.) The Nativity.
(5.) The Visitation.
(6.) Herod decreeing the Massacre of the Innocents.
#The Ninth Bay.--No. 9.#
(1.) The Flight into Egypt.
(2.) Christ in the midst of the Doctors.
(3.) The Marriage in Cana of Galilee.
(4.) The Baptism of Our Lord.
(5.) The Raising of Lazarus.
(6.) The Supper in Bethany.
#The Tenth Bay.--No. 10.#
(1.) Christ's Entry into Jerusalem.
(2.) Circular Hole for Descent of Thurible.
(3.) Our Lord sending forth the Disciples.
(4.) The Last Supper.
(5.) Disciples preparing for the Foot-washing.
(6.) Our Lord washing Peter's Feet.
#The Eleventh Bay.--No. 11.#
(1.) Our Lord in Gethsemane.
(2.) Christ crowned with Thorns.
(3.) Christ led to Pilate.
(4.) Christ before Pilate.
(5.) Christ Blindfolded.
(6.) Christ Betrayed.
#The Twelfth Bay.--No. 12.#
(1.) Christ taken to the House of the High Priest.
(2.) Christ nailed to the Cross.
(3.) The Soldiers casting Lots.
(4.) The Crucifixion.
(5.) The Entombment.
(6.) Christ in Hades.
#The Thirteenth Bay.--No. 13.#
(1.) Soldiers watching the Holy Sepulchre.
(2.) The Resurrection.
(3.) Three Apostles.
(4.) The Ascension.
(5.) The Virgin praying.
(6.) The Day of Pentecost.
#The Fourteenth Bay.--No. 14.#
(1.) A Miracle of Exorcism.
(2.) The Jaws of Hell.
(3.) The Drunkard's Doom.
(4.) The Last Judgment.
(5.) St. Peter.
(6.) The Holy Trinity.
(7.) Bishop Lyhart, the Builder of the Vault.
To all those who take an interest in early stone cutting, this vault of
Norwich is a store of inexhaustible treasure; the bosses, rudely cut as
they are, tell their own tales with singular truth and directness. Their
sculpture may not display the anatomical knowledge of the work of the
Renaissance; yet it has a distinct decorative value that has been seldom
equalled in the later decadent period. The fourteen large central bosses
on the main longitudinal ribs present in themselves an epitome not only
of Bible history, but of the connecting incidents forming the theme of
Christian teaching. In the tenth bay, on the longitudinal rib, there is,
in place of a boss, a circular hole through the vault. It is supposed to
have been formed to allow a thurible to be suspended therefrom into the
church below. Harrod, quoting from Lambard's "Topographical Dictionary,"
says: "I myself, being a child, once saw in Poule's Church at London, at
a feast of Whitsontide, wh
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