 | Benjamin Winkles - Cathedrals - 1842 - 406 pages
...sculptured a man and a lion in a grove of trees. No inscription remains, but tradition says this tomb covers the body of an Irish prince, who died at Ripon on his return home from the Holy Land. The other monuments worthy of notice, are those of Moses Fowler, first dean... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - Archaeology - 1846 - 460 pages
...TO» i» n»<>» c»i».i>»»ia black letter inscription that time has irretrievably mouldered from the vertical stone below. A century ago tradition...spaniel ; but, the precatory position of the man, who is habited as a pilgrim of the fourteenth century, rather induces me to suppose that the sculpture... | |
 | Thomas Moule - 1851 - 442 pages
...sculptured a man and a lion in a grove of trees. No inscription remains, but tradition says this tomb covers the body of an Irish prince, who died at Ripon on his return home from the Holy Land. The other monuments worthy of notice, are those of Moses Fowler, first dean... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Yorkshire (England) - 1867 - 644 pages
...inscription below ; but nothing is known of the history of the monument, beyond a tradition that it is that of an Irish prince who died at Ripon on his return from Palestine, bringing with him a lion which had followed him like a dog. (This story is recorded of Eoger de Mowbray,... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - Cathedrals - 1872 - 270 pages
...man kneeling, a lion, and a forest : and tradition a century since described it as covering the grave of an Irish prince, who died at Ripon on his return from Holy Land, whence he had brought the king of beasts, rendered tame as a dog, and following at the heels... | |
 | John Richard Walbran - Ripon (England) - 1875 - 298 pages
...cathedral, probably, can show three fonts in such close proximity. 59 Near the font, and contiguous to the wall, will be observed an ALTAR-TOMB covered with...with all the docility and faithfulness of a spaniel. It may be conjectured that on this stone it was the custom for the tenants of the Chapter to pay their... | |
 | Cathedrals - 1889 - 418 pages
...sculptured a man and a lion in a grove of trees. No inscription remains, but tradition says this tomb covers the body of an Irish prince, who died at Ripon on his return home from the Holy Land. The other monuments worthy of notice, are those of Moses Fowler, first dean... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - Abbeys - 1898 - 464 pages
...his knees, with a gigantic lion in a grove of trees in the foreground. Tradition says that it covers the body of an Irish prince, who died at Ripon on his return from Palestine, whence he brought a lion that followed him with all the docility of a spaniel. It may have been the custom for... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - Cathedrals - 1902 - 474 pages
...that of a man kneeling. Tradition states that it covered the body of an Irish prince, who died here on his return from Palestine, whence he had brought a lion that followed him like a dog. There is some old glass, fragments of which have been collected in the window near the... | |
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... passage, in which is a staircase, now walled up, leading to the choir. The most remarkable monument in this Cathedral, is an altar tomb of grey marble in the south aisle of the nave, on which are sculptured a man and a lion in a grove of trees. No... 