AIG writes:
What were the typical funerary adornments at this place and time? Maybe this is just a very poorly executed rendition of a fairly common and obvious graphic.
I don't know about funerary adornment of the time, but take a look at this list of some illustrations found elsewhere in Carlisle Cathedral! One would have to make a case for skeletal remains being found for all of these other 'animals'. In context of the whole, this particular 'dinosaur' certainly does lose its impact.
Description of the Interior of Carlisle Cathedral writes:
The hinged seats, known as misereres or misericordes, were constructed to keep the monks from falling asleep while at prayers. The carvings beneath these seats are of different designs, generally grotesque.
The following is a list of the subjects found carved thereon:”
NORTH SIDE
A dragon swallowing a man.
Bird and young.
Dragon and lions.
Three dragons, one with a human face.
Winged figure with a tabour.
Dragon devouring a bird.
Coronation of the Virgin.
Three griffins.
Pelican in its act of piety.
Dragon and lion fighting.
Griffin and two young ones.
Two dragons joined together.
Two storks eating out of a sack.
Figure with wings, claws, and human face.
Angelic musician.
Two eagles.
Double-headed eagle.
Fox and goose.
Two dragon bodies with a human head.
Angel playing an instrument.
A man with two eagles plucking his beard.
Dragon, and two lions with human faces.
SOUTH SIDE
Two angels.
Dragon.
Bird and beast fighting.
Human head on two animal bodies.
Winged dragon.
Winged serpent.
Two beasts with one head.
Two men fighting.
Griffin with human head.
Dragon and foliage.
Two eagles holding the head of a beast.
Fox and goose.
Human figure with four wings.
Man and dragon fighting.
Angel bearing a shield.
Angel and dragons.
Pelican in its act of piety.
Boar killing a man.
Man holding two dragons.
Dragon killing a beast.
Mermaid.
Dragon and lion in combat.
AIG writes:
What does the inscription say?
Read horizontally 'Hec spes mea in sinu meo'...is a verse from Job 19:27.
'Credo qd [sic] redemptor meus vivit'...part of the service for the Burial of the Dead, later a hymn by Robert Parsons and also put to music in an English version by J.F. Handel.
Of the other two inscriptions, one is the name, dates, etc, of the deceased with a simple
requiescat.
The other I can not make out so well, but basically tells us that the tomb holds the bones of Bell, and possibly contains some biographical info about his tenure as Bishop?
Anyway, no clues there in the inscription.
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