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Culture, General Things, Church Monuments Books, Monumental Effigies of Great Britain, Effigy of Lady and Child

Effigy of Lady and Child is in Monumental Effigies of Great Britain.

THIS singular monument is in Scarcliffe Church, Derbyshire [Map]. The style in which it is executed shows it to be of the thirteenth century. The head is surmounted with a very elegant circlet, and rests on a couchant lion; the hair is disposed in braids; the tunic is confined at the neck by a large fermail or broach; a band appears to attach the mantle to the shoulders, and is held in the right hand; the mantle is caught up under the right arm. The left supports a male child, who displays a long scroll, on which has been inscribed in uncial characters some leonine verses, which are now much defaced.

HIC SV......MVLIER IACET INTVMVLATA:

CONSTANS.............:

...........PROLES RE....ERE HVMATA:

CVM PECC..............VACVATA:

CRIMINE PVRGATA CVM PROLE IOIIANNE BEATA:

.................DELOCATA. AMEN:

Details. 1. Profile of the head, showing the hair, &c. 2. The circlet enlarged.

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