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Title: Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Collins, Arthur H
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism Animals in art Church architecture Church decoration and ornament
Publisher: London : Sir I. Pitman & sons,ltd.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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00 ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE luring his victim to destruction by bodilyand sensual delights. The bear is sometimes to be found muzzledon Norman corbels. Here, too, the applicationis obvious. The devil when muzzled cannotdo much harm. The wild boar is to be seen on Normantympana, notably at S. Nicholas, Ipswich,and Ashford, in Derbyshire. In the latterexample the boar is attacking a convention-alised tree from one side, while a lion is onthe other side. It is just possible that we havehere an allusion to Psalm lxxx. 13, where itis said of the vine brought out of Egypt, that the wild boar out of the wood doth root itup ; and the wild beasts of the field devourit. If this interpretation be correct, then themeaning of the sculpture would be, that thepower of evil is trying to uproot and destroythe power of Christ. The boar is found on a most curious earlysculpture at Clifton Hampden Church, Oxon,which Mr. C. E. Keyser says represents ahunting scene with hunter and hounds. Itlooks as tho

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