Monumental Figures

No. 2.

Figures with their hands on their breasts, and chalices, represent priests.

Figures with crozier, mitre, and pontificals, represent prelates.

Figures with armour represent knights.

Figures with legs crossed represent either crusaders or married men.

Female figures with a mantle and large ring represent nuns.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.