Identifier: transactionsofbr02bris (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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seem to have been carefully pre-pared, though they aie not so full in respect to references to Inquisitions,Wills, and other documentary evidence, as we like to see ; and, moreover,there is one considerable drawback to their usefulness, at least in thecomfort of using them, from their having been printed on large sheets andso folded that, in many cases, it is imjiossible to open them without injury.Moreover, folded sheets alwaj^s make a book look very untidy. Thearms, the printing of which is a new feature in this edition, are veryboldly drawn and well engraved. m2 104 Notices or Ef/Ent ARrH.i^^oLOOTCAL Prr.LicATioNS. Tlie space at our disposal will not admit of onr entering upon alengthened notice of this work, but we would wish to lay before our readersthree Saxon Crosses now existing at Ilkley. These three crosses are nowplaced on the south side of the churchyard, as they are shewn in thefollowing engraving, for which, and for the other engravings, we areindebted to the publishers.
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These crosses have been descrilicd l)y tlielate Mr. Wardell as under :— That in the centre is the most entire, and is about eii^ht feet in height;the others have been seriously mutilated by having been, at one time,made use of aa gate-posts, but are now, it is hoped, placed beyond thereach of furthur injury. Those venerable relics are sepnlchural monu-ments of the Saxon period, and of the same description as those of which only Notices of Recemt Akcii.-eological Publications. 165 a few fragments remain at Leeds, Dewsbury, and other places. They arcelaborately carved with scroll-work and Mith figures of men, birds, andanimals. The centre one, which is sixteen inches by fourteen inches at thebase, tapering to eleven inches square at the top, bears, on the north side,the symbols of the Evangelists in oblong compartments, human figures inflowing robes, each with the head of the animal which is his symbol, sur-rounded by a glory and holding a book of his gospel. St. John, the upper-most,

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