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Identifier: symbolismanimals00coll (find matches)
Title: Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Collins, Arthur H
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism Animals in art Church architecture -- Details Church decoration and ornament
Publisher: London : Sir I. Pitman
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE are like our pictures and carvings in almostevery detail. In the reliefs, Seth Typhon,representing darkness, is shown as a crocodile.Further, the same author imagines that itwas from Egypt that the myth of S. Georgespread over the whole of Christendom.April 23rd is the day set apart both forHorus and S. George. The usual emblematic representation ofS. George, which we find on our coins, isseldom departed from, though there is awoodcut in Parkers Calendar of the PrayerBook of an illustration from a Bodleian Librarymanuscript, where the beast that is beingslain is more human in appearance than theusual dragon. It is sometimes rather difficult to ascertainwhen we have a representation of S. Georgeand the dragon, and when we have one ofS. Michael and the dragon, but the former isgenerally on horseback, and of course withoutwings. On a sepulchral monument at Conings-borough, Yorks, S. George is on foot withsword and shield, and the dragon standsmenacing the sain

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