The Anathemata
Keel, Ram, Stauros (continued)
Down
far under him
the central arbor
the quivering elm on which our salvation sways.
Baum, baulk
ridging the straked, dark
inverted vaults of her.
David Jones notes
additional notes
see also
In Rite and Fore-time we met the image of the church as ship (page 53). Stow has a long passage (pp. 124-125) in which he describes a nave-like hall as being built by shipwrights not house-carpenters (see Hague pp. 197-80).
comments
We look down the ship and see the ship as a church.