The Grotesque in Church Art

THE GROTESQUE IN CHURCH ART. Only 400 copies of this Book published for Sale, and this is No. 315 [Illustration: THE STORY OF JONAH, RIPON.] The Grotesque in Church Art By T. Tindall Wildridge [Illustration] LONDON: WILLIAM ANDREWS & CO., 5, FARRINGDON AVENUE, E.C. 1899. Preface. The designs of which this book treats have vast fields outside the English church works to which it has been thought good to limit it. Books and buildings undoubtedly mutually interchanged some forms of their ornaments, yet the temple was the earlier repository of man's ideas expressed in art, and the proper home of the religious symbolism which forms so large a proportion of my subject. In view also of the ground I…

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