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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… on a beast, marginal inscription in Lombardic capitals. Coffin: In N. chapelunder effigy, of Purbeck marble, with shaped head and three drain holes, 13th-century. Coffin-lids: In N. chapelat E. end, (1) of Purbeck marble … foliated cross and moulded edge, probably belonging to coffin described above, much defaced, 13th-century; (2) of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… marginal inscription in Lombardic capitals, 14th-century. Coffin-lid: In navewith moulded edge and raised cross, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… 12th-century scalloped capital bearing a sundial of 1739. Coffin-lids: In porch(1) tapering slab with enriched cross …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… had a bellshaped glass vase that was found in a stone coffin among ashes in digging the foundations of the …
Old and New London
… of Richmond's little chapel, by his tomb, lieth visibly a coffin covered with red leather, and unburied, wherein is the … Edward I., surnamed 'Long Shanks,' was interred in a stone coffin, inclosed in a stone tomb, in the above chapel, and … The head itself was lodged in the cavity of the stone coffin, always observable in those receptacles of the dead. . …
Old and New London
… not help fixing my eyes, as long as I remained, upon the coffin of Lord Chatham, beneath whose monument we were … array lest his remains should be insulted. Lord Chatham's coffin, so it was reported, was found on its side when the … slime, but could hardly have overturned a heavy leaden coffin." Not far from the monument of Pitt sleeps his great …
Old and New London
… been literally built into the masonry of the wall, without coffin or any enclosure except the linen shroud in which it … crozier. The remains were afterwards placed in an elm coffin and reinterred near the place where they were …
Old and New London
… to the genius of the mighty slumberer by gazing on his coffin-lid. After the lying in state had terminated, it was … the purpose of placing it in a better constructed leaden coffin than that which had been prepared in Greece. A friend … candles. Soon after my arrival, the work of opening the coffin commenced. This was soon effected, and when the last …
Old and New London
… parade-ground was stationed the funeral car, whereon the coffin being placed, and the command given, the cortge, in a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… steps, medival, small sundial, dated 1649, set on top. Coffin-lids: In nave in sill of N.E. window, portion only …