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VI.—A Description of the Paintings in the Church of Kempley, near Ross

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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Kempley is about seven miles from Ross. It is in Gloucestershire, but on the borders of the county of Hereford, and was formerly in the diocese of Hereford, though now in that of Gloucester and Bristol. The church, which is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, is of the usual type of small parish churches of the Norman period, being made up of aisleless nave and chancel, the former about 34 feet by 19 feet, the latter about 18 feet by 14 feet, inside the walls. All the original walls remain, though most of the windows have been replaced by later ones, and a tower of the fifteenth century has been added at the west end. The chancel is roofed with a plain barrel-vault of rubble.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1880

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page 188 note a Rat. Div. Off. lib. i. cap. iii.

page 189 note a Archseologia, xxiv.

page 191 note a It has been the fashion for some years to use the word crozier for the cross which was carried before archbishops, and which effigies sometimes show in their hands. But it belongs properly to the bishop's crook.

page 191 note b I can find no real evidence for the flat circle with the hole in the middle, which is said to have been the earliest form of the chasuble. The conical shape seems to be primitive, and it was used in bothEast and West till the middle of the twelfth century.

page 191 note c Ulger died in 1149. The tomb is figured by Viollet-le-Duc, M., Dictionnaire du Mobilier, vol. ii. p. 224Google Scholar.