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MEMORIAL CROSSES FOR QUEEN ELEANOR.
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rc Project in trefoil-headed radiations, and the pedimental weatherings exhibit
remains of crockets, in bold relief, representing oaken foliage, which terminated
rich groupings, or finials, of a plume-like form."
t 10ugh the monument of Aymer de Valence is very similar, in its general design,
° that of the Countess Aveline, as already stated, yet the details are more elaborate,
Well as more numerous; and there is a remarkable peculiarity attending
o^e e®§y> which has but very few parallels in monumental sculpture. At the head
*ne earl was a group of three small figures, now much broken, and the upper
Parts gone, the middlemost of which is raised higher than the other two, and seated
n their conjoined hands.34 The ornamental groining of the under side of the
an°Py concentrates in a rose.
Th
ne monument of Queen Eleanor differs from all the others, not only in having
^w°oden horizontal canopy in place of an arched one of stone, but likewise from
q e st-atue, or effigy, of the Queen, being of gilt copper. It lies upon a flat plate,
r ^ble; of the same metal, which is diapered with the arms of Castile and Leon,
ln lozenges. The tomb itself is of Petworth marble, now in a very crumbling
ate . each side is divided by small buttresses into six compartments of shallow
0l*-headed panels, having high pediments ornamented with crockets and finials ;
J1^ lri every panel is a large shield, dependent from oak and vine branches, sculp-
ed with the arms of Edward the First, of Castile and Leon, and of Ponthieu, in al-
/Date succession. The style of these ornaments, and of the work generally, is exactly
^uilar to that of the splendid memorial Crosses which the pious affection of Edward
6 First induced him to erect for his regretted Queen at every place where her
■Hay away, in his " Observations on English Architecture," p. 28, edit. 1806, remarks, that " We
jlle^attr^ute the universal, if not the original introduction of the elaborate canopies and minute orna-
to th USe^ m tom^s» sepulchral chapels, and the shrines of saints, commonly called 'tabernacle-work,'
nia(j 6 ^r°sses erected by Edward I. in honour of his beloved consort." But this conclusion has been
hav ,W'thout
sufficiently attending to existing remains ; the monument of the Countess Aveline must
sev 6611 Prior in uate> Pr°kably by twenty years, to the cruciform memorials for Queen Eleanor ; and
q others might be specified of a like style, though not so elaborate, of a period anterior to the
H G
(]6Ce °u&h> in " Sepulchral Monuments," Vol. 1, P. ii. p. 84, describes this group as the soul of the
ljitlco]6 ^ suPported by angels, ascending to heaven, " as in the monument of John, Lord Welles, at
135
rc Project in trefoil-headed radiations, and the pedimental weatherings exhibit
remains of crockets, in bold relief, representing oaken foliage, which terminated
rich groupings, or finials, of a plume-like form."
t 10ugh the monument of Aymer de Valence is very similar, in its general design,
° that of the Countess Aveline, as already stated, yet the details are more elaborate,
Well as more numerous; and there is a remarkable peculiarity attending
o^e e®§y> which has but very few parallels in monumental sculpture. At the head
*ne earl was a group of three small figures, now much broken, and the upper
Parts gone, the middlemost of which is raised higher than the other two, and seated
n their conjoined hands.34 The ornamental groining of the under side of the
an°Py concentrates in a rose.
Th
ne monument of Queen Eleanor differs from all the others, not only in having
^w°oden horizontal canopy in place of an arched one of stone, but likewise from
q e st-atue, or effigy, of the Queen, being of gilt copper. It lies upon a flat plate,
r ^ble; of the same metal, which is diapered with the arms of Castile and Leon,
ln lozenges. The tomb itself is of Petworth marble, now in a very crumbling
ate . each side is divided by small buttresses into six compartments of shallow
0l*-headed panels, having high pediments ornamented with crockets and finials ;
J1^ lri every panel is a large shield, dependent from oak and vine branches, sculp-
ed with the arms of Edward the First, of Castile and Leon, and of Ponthieu, in al-
/Date succession. The style of these ornaments, and of the work generally, is exactly
^uilar to that of the splendid memorial Crosses which the pious affection of Edward
6 First induced him to erect for his regretted Queen at every place where her
■Hay away, in his " Observations on English Architecture," p. 28, edit. 1806, remarks, that " We
jlle^attr^ute the universal, if not the original introduction of the elaborate canopies and minute orna-
to th USe^ m tom^s» sepulchral chapels, and the shrines of saints, commonly called 'tabernacle-work,'
nia(j 6 ^r°sses erected by Edward I. in honour of his beloved consort." But this conclusion has been
hav ,W'thout
sufficiently attending to existing remains ; the monument of the Countess Aveline must
sev 6611 Prior in uate> Pr°kably by twenty years, to the cruciform memorials for Queen Eleanor ; and
q others might be specified of a like style, though not so elaborate, of a period anterior to the
H G
(]6Ce °u&h> in " Sepulchral Monuments," Vol. 1, P. ii. p. 84, describes this group as the soul of the
ljitlco]6 ^ suPported by angels, ascending to heaven, " as in the monument of John, Lord Welles, at