AT THE

Monumental Architecture

AND SCULPTURE

OF

GREAT BRITAIN,

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE EIGHTEENTH

CENTURY.

BY

MATTHEW HOLBECHE BLOXAM.

LONDON:

W. PICKERING, CHANCERY LANE;
J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, PARLIAMENT STREET;
AND T. COMBE, JUN. LEICESTER.

M.DCCC.XXXIV.

32.

OTHE

· BIBL

"NEQUE assentior iis, qui hæc nuper disserere cœperunt, cum corporibus simul animos interire, atque omnia morte deleri. Plus apud me antiquorum auctoritas valet, vel nostrorum majorum; qui mortuis tam religiosa jura tribuerunt; quod non fecissent profecto, si nihil ad eos pertinere arbitrarentur.”

LEICESTER:

Printed by Thomas Combe, Junior.

CICERO.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I.

Of the Sepulchral Remains of the Celtic and Belgic Britons,

CHAPTER II.

Of the Sepulchral Remains of the Romans in Britain,

CHAPTER III.

Of the Sepulchral Remains of the Romanized Britons and early Saxons,

CHAPTER IV.

Of the different modes of Preparing the Dead for Interment, from the

Seventh to the Seventeenth Century,

CHAPTER V.

Of the Funeral Solemnities of the Middle Ages,

CHAPTER VI.

Of the Sepulchral Monuments in Britain, from the Earliest Period to

the Norman Invasion,

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CHAPTER VII.

Of Sepulchral Monuments, from the Norman Invasion to the Thir