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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1907. Excerpt: ... creature we are now considering, but the body is not unlike, and it has a foliated tail. Still I think the St Mary Church beast is more likely to be a wild ass; the fan-shaped tail would be just the artistic touch that would differentiate it from the domestic ass. Whatever the animal may be, it is clearly intended to represent a sinner seeking refuge under the wing of the Church. The font of St. Michael's, Alphington, presents a wealth of decorative imagery. Emile Male, in L'Art RUigieux, has a passage, which in connection with this font is so suggestive that I append a translation:-- "The Anglo-Saxon manuscripts are astonishing ara"besques, inextricable mazes, wherein monsters and warriors "pursue one another as across the primaeval forest. The "English monks of the sixth century, who, in a half dream, "created this strange decorative art, were Christians, who "still retained all the obscure paganism of the Germanic "races. The old monsters still lived in the deep recesses of "their souls; under their pen, quite involuntarily, the fabu"lous serpents of the marshes, the winged dragons which "guarded treasure in the woods and defended them against "heroes, revived." The designs on the Alphington font appear to have been partly inspired by these illuminations. On the south-east side are two panels representing St. Michael's combat with the dragon; this is an unusual subject on a font, but may be accounted for by the circumstance that the church is dedicated to St. Michael. The convolutions of the dragon are extremely intricate; the tail divides into two parts, and may be traced curling about round two or three panels on each side. I regret this is not shown in my drawing, as some of the interlacements have been left out. Most of the subjects of the other panels on the font must have b...
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