IN STANTON HARCOUUT CnURCII, OXON.

367 hand. On the tabic arc two disli{>s, witli a Hsli on each, and tigurcs in the shape of beehives, Avhich arc probably intended for loaves and broken loaves of bread. ^^^Um^eMrrm^3~ . The Descent from the Cr and EntOTXibineiit. Thf D.-scf-nt int,< H.- On the north wall wiis T/ie Descent from the Cross. A soldier is on a ladder removing onr Lord, and on the other side are the feet as it were of another person in a similar position. The costume resembles the dress of the end of the fourteenth or beginning of the fifteenth century. From the left hand of our Lord (the only one remaining) great gouts of blood arc ditfused over the arm. There is no wound in the left breast ; a nail passes through each foot, the feet not being crossed. Beneath the Descent from the Cross is The Entombment. A coffin-shaped sepulchre receives our Lord's body, of which the hands are crossed. As in the other painting the wound is rcpreseiited in the rif/ht breast, which seems to have been the early and most general mode of expressing it. Of the three figures engaged in entombing the body, the two next the feet are males, one of whom has a vessel in his hand with a serrated or rather embattled edge ; the third figure is a female saint, probably one of the Maries, but there arc no distinctive em- blems.