Memorials of Shrewsbury: being a concise description of the town and its environs, adapted as a general guide for the information of visitors and residents — John Shaqi
Memorials of Shrewsbury: being a concise description of the town and its environs, adapted as a general guide for the information of visitors and residentsPidgeon, Henry
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Memorials of Shrewsbury: being a concise description of the town and its environs, adapted as a general guide for the information of visitors and residents
Pidgeon, Henry
Shrewsbury (England) -- Guidebooks
Above these arms is the figure of the Virgin Mary, and below is St.
Andrew. The dexter lancet window is occupied with the figures of St.
Philip, St. Bartholomew, and St. James the son of Zebedee, and the
sinister with St. Simon, St. Thomas, and St. Matthias. At the bottom is
the following inscription:—“IOANNES BRICKDALE BLAKEWAY, A.M. HUJUS
ECCLESIÆ JUDEX OFFICIALIS ET MINISTER INSIGNIA REGIA P. C. ANNO MDCCCXX.
RELIQUAM FENESTRÆ PARTEM EXORNAVIT EJUS VIDUA M.E.B. ANNO MDCCCXXIX.”
The lower portion of the walls are ornamented with interstitial divisions
and monuments.
Against the west wall is a most beautiful free-stone
MONUMENT
TO THE LATE REV. J. B. BLAKEWAY;
[Picture: Monument to Rev. J. B. Blakeway, and North Transept]
which for elegance of design, beauty of execution, and general effect,
has perhaps rarely been surpassed in modern times.
This beautiful Memorial was designed by Mr. John Carline, of this town,
and is upwards of 12 feet in length and 16 feet in height, and is divided
into three compartments by clustered buttresses, which sustain richly
crocketed pinnacles. The centre compartment comprises a large pointed
arch, cusped, canopied, and crocketed, the back of which is deeply
recessed, and contains the following inscription in ornamental Roman
capitals:
To the Memory of the Reverend
JOHN BRICKDALE BLAKEWAY, M.A. F.A.S.
Thirty-one years Ordinary and Official
And Thirty-two years Minister of this Parish,
This Monument is erected
By the Voluntary Subscription of his Parishioners,
As a tribute of respect for his talents,
Esteem for his virtues,
And gratitude for his long and faithful services
As their Friend and Pastor.
He died the tenth day of March, MDCCCXXVI.
Aged sixty years.
On each side of the above compartment is an elegant niche with a
cinquefoil head, octagonal back, and groined ceiling. These niches are
surmounted by acute-angled crocketed canopies formed of deep mouldings;
and resting on the head of each niche within the canopy is a cinquefoil
within a circle. In a similar situation in the centre compartment is a
shield containing the following arms:—Argent, on a bend engrailed sable,
three bezants; impaling argent, a fess vaire between three unicorns
passant, gules.
The above divisions rest on an altar tomb, the front of which is divided
into twelve small niches with trefoil heads. These niches are separated
by small buttresses, with crocketed canopies and pinnacles.
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