THE

Calendar

OF THE

ANGLICAN CHURCH

ILLUSTRATED.

WITH BRIEF ACCOUNTS OF THE SAINTS WHO HAVE CHURCHES
DEDICATED IN THEIR NAMES, OR WHOSE IMAGES ARE MOST
FREQUENTLY MET WITH, IN ENGLAND: THE EARLY CHRISTIAN
AND MEDIEVAL SYMBOLS; AND AN INDEX OF EMBLEMS.

OXFORD AND LONDON,

JOHN HENRY PARKER.

M DCCC LI.

OXFORD:

PRINTED BY I. SHRIMPTON.

BEQUEST OF A. L. CROSS 3-12-41

PREFACE.

A PORTION of this work was published in the

year 1842 as an Appendix to the second edition of a work on "Anglican Church Architecture, by James Barr, Architect." It was omitted from the third edition, published in 1845, with the intention of forming it into a separate work; that intention has never been abandoned, although the execution of it has been delayed by accidental causes. During this interval several other works have appeared, bearing more or less on the same subject, but none of them occupying the same ground, or following the same plan, so that the utility of the present work is not affected by them. It is perhaps hardly necessary to observe that this work is of an archæological, not of a theological character; the Editor has not considered it his business to examine into the truth or falsehood of the legends of which he narrates the substance; he gives them merely as legends, and in general so much of them only as is necessary to explain why particular emblems were used with a particular saint, or why Churches in a given locality are named after this or that saint. This portion of the

work, which is entirely new, has been attended with considerable labour, a complete list of all the Churches in England having been made out with the saints after whom they are named, so far as these could be ascertained from 'Bacon's Liber Regis,' the 'Liber Ecclesiasticus,' and other sources; an index to the saints was then made according to this list, and this index forms the groundwork of that portion of the work.

An Index of Emblems has been added to enable the reader more readily to ascertain what saint is intended by a particular emblem, and why it is employed.

The authorities chiefly made use of and referred to, will be found enumerated at the end of the work. The Editor has also to express his obligation to Mr. Albert Way, for some valuable suggestions at the commencement of the undertaking, and to his sister, now Mrs. Kennaway, for a translation from the German of the work entitled, Die attribute der Heiligen." Also to Mr. Charles Winston for a list of examples on painted glass; to Mr. Charles Buckler for several drawings from roodscreens, painted glass, and illuminated manuscripts; and to Mr. O. Jewitt for the care and taste with which he has engraved these, as well as his own drawings from similar sources.