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Excerpt from The Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Vol. 13: Established 1843, for the Encouragement and Prosecution of Researches Into the Arts and Monuments of the Early and Middle Ages The late Mr. Carter, to whom the antiquarian world is under so many obligations, has most fortunately handed down to us, in the first volume of his Ancient Sculpture and Painting, slight but most instructive etchings of every statue, in the order in which they still stand, and in the state in which they were at the close of the last century, the plates being dated 1784-5-6. They amount, in number, to one hundred and fifty-two, exclusive of that of bishop Bubwith, on the north-west tower, erected at a later period. Of these there are twenty-one crowned kings, presuming two headless statues to have been originally so distinguished; eight crowned queens; thirty-one mitred ecclesiastics; seven armed knights; fourteen princes or nobles, in various costumes of the twelfth century; the remainder consist of male and female ecclesiastical and secular personages, saints, apostles, angels, and the muti lated images of the Virgin Mary and the first and second Persons of the Holy Trinity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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