Symbolism of Animals And Birds Represented in English Church Architecture
Symbolism of Animals And Birds Represented in English Church Architecture
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
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George, which we find on our coins, is seldom departed from, though there is a woodcut in Parker's Calendar of the Prayer Book of an illustration from a Bodleian Library manuscript, where the beast that is being slain is more human in appearance than the usual dragon. It is sometimes rather difficult to ascertain when we have a representation of S. George and the dragon, and when we have one of S. Michael and the dragon, but the former is generally on horseback, and of course without wings. On ...a sepulchral monument at Conings- borough, Yorks, S. George is on foot with sword and shield, and the dragon stands menacing the saint with twisted snake-headed stings. It has its claws on a fallen human being. 173 Digitized by CjOOQ IC SYMBOLISM OF ANIMALS IN The tympana of Ruardean, Gloucestershire, and Brinsop, Hereford, are almost exactly similar to one another in treatment. S. George's military cloak flies back in the wind, and the costume generally and the carving of the horse are alike in both cases, but the Brinsop example has two more or less mutilated birds (?
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