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Title: The grotesque in church art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Wildridge, Thomas Tindall
Subjects: Grotesque Christian art and symbolism Church decoration and ornament
Publisher: London, W. Andrews & co.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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are satires evidently aimed at sins, but which have not the visible attendance of the evil one himself. Among these must be included acurious carving from Swine, in Holder-ness. The priory of Swine was aCistercian nunnery of fifteen sisters anda prioress. Mr. Thomas Blashill states, There were, how-ever, two canons at least, to assist in the offices of religion,who did not refrain from meddling in secular affairs.*There was also a small community of lay-brethren. The female in the centre of the carving is a nun ; herhood is drawn partly over her face, so that only one eye isfully visible, but with the other eye she is executing a well-known movement of but momentary duration. The two uglyanimals between which she peers are intended for hares, asymbol of libidinousness, as well as of timidity. Another carving in the same chancel may be in derisionof some official of the papal court, which, in the thirteenthcentury, on an occasion of the contumacy of the nuns in * Sutton in-Holderness.
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SATIRES WITHOUT SATAN. 109 refusing to pay certain tithes, caused the church, with thatadjoining, of the lay brethren, to be closed. The nuns defiedall authority, broke open the chapels, and in general during

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