The cottages and the village life of rural England (1912) (14756742316)

Identifier: cu31924014023463 (find matches)

Title: The cottages and the village life of rural England

Year: 1912 (1910s)

Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 Quinton, A.R

Subjects: Cottages Villages

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & sons ltd. New York, E.P. Dutton & co.

Contributing Library: Cornell University Library

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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you of other Norman doorways, of the recessed sides withtheir two or three orders, the finely wrought arch, of the shaftswith their capitals that form the sides, and of the amazing numberand variety of these carved tympana.* You may learn much fromthe imagery and symbolic lessons conveyed by their rude carvings.Thus, over a Norman arch we often find a row of curious, hideousbird-like heads with beaks. These are called beak-heads, andwere doubtless intended to represent the birds of the air in ourLords parable of the sower, which were ready to dart down andpluck out the good seed that had been sown during the servicein the church, from the heart of the faithless or indifferent listener.Very demoniacal they look, these impish birds, a terror to the weak, * Mr. Charles E. Keyser has made a special study of Norman tympana andvisited nearly every church in the kingdom where one exists. His researcheshave been recorded in his book on Norman Doorways and Sculptured Tympana (Elliot Stock). 80

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Cottages at Dunster, Somerset. LIFE OF RURAL ENGLAND unstable minds who have allowed the golden words of truth tofall in vain. Sometimes cottages possess these fine old Norman doorways.At Sherborne, in Gloucestershire, a cottage has one that wasbrought from a disused chapel. It has a chamfered hood-mouldadorned with pellets and saw-tooth, zigzag and chevrons. Beak-heads, too, appear at the sides, and there is a shaft with a scallopedcapital, and a tympanum with a plain Maltese cross in the centreand another more ornate cross on either side. The same cottagehas another Norman doorway at the back. It is perhaps hardlyfair to this cottage to disclose these relics of Norman builders,as I expect collectors and architects will sweep down uponit and carry off the doorways. I will even venture to describeanother cottage that boasts of a Norman doorway. It is atBuckland Fields, in the same county of Gloucester, and thevery beautiful doorway is said to have been brought from thedestroyed church

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