Identifier: cathedralsabbeys01bonn (find matches)
Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Church architecture Abbeys Church architecture
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ation, in the shape of trefoil-headed panels, which follow the bendof the arches, where, in the centre, they meet and are finished off by shields ofarms. Other shields bear the rebus of Abbot Peter de Rampisham, who commencedthe rebuilding of the nave in 1475, and finished it in 1490. There is quite afeast of early heraldry in Slierborne Abbey. Upon the bosses of the nave roof aremany badges, devices, and ciphers; among them the H and E, connected by atrue-lovers knot, of Henry VII. and Elizabeth of York; St. Michael and theDragon; and the Pelican in her piety, to use the picturesque expression employedin heraldry to describe a pelican feeding her young. It is to the fine vaulted roofof its nave that Sherborne Abbey owes much of its beauty. It adds height tothe entire church, and bestows grace and lightness where they were most needed. The choir of Sherborne Abbey is very interesting. So large a sum—£18,000—was spent upon its restoration by the late Mr. G. D. W. Digby that it was
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w H CO 2 WZ o w w DoucHESTKH.) CARVED )VORK. 319 inevitable it .slioukl bear traces oi sweeping- and garnishing. It leaves the im-pression of being a little too new; bat no violence ajjpears to have been(lone to the ancient features. The beautiful roof is famous for its grace andelegance, and for the wealth of its enrichments. It is a groined roof withcinquefoil panels; and the bosses and badges have been coloured, and the com-partments picked out with gold and broAvn. The fan-vaulting is sown about withlilies, the emblem of St. Mary, to whom the chuich is dedicated. Some portionsof the walls still bear obvious marks of the fire which destroyed a great part ofthe church in 143G. The miserere-carvings are among the most interestino- thinjis DO O O in the building. The work is rude, no doubt, but it is bold and effective,difficult conceptions, such as the fantastic figure of Christ upon a Rainbow, beinggraphically executed with a few vigorous lines. There are some grotesque heads,and an

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