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Title: Devon & Cornwall notes & queries
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Amery, John S
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Publisher: Exeter, England : J.G. Commin
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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one to be quite sure about the species; the main designand the sinister terminal appear to be strawberry leaves,and the dexter terminal to be maple, but possibly they areall maple, and the improved workmanship of the dexterterminal shows what the rest ought to have been. It is a pity this inferior work should be in such animportant position, in the Precentors stall, which before therestoration of 1871 contained the fine piece of work now inNo. 47. I have referred to this point before (p. 9). Oak Leaves (No 3). Here we have the favourite Decorated subject of oakleaves and acorns springing from a satyrs mask, one branchfrom each ear, and one from a ring in the middle of theforehead. The terminals are dragonesque creatures curled upamongst oak leaves, carved with great delicacy and precision.This undoubted feature of the Decorated period leads to theopinion that it is the latest of the misericords, except Nos. 1and 43, which are not of the thirteenth century at all, asmentioned above. 46
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THE MISERICORDS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL. The fifty misericords have now been passed in review.Anyone who has been patient enough to read as far as thiswill, I think, have been struck by the great variety in thesubjects, whether figure or ornament. On the other hand,there are also to be noted various points of resemblance, someof which have already been mentioned. Much more could bedone in this respect; without doubt an expert would be ableto sort them out and assign each to the approximate date. Iam a very long way from being an expert, still there are a fewpoints to which I should like to draw attention, premising thatmy remarks do not claim to be authoritative, but onlysuggestive. Naturally any repetition would be more likely to occur inthe terminals. By using the word repetition it is by nomeans implied that two examples are replicas, only that incomposition and the general arrangement of parts theyfollow the same model, and lead to the conclusion that theyemanated from the same brain.

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