Ivy-mantled

Stronger it grew and sadder, and deepened into the tone of a death bell, knolling dolefully from some ivy-mantled tower, and bearing tidings of mortality and woe to the cottage, to the hall, and to the solitary wayfarer that all might weep for the doom appointed in turn to them.

Both ivy-mantled carvings are fringed with engravings of mourners from classical Greek tragedy, reading from St Matthew's Gospel.