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Article ST. SAVIOUR'S AND ITS MONUMENTS. ← Page 6 of 9 →
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St. Saviour's And Its Monuments.
Nor wealth , nor strength , nor great men's love can ease The wound death ' s arrowes make , for thou hast these . In thy king ' s court good place to thee is given , Whence thou shalt goe to the King ' s court of heaven . '
But the age Avhen such hyperbolic expressions and fulsome flatteries were tolerated and approved of by kings and courtiers alike , must be taken into consideration before too hasty judgment is passed upon them . Sentiments which , in these days of refinement , would be thought extravagant , were then regarded as the outpourings of elegant compliment , and were given ana Close to Trehearne '
received as matters of great courtesy . s tomb is the effigy of a Knight Templar , his head resting on a pillow , and his legs crossed ; in all probability the presentment of one ofthe two founders of the church , William Pont de l'Arche , or William Dauncy , before mentioned . Considering the th of time this figure must have been sculturedit is m
leng p , very good preservation , and is a remarkably fine specimen of the Avooden effigies of one of the valiant crusaders . A very singular little figure of a man in an emaciated state , Avhich , carved as it is in stone , looks ghastly enough , is fixed against the Avail , and is reported to be the similitude of one William Emerson , a dwarf , who lived to attain the great of ninety-two . The figureand
age , 'the shroud inclosing it , and the accompanying mat , are all very neatly cut , and afford an illustration of the progress of the art in the sixteenth century . In the bust of John Bingham , who was saddler to Queen Elizabeth ancl King James , we have a characteristic monumental trophy of those stiff-dressing days , when ruffs and farthingalesjerkins of expensive material and
, gaudy collars , were the mode . The dark-coloured jerkin of this courtly tradesman is contrasted with a bright red waistcoat ; the Avhite ruff stands out prominently beside the thick black beard and moustachios ; and the contour of the countenance and expression of the features , give an aspect of reality Avhich is not diminished by repeated inspection .
Those old sculptors knew the meaning of cause and effect , and must have studied diligently to produce such examples of their vocation as may be Avitnessed in so many of the churches of our land . Doubtless the costume of all classes of their countrymen , so various as they Avere , must have been of some assistance to themancl left but little for the imagination to fill
, up . Hence it is that the classic groups of antiquity , the marbles of old Greece and Rome , are more severe and more poetical ; in them the mind and fancy Avere equally called upon ; the adjuncts of dress were not required by the sculptor : Mercury ^ ivith liis caduceus and winged feet ; Venus , with her zone of
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St. Saviour's And Its Monuments.
Nor wealth , nor strength , nor great men's love can ease The wound death ' s arrowes make , for thou hast these . In thy king ' s court good place to thee is given , Whence thou shalt goe to the King ' s court of heaven . '
But the age Avhen such hyperbolic expressions and fulsome flatteries were tolerated and approved of by kings and courtiers alike , must be taken into consideration before too hasty judgment is passed upon them . Sentiments which , in these days of refinement , would be thought extravagant , were then regarded as the outpourings of elegant compliment , and were given ana Close to Trehearne '
received as matters of great courtesy . s tomb is the effigy of a Knight Templar , his head resting on a pillow , and his legs crossed ; in all probability the presentment of one ofthe two founders of the church , William Pont de l'Arche , or William Dauncy , before mentioned . Considering the th of time this figure must have been sculturedit is m
leng p , very good preservation , and is a remarkably fine specimen of the Avooden effigies of one of the valiant crusaders . A very singular little figure of a man in an emaciated state , Avhich , carved as it is in stone , looks ghastly enough , is fixed against the Avail , and is reported to be the similitude of one William Emerson , a dwarf , who lived to attain the great of ninety-two . The figureand
age , 'the shroud inclosing it , and the accompanying mat , are all very neatly cut , and afford an illustration of the progress of the art in the sixteenth century . In the bust of John Bingham , who was saddler to Queen Elizabeth ancl King James , we have a characteristic monumental trophy of those stiff-dressing days , when ruffs and farthingalesjerkins of expensive material and
, gaudy collars , were the mode . The dark-coloured jerkin of this courtly tradesman is contrasted with a bright red waistcoat ; the Avhite ruff stands out prominently beside the thick black beard and moustachios ; and the contour of the countenance and expression of the features , give an aspect of reality Avhich is not diminished by repeated inspection .
Those old sculptors knew the meaning of cause and effect , and must have studied diligently to produce such examples of their vocation as may be Avitnessed in so many of the churches of our land . Doubtless the costume of all classes of their countrymen , so various as they Avere , must have been of some assistance to themancl left but little for the imagination to fill
, up . Hence it is that the classic groups of antiquity , the marbles of old Greece and Rome , are more severe and more poetical ; in them the mind and fancy Avere equally called upon ; the adjuncts of dress were not required by the sculptor : Mercury ^ ivith liis caduceus and winged feet ; Venus , with her zone of