The Old Stone Crosses of DorsetPrinted at the Chiswick Press and sold by Henry Ling, Dorchester, 1906 - 145 pàgines |
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Abbey Abbot ancient cross angles Antiquarian Field Club base BEAMINSTER block of Ham BRADFORD ABBAS BRIDPORT calvary canopied carved centre century Cerne Abbas chamfered Chapel church CHURCHYARD CROSS Corfe Mullen cross roads defaced Dorset dowel east edition of Hutchins erected face feet six inches figure foot formed freestone from Hamdon Ham Hill stone Hamdon Hill inches in height inches square Latin cross LENOX AND TILDEN Lord Maiden Newton manor market cross massive measures four feet measures three feet memory Milton Abbas monuments mortise moulding niched nine inches original parish photograph pillar plate plinth preaching cross probably PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR Purbeck Rampisham relic remains restoration SAINT ANDREW'S CROSS Saint Mary sandstone sculptured set-off Shaftesbury Sherborne socket socket-stone solid block south side Stalbridge stands stood Sturminster Marshall surmounted tapering TILDEN FOUNDATIONS Todbere town upper bed Vicar village cross village green weather drip worn YETMINSTER YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Passatges populars
Pàgina 8 - An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in. Parliament, for the...
Pàgina 14 - Tis a thing of ill-omen, miss. It was put up in wuld times by the relations of a malefactor, who was • BATCOMBE. " The sequeslmd village .... a flace oj marvellaus Icgends. ' tortured there by nailing his hand to a post and afterwards hung. The bones lie underneath. They say he sold his soul to the devil, and that he walks at times.
Pàgina 9 - Provided that this ordinance, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to any image, picture, or coat of arms, in glass, stone, or otherwise, in any church, chapel, church-yard, or place of [niblick prayer, as aforesaid, set up or graven only for a monument of any King, prince, or nobleman, or other dead person, which hath not been commonly reputed or taken for a saint...
Pàgina 6 - AB these structures were incorporated with or surmounted by a crucifix, the term cross was so indelibly associated with them that it survived the religions character of the fabrics. 'The general intent of market-crosses was to excite public homage to the religion of Christ crucified, and to inspire men with a sense of morality and piety amidst the ordinary transactions of life.
Pàgina 18 - The ireful winds that scoured and swept Through coppice, clump, and dell. Within that holy circle slept Calm as in hermit's cell. Then the priest bent likewise to the sod And thanked the Lord of Love, And blessed Mary, Mother of God, And all the Saints above. And turning straight with his priceless freight, He reached the dying one, Whose passing sprite had been stayed for the rite Without which bliss hath none.
Pàgina 14 - The place took its name from a stone pillar which stood there, a strange rude monolith, from a stratum unknown in any local quarry, on which was roughly carved a human hand. Differing accounts were given of its history and purport. Some authorities stated that a devotional cross had once formed the complete erection thereon, of which the present relic was but the stump ; others that the stone as it stood was entire, and that it had been fixed there to mark a boundary or...
Pàgina 16 - Some say the spot is banned ; that the pillar Cross-and-Hand Attests to a deed of hell ; But of else than of bale is the mystic tale That ancient Vale-folk tell. Ere Cernel's Abbey ceased hereabout there dwelt a priest, (In later life sub-prior Of the brotherhood there, whose bones are now bare In the field that was Cernel choir). One night in his cell at the foot of yon dell The priest heard a frequent cry : " Go, father, in haste to the cot on the waste, And shrive a man waiting to die.
Pàgina 8 - The Lords and Commons in Parliament, taking into their serious considerations how well pleasing it is to God, and conduceable to the blessed reformation in his worship, so much desired by both houses of parliament, that all monuments of superstition or idolatry should be removed or demolished; do ordain, that in all, &c.
Pàgina 17 - He thought of the Visage his dream revealed, And turned towards whence he came, Hands groping the ground along foot-track and field, And head in a heat of shame. Till here on the hill, betwixt vill and vill, He noted a clear straight ray Stretching down from the sky to a spot hard by, Which shone with the light of day. And gathered around the illumined ground Were common beasts and rare, All kneeling at gaze, and in pause profound Attent on an object there.
Pàgina xiv - Crosse d'or, evesqut de bois. CROSS ; one straight body laid at any angle upon another; the ensign or emblem of the Christian religion, as being a representation of the instrument of punishment, on which Jesus Christ suffered death from the Jews ; the form in which many churches and cathedrals are built. The cross of the ancients was simply a piece of wood, fastened across a tree" or upright post, on which were executed criminals of the very worst class.