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THE CROSS.




[Illustration: SOMERSBY CROSS.

_From a photo by Carlton & Son, Horncastle._]




  The Cross
  IN
  Ritual, Architecture, and Art


  BY THE
  REV. GEO. S. TYACK, B.A.


  LONDON:
  WILLIAM ANDREWS & CO., 5, FARRINGDON AVENUE.




  WILLIAM ANDREWS & CO
  THE HULL PRESS




Preface.


In this work my aim has been to deal in a popular way with the manifold
uses of the Cross as the symbol of the Christian Faith. The attempt
necessitates certain limitations; to give prominence to controversial
points, to go to foreign lands for illustrations and examples when so many
apt ones are to be found at home, or to load the pages with
references--any of these things would have been opposed to the object
which I have set before myself. If my outline be sufficiently broad and
clear, and the details, so far as they go, accurate--and to attain this no
pains have been spared--I shall be content.

Before closing this brief preface, it is to me both a pleasure and a duty
to express my grateful thanks to my friend and publisher, Mr. William
Andrews, for the use of his collection of works, notes, and pictures
relating to the Cross, and from his own productions I have gleaned some
out-of-the-way information.

GEO. S. TYACK,

  CROWLE, DONCASTER,
  _August, 1896_.




Contents.


