^NERAL MONUMENT in the Church at 
SULLEN, a Royal Borough of 
mre. 
HEN engaging in a fecond volume of this publication, it was judged proper to prefent 
f 0t ^ a fpecimen of another kind of monuments than what have hitherto engaged our notice, 
e °f which will be occalionally introduced. 
Th 
p re ^. e tombs of Wejlminfter- Abbey, and other cemeteries of England, have been defcribed with 
anc ^ delineated with elaborate care ; and though a folemn, have proved an acceptable 
foment to fuch as delight in thefe memorials of their forefathers. Thefe not only inform 
t :£ ' r c hara£fers, their merits, and their pious hopes, but fhewthe progrefs of tafte in defign, 
improvements in arts, as exprefled by the fculptures of thefe funeral honours 
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The 
Part' Nor ™ Britain alfo ferve to elucidate the general hiftory of the country, and 
tt) e £u!ar ly lend their aid to ihew the revolutions of principle which have fwayed the concerns of 
c lu rch and of religion here. . 
\v 0re Ulln S the Catholic eftablilhments in the fifteenth century, and while evangelical inftitutions 
pu r a< ^' n g as with primaeval influence, befides the fumptuous edifices confecrated to religious' 
fcats 5 at P ubbc ex p ei1 ce, almolt every noble and opulent family built chapels adjacent to their 
Utyjx’ ai H devoted lands to the officiating ecelefiaftics, that they might have eafier aecefs to the 
eries > and the more readily lhare in the folemnities of religion. 
Ea>-! 6 ° r thefe, dedicated to St. Ann, was built near to Cullen- Houfe, the family refidence of the 
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j'f Find later and Sea fie Id. The nobleman who laft enlarged and more copioufly adorned 
In ^ 1 ern aide, or altar end of it, appropriated a place for a family farcophagus in that farchiary, 
is gj v rn °. r y of him, and of that pious work, the monument was reared of which a reprefentaoion 
611 in the annexed plate. 
op ages of the Chriftian church it became an objeT of facrcd ambition to be buried unaer 
bei n aear to the Holy Altar as poffible. The cuflora firfl took its rife from the relics of taints 
a §Ua!> enfluine d in the fanauarics ; and in prccefs of time, the bodies of the canonized were 
.fc* de Pofited there.' What once was conftituted the high reward of fuperior fanaity, was 
Wv ^ r b y devout Princes, and Knights of religious orders, and became the diftinguifhed 
S e of the great and good. 
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^io P r «ent monument, in point of Gothic excellence and grandeur of defign, is not perhaps. 
ct 0 , v ; t0 a ny that Europe can boaft in a correfponding age. The fplendid enrichments that 
Pyramidal columns, in fpite of Architecture's Grecian rules, have a very elegant and 
tnto mb Ul The bas-reliefs are well raifed and minutely finifhed. i he figures of the 
Ce atral * n ^ ev °tional attitudes, are well rounded and correaiy drawn. I lie fculptures of the 
>H uri0n atl< ^ interior part, according to the ideas of early ages, have mod: learned and fublime 
>Hfc rib " T wo angels, guarding an altar-piece, on which the virtues of the deceafed are 
> Eeni to call the dead, reprefented by a fkeleton laid under the altar, to appear before 
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