THE MONUMENTS AND REGISTERS OF LOCAL CHURCHES. 263 
THE MONUMENTS AND REGISTERS OF SOME OF 
OUR LOCAL CHURCHES. 
BY ARTHUR J. JEWERS, F.S.A. 
(Read December 10th, 1885.) 
Our subject is the Monuments and Registers of some of the 
churches in this neighbourhood. It will be these, and not the 
churches themselves, that will be treated of in this paper. The 
monuments in a church must always have an interest apart from 
their genealogical value. Like architecture and dress, they have 
their different periods—from the simple coffin-shaped stone, on 
which later we find a cross cut, and at the top of which after 
a time appears a head, or larger portion of the human figure, 
which developes into the recumbent effigy. These reached their 
richest state in the Tudor period, and with that age died out. 
Mural monuments of large size—generally with arched canopies, 
and often with semi-recuinbent or kneeling figures—date from the 
time of James L, and disappear with the House of Stuart. 
Brasses, either on the floor or on table or altar tombs, were in use 
from the beginning of the thirteenth century, but fell into disuse 
about the first quarter of the seventeenth. There is in the 
church of St. Columb Major a brass for John Arundell, Esq., 
who died July 22nd, 1633; but memorials of this kind are 
seldom met with so late. About the middle of the eighteenth 
century was introduced the style—if it can be called one—of 
angular slabs of cold white marble, still much affected. We have 
said nothing of coloured glass, which, prior to the Reformation, was 
much used for the display of commemorative shields, and sometimes 
the portraiture of the deceased, with the pious injunction, “Pro 
animo,” preceding the name, which led to their general destruction 
by the Puritans and others in the seventeenth century. 
It does not, however, come within our limits to deal with 
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