Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels · London : Rivingtons · leaf 101
97 NO. II. LICH-STONES. which these Lich-Gate rooms were sometimes erected. In Corn- wall it is not customary to bear the corpse on the shoulders, but to carry the coffin, under-handed, by white cloths passed beneath, and through the handles and this partly explains the peculiar arrangement for… … SSlhtnob, ContfoalL attached to it, and frequently without even a gate. The Stone is either oblong with the ends of equal width, or it is the shape of the ancient coffins, narrower at one end than the other, hut without any bend at the shoulder. It is placed in the centre, having stone seats on…
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