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



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

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



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

 the east end, on the concave wall of the apse, about 7ft. 5in. aboveel 

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

 A.D. 1£25, 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 j | 

 formerly been inlaid with metal. 1 



It would appear that in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries [ 

 it was customary to make internal consecration crosses of the samel 

 form as those remaining on the outside of Salisbury Cathedral and I 

 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 j 

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

 white ground, and outlined with black. 2 



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 j 

 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, 3 

 and Professor Westwood's Facsimiles. 4 



They are also found in early Byzantine architecture. 5 



1 Also at Uffington Church, Berks, Pugin's Glossary, article " Consecration I 

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



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

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

 Taylor, 1866. 



3 For double circles with cross, see Archseologia, vol. xxiv., plate xxv., p. 102. ' 



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

 foils with crosses, 'and for circles, see Palseographia sacra, Gospels of Canute, i 

 No. 23 ; London, Bohn, 1845. 



5 Texier, plates xxv. and lxiii ; London, Day & Son, 1864. 



