Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (1900) (14578177408)

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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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£mmota oc 1ba6tinfl6 gist ici 2)ev De 6a Blme elt /nbCtCi. • . The head of this lady and the cross fleury are in boldrelief. These slabs are. also illustrated and described in our Transactions,vol. iii., pp. 30, 32. There are other fragments. The rude stonecoffin in which Button laid his father to rest in 1299 is also shown. Mrs. Bagnell-Oakeley has kindly given the following account of thesefigures:— In the chapel on the north side of the nave are two diminutivesepulchral effigies of canons in their choir dress 3 feet long, viz.: A cope
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BOSSES ON CHANCEL ROOF, BITTON.Lent by the Rev. Canon Ellacombe. worn over a surplice and almuce with long furred hood and ends. On theone figure the hoods of both cope and almuce are visible; the latter islying on the pillow which supports his head, and the former looks like alarge flat collar. On the other effigy the hood of the almuce is worn overthe head like a cowl. Near these figures is the lower portion of anotherof the same size vested in alb and chasuble, and with the end of whatlooks like a pall showing over it. (Qy.—Was there anyone connectedwith Bitton who had the pall ?) 64 Transactions for the Year 1900. In this church there is a slab of marble which is partly recessed andpartly in low relief. It represents a knight in an entire .suit of mail-without any mixture of plate, and a surcoat over it, early 13th century. The remarks of the late Mr. E. A. Freeman on the occasion of avisit of the Somerset Archaeological Association to Bitton, in 1876,and reprinted in our Transa