134 On the Church of St. Peter, Manningford Bruce, TFiltshire. 



6. The sixth point, the space at the east end devoid of window, 

 has been already treated under the head of ground-plan. 



7. The three consecration, crosses, discovered under whitewash, at 

 the east end, on the concjive wall of the apse, about 7ft. 5in. above 

 the floor, are very interesting'. At Salisbury Cathedral, dedicated 

 A.D. 1225, and at Edington Church, dedicated A.D. 1361, there 

 are remains of external consecration crosses on their east walls. 

 These are formed by a cross pattee bounded by a circle and have 

 formerly been inlaid with metal. ^ 



It would appear that in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries 

 it was customary to make internal consecration crosses of the same 

 form as those remaining on the outside of Salisbury Cathedral and 

 other Churches. Mr. Street has described the finding of a painted 

 cross pattee enclosed within a circle on the inside of the east wall of 

 the Church of St. Mary, Stowe, near Dartford. It was red on a 

 white ground, and outlined with black ^ 



The internal crosses at Manningford Bruce are formed by strokes 

 of red colour about 5in long, and of a uniform breadth of fin., 

 crossing each other at right angles. These primitive-looking crosses 

 are inclosed, with a proportionate intervening space, by a quatrefoil 

 bounded by a double circle. 



Quatrefoils, and circles, sometimes double, were used artistically 

 as pictorial decorations in the tenth century, as may be seen by a 

 reference to the Benedictional of St. Ethelwold in the Archseologia, ' 

 and Professor Westwood's Facsimiles.* 



They are also found in early Byzantine architecture.^ 



* Also at Uffington Church, Berks, Pugin's Glossary, article " Conseci-ation 

 Crosses." Also at Potterne, Wilts, and Shoreham, Sussex. 



2 Some account of the Church of St. Mary, Stowe, near Dartford, by George 

 Edmund Street, F.S.A., Archteologia Cantiana, vol. iii., p. 126 ; London, J. E. 

 Taylor, 1866. 



•* For double circles with cross, see Archajologla, vol. xxiv., plate xxv., p. 102. 



* Anglo-Saxon and Irish MSS., plate xv. ; London, Quaritch, 1868. For quatre- 

 foils with crosses, 'and for circles, see PaliEographia sacra. Gospels of Canute, 

 No. 23 ; London, Bohn, 1845. 



^ Texier, plates xxv. and Ixiii ; London, Day & Son, 186 J.. 



