Ancient crosses and other antiquites in the west of CornwallSimpkin, Marshall and Company, 1856 - 68 pages |
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Ancient Crosses and Other Antiquities in the West of Cornwall by J. T ... John Thomas Blight Affichage du livre entier - 1858 |
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11 inches 12 feet 9 feet 9 inches Alverton ancient Chapel Baptistries Bleu Bridge BLIGHT Boase Bolitho Borlase BOSKENNA breadth Brunian Burian Camborne CAPE CORNWALL Christianity Chûn Church CHURCH-TOWN CHURCHYARD WALL circle at Boscawen-ûn Constantine copies cover-stone Cross at Helstone Cross formerly stood CROWAN diameter Druids engraved erected ERTH F. T. VIBERT feet 3 inches feet 9 feet high feet wide figure of Christ foot 11 foot 6 inches foot 9 foot 9 inches foot thick,-the hole Garden of Glynn Greek cross Gulval GWINEAR CHURCHYARD Height Hichens Higgs Hilary holed stone INSCRIBED STONES inscription Institution of Cornwall IVES CHURCHYARD John Lanyon cromlech Lelant length LEVAN CHURCHYARD LUDGVAN MADRON Mên Scryfa Miss Morvah MULFRA Mullion Notus parish of St Pascoe Paul Penzance PHILLACK plain Cross Pradanack Redruth Rogers SANCREED CHURCHYARD Sennen similar stone at Bleu symbol Templars Thomas Trenuggo Trevarno true cross Truro VELLANSAJER West of Cornwall ZENNOR CROMLECH
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Page 7 - Crosses, the author observes, these are in many instances not free from objection, and must of course be to some extent arbitrary ; since several which have a Greek cross on one face, have a Latin or Transition cross on the other ; and many which now have four equal parts, like the Greek cross, have evidently been broken off from the elongated shaft of the Latin : some indulgence is therefore solicited for the attempt at identification.
Page 60 - ... horizon, in such a manner that one corner is the lowest part, and one edge, the highest, is level ; the props being applied to the inclined sides only, shelter the interior for about two-thirds of its circumference, but leave the rest open. The flat-topped cromlechs are used indifferently as altars or as seats, for I have observed rice and flowers, as offerings, often laid on them ; and just as frequently I have seen the natives sitting and resting their burdens on them ; the inclined ones are...
Page 6 - Eugenius III., at Paris in 1 146, on the commencement of the second Crusade. Both Orders held lands in Cornwall, and the peculiar form of their cross, which occurs in some few instances in the county, may possibly have been introduced by them. Crosses were used from an early period of the Christian era, to the time of the Reformation, and their style varied in accordance with the different periods, from the most simple or even rude forms, to others more chaste and elegant. The Latin form of the cross...
Page 58 - ... stone benches or seats. D, the doorway, facing directly north, is two feet wide at the entrance, gradually extending to two feet eight inches within. An excavation, G, in the south-west corner, appears to have been used as a font, the water being supplied from the well above, and for which purpose there is an inlet in the wall at F. The drain marked H served to carry off the waste water. There are still some remains of the outer wall that enclosed the building when Catholicism was the national...
Page 6 - ... it is stated, received its first missionaries from Ireland, and it is not improbable that some of the crosses yet remaining, were set up in this district so early as the sixth century. The Cornish Britons continued separately distinct from the Saxons, to the period of the Conquest, when their lands were appropriated by the Norman chiefs ; and it is probable that the public monuments remained undisturbed and unprofaned until later times, when frequent changes occurred in the proprietary of the...
Page 7 - APRIL, 1856. 37 ture, or to mark the resting places of the corpse on the way to its interment. The churchyard crosses were not always monumental, for occasionally one was placed near the south or chief entrance to the church, suggestive of due preparation previously to entering the sacred building. Occasionally congregations were addressed by the priest, and proclamations made from such crosses. The crosses set up in market places had much the same purposes; from these, proclamations of war or peace,...
Page 58 - ... is a row of stones forming a step which divides the chancel from the nave. EE indicate the remains of the stone benches or seats. D, the doorway, facing directly north, is two feet wide at the entrance, gradually extending to two feet eight inches within. An excavation, G, in the south-west corner, appears to have been used as a font, the water being supplied from the well above, and for which purpose there is an inlet in the wall at F. The drain marked H served to carry off the waste water....
Page 60 - ... houses of the natives. It is divided within by railings into two unequal parts, of which the larger is for the priests, and the smaller for the worshippers ; a closed cell was observed in one side, and a quantity of ashes on the floor of the former ; the latter was empty. In front of this edifice were two small cromlechs of slate ; the larger is an oblong square, about 5 feet in length, and 2J feet in...
Page 8 - ... Master in Town," published in 1823, is the following note : — " Perhaps it may not be known, but I find it related in an old Manuscript that what appears a seat on the side of Maddern Well was called St. Maddern's Bed, on which the Patient who came to be cured, reclined. Those, who were benefitted, left a donation at Maddern Church for the Poor.
Page 7 - ... on his way. At these stations, the rich traveller often deposited alms for the succour of the poor or distressed wayfarer who might follow him. Many crosses still stand near the sites of churches or chapels which have long since been destroyed, and of which no other vestiges remain. All these varieties and their peculiarities, are severally graphically defined, and in reference to the divisions...