XVIII. A Mosaic Pavement in the Prior's Chapel at Ely; with a brief Deduction of the Rise and Progress of Mosaic Work since the Introduction of Christianity. By Richard Gough, Director

Richard Gough

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XVIII. A Mosaic Pavement in the Prior's Chapel at Ely; with a brief Deduction of the Rise and Progress of Mosaic Work since the Introduction of Christianity. By Richard Gough, Director

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The drawing submitted to the examination of the Society, and engraved Plate XVI. represents a mosaic pavement before the altar of the chapel in the prior's lodgings at ELY, built of stone by John Crawden, or Crouden, prior from 1321 to 1341, now a dwelling house, making part of the Deanery, and lately in the occupation of the Reverend Mr. Lewis Jones, son of the late prebendary of that name. The pavement is 4 feet 10 inches long, and 3 feet 1 inch wide and represents the fall of man; Adam and Eve at the forbidden tree, whose fruit the serpent with a human face, which some persons believed he assumed, seems to be recommending to the latter.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 10 , 1789 , pp. 151 - 155

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900020531 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1789

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^{page 151 note [a]} Bentham's Ely, p. 220.

^{page 151 note [b]} Lyranus in Calmet's Dictionary, art. Adam.

^{page 151 note [c]} Hist. Nat. XXXVI. 25.

^{page 152 note [d]} I have seen a very beautiful copy of this in modern Mosaic at the earl of Bute's at Luton.

^{page 152 note [e]} Ciampini Vetera Ædificia, Part II. p. 1—5. Rom. 1699.

^{page 152 note [f]} Ib. c. 7.

^{page 152 note [g]} See also Furietti de Musivis, c. v. p. 65—68.

^{page 152 note [h]} Ib. p. 87.

^{page 153 note [i]} Ib. p. 88. Muratori, Antiq. med. ævi. tom. II. diff. 24. p. 364.

^{page 153 note [k]} C. 24. p. 150, &c. 58. p. 182. in parerg. de sac. ædific. Furietti, p. 92.

^{page 153 note [l]} Anonymus de Laudibus Papiæ, c 2. ap. Muratori Rer. Italic. II. p. 19. Furietti, p. 96.

^{page 154 note [m]} Sepulchral Monuments, l. p. 4, 5. Henry III. died 1272.

^{page 154 note [n]} Bentham, ubi sup. p. 156.

^{page 154 note [o]} Ib. p. 283.

^{page 154 note [p]} Ib. 220.

^{page 155 note [q]} Bentham, p. 159.

^{page 155 note [r]} Ib. 220, 221.

^{page 155 note [s]} Gostling's Walk, 2d Ed. p. 261.

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XVIII. A Mosaic Pavement in the Prior's Chapel at Ely; with a brief Deduction of the Rise and Progress of Mosaic Work since the Introduction of Christianity. By Richard Gough, Director

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