"Sculptured Stone at Codford St. Peter;' 8fc. 139 



145; London, Bohn, 1845. Compare also the bamboo frame 

 on the organ depicted in the illustration of Psalm cxlviii. (149), in 

 the Utrecht Psalter, copied in Westwood's Facsimiles; London, 

 Quaritch, 1S6S. In the illustrations of the Bodleian MS. of Caed- 

 mon, as re-produced in Archseologia, vol. xxiv., there are no traces 

 of bamboo or baluster-form in the pillars, but in the illustrations of 

 the Benedictional of St. Ethelwold, reproduced in the same volume, 

 there is some resemblance to this form in plates xiv. and xvi. The 

 slipper-shaped shoe is well illustrated, Jbid, plates, xvi., xxviii., 

 xxix., xxx. For bamboo form of pillars compare also the window 

 in tower, Earls' Barton Church, Northamptonshire, engraved in 

 Rickman's Architecture, App., p. xix. ; London, J. H. Parker, 1848. 

 In the side elevation the foliage ornament is carved with much skill 

 and freedom. 



The foregoing notes are nearly the same as those which I read 

 when I exhibited full-sized drawings of the front and side elevations 

 at an ordinary meeting of the Society of Antiquaries, London, 20th 

 June, 1878. Those notes were printed in the Proceedings, 2nd S., 

 vol. vii.. No. v., pp. 429, 430, but without any illustrative engraving. 

 I now submit a reduced autotype plate of the two elevations to the 

 Wilts Archaeological Society, in the hope that the subject of the 

 sculpture may yet be identified, sooner or later. The persistence 

 and wide-spread prevalence of certain treatments of religious subjects 

 in early times are remarkable. Moderns commonly ascribe this to 

 poverty of invention and want of drawing skill. The truth seems 

 to be that early Christian artists preferred to be orthodox and gene- 

 rally intelligible rather than original. About the year 1845 I was 

 permitted to copy some painted glass in the tracery of a fourteenth 

 century window in Great Milton Church, Oxfordshire, representing 

 two angels with a dead body wrapped in a cere-cloth, looking much 

 like a mummy, except that the place of the eyes and nose was 

 marked so as to form a cross. The subject was a great puzzle at 

 the time. It was conjectured to represent angels discoursing over 

 the body of Lazarus, &c. More than ten years afterwards, in pe- 

 rusing Mrs. Jameson's work, I discovered, from a small wood-cut there 

 given, that it was the conventional way of representing the Burial 



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