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Painting, watercolour, An Old Painted Ceiling in the
Deanery, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Robert Carlyle snr, 1793.
Included in an album The Antiquities of the Cathedral Church
of St Mary. Detailed drawing of the ceiling in the Deanery,
Carlisle Cathedral. Two main beams run north and south and
two secondary beams run east to west dividing the ceiling
into nine main compartments. At the intersection of the main
and secondary beams there are four red shields with
instruments of the passion. At the ends of the main beam
there are a pelican in her piety, a mermaid, a jester and a
human figure emerging from a tower. On the ceiling are a
number of heraldic symbols and badges. There are parrots or
popinjays for the Senhouse family. A ring necked parakeet.
There are also scallop shells for the Dacre family, ragged
staffs for Greystokes, choughs for Scropes, crescent and
shackle bolts for Percys, eagles legs for Stanley. The roses
might be heraldic or simply decorative. The pelican in her
piety could be for Lumley and the mermaid for Berkley.
Made for Storer's Graphic and Historical Descriptions of the
Cathedrals of Great Britain.
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