do better than borrow the following description from Mrs. Jameson's History of our LORD as Exemplified in Works of Art.
Page 88 - Thèze, (in the department of the Pyrenees,) where the Cagots were admitted to partake in the holy sacrament, they were still kept apart from other people, and the consecrated bread was reached to them at the end of a rod or cleft stick.
Page 16 - His earthly sufferings — the Father is always seen supporting the Cross by the two ends of the transverse beam, the effigy of the dead Son hanging generally between his knees, while the Dove appears proceeding from the lips of the Father and touching the head of the Son — which is the earliest form — or perched like a mere bird on one side of the Cross. Angels sometimes support the feet of the Saviour. It would be difficult to explain this spurious kind of ' Ecce Homo' by any text of Scripture...
Page 88 - I should eccho some of their complaints, that they are defrauded of their right. The much eating of fish, especially newly taken, and therein principally of the livers, is reckoned a great breeder of those contagious humours which turn into leprosie ; but whence soever the cause proceedeth, dayly events minister often pitiful spectacles to the Cornish mens...
Page 367 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 200 - Here lyeth ye body of Charles Gryles, Esq. counsellor-at-law, who was buried the 2nd day of March, 1611. Also the body of Agnes Gryles his wife, who was buried 13 day of June, 1607, by whom he had 4 sons and 4 daughters, all which daughters are departed this life, and one sonne. In memory of whome this monument is erected, by John Gryles, Esq. their son and heire. 1623. (Two flat stones in Tavistock, with the coates of Gryles.) These escocheons...
Page 88 - Leprosie : but whence soeuer the cause proceedeth, dayly euents minister often pittifull spectacles to the Cornish men's eyes, of people visited with this affliction ; some being authours of their owne calamity by the forementioned diet, and some others succeeding therein to an haereditarius morbus of their ancestors, whom we will leaue to the poorest comfort in miserie, a helplesse pittie.