Saturday, September 26, 2009

St. Mary's and St. Cuthbert's






I know, Jeremy already posted about this, but I wanted to include pictures. You'll see my personal favorite panel of stained glass, which features St. George and the Dragon. You'll also see part of an Anglo-Saxon cross, which shows a man on horseback being attacked by a monster. The hole in the rock is called a Squint, and it's the only view of the outside work that an Anker would have. This particular Squint looks onto the World War 1 memorial, but it's not the best picture I've ever taken. The book cover is the cover to a replica of the Lindisfarne Gospels, which was written under the charge of St. Cuthbert. There's also a picture of one of the stone effigies in the church; there were no actual tombs in the church, just the lids of a few that one of the local lords had placed there as memorials to his family. The one in the picture has his legs crossed, which symbolizes that he went on Crusade.