Bk. VI. Ch. III. CANOPIED TOMBS. 193 over-ingenuity in making the three arches of the canopy sustain tliem- selves without intermediate supports, this is excusable from its position between two massive piers. It is doing in stone what had been done in wood over Edward III.'s tomb at Westminster, and ig one of many instances which miglit be quoted of the interchauge- 626. Tomb of Edward III. in Westminster Abbey. ableness of wooden and stone forms during the whole of the Middle Ages in this country, and a proof of the influence the one always had on the other. Among the most beautiful monuments of a quasi-sepulchral char- acter existing in this country are the crosses erected by Edward I. on the spots at which the body of his Queen Eleanor rested on its way from Nottinghamshire to London. Originally, it is said, there were VOL. II. — 18
