THIS remarkable sculptured stone is about six feet in length. On the head of the figure is a cylindrical helmet: the apertures for the sight, and the weldings, or joints, are so arranged as to form a cross. This species of defence for the head was continued in use, with a slight variation in the form, until a much later period than that of the present subject^a. This effigy is in an attitude of defence: the shield is borne before the body, and in the right hand is the sword naked and erect. The surcoat extends only to the knee. The mails of the hauberk have either not been expressed, or are obliterated. The legs are crossed, designating a Crusader, and they appear to trample on a prostrate figure, intended, perhaps, for an infidel. At the right side is a couchant hound. The bearing on the shield is, barry, a bordure charged with bezants. These bearings do not belong to any family which are known to have existed in the North; the figure can therefore only be conjectured to represent one of the Lords of Whitworth. In one or two other places in the County are effigies sculptured in exactly similar costume, the work probably of the same hand^b.

Details. Profile. Plate 11. The top of the helmet.

Note a. See the real specimens extant. That of Edward the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral, delineated in this work. Two belonging to the Lords of Cobham are in the chancel of Cobham Church, Kent.

Note b. See Surtees's Durham, vol. III. p. 293, and the illustrative plates of that work.