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Fig. 117 is a Masonic, Mosaic, or Tesselated Pavement. (Query, whether this pavement of black and white squares
Fig. 92. Almondsbury Church, Gloucestershire, circa 1150. Fig. 93. (Decorated Period.) Salisbury Cathedral, Central Spire, 1350. Fig. 94. St. Mary's Church, Cheltenham, circa 1250.
is not the origin of the ancient Chess-Table, or ChessBoard ?) The game of Chess, with the board upon which it is played, is probably “Masonic” in its invention.
Fig. 95. Bayetix Cathedral, Normandy, circa 1220. Fig. 96. St. Paul’s Cathedral.
In old representations of the cathedral church of Notre Dame at Paris, the symbols of the masculine divinity—such as the sun and some others—are placed over the right hand