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walls with spots, they were selected, as being more valuable than theothers, and wrought into devices, relieving the plainness of those piers orsurfaces which had neither apertures nor stone dressings. Many ex-amples of this kind of ornament could be given, but perhaps those in theboundary walls of the ancient manor-house at Bermondsey , referred toby Mr. J. C. Buckler , in his interesting account of Eltham Palace,recently published, are the most striking. They consisted of lozenges,with crosses upon their upper points; cross-keys and sword (the armsof the see of Winchester); the sacred cross, curiously constructed; thecross of St. Andrew; intersected triangles, in allusion to the Holy Trinity ; the globe and cross; the merchant’s mark; the badge of theborough of Southwark; and the representation of the west front of achurch,' comprising a centre, with a Norman arch under a gable,between two towers, whose pointed roofs terminated in crosses. Thisrude figure was seven feet eight inches long; and Mr. Buckler con-jectures that it preserved an imperfect idea of the sacred edifice ofNorman architecture which once occupied that site.

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