Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood: Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other MatterWalter, J. Conway (James Conway)
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Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood: Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
Walter, J. Conway (James Conway)
Woodhall Spa (England)
English capital, with piscina behind. The windows in the north aisle are
decorated with reticulated tracery. Those of the south aisle are
Perpendicular, with segmented heads. The windows throughout the church,
and extending even to the rectory house, were, at a former period,
unusually rich in stained glass,
With varied hues all richly dight,
In radiance and collateral light,
Of knight’s and baron’s heraldic scroll,
And prayers invoked for manie a soule.
The marvel is, what has become of it, since there is no record of any act
of spoliation such as is known to have been committed in the neighbouring
church of Tattershall. We give here extracts from Gervase Holles’ “Notes
on Churches,” descriptive of these windows, etc., from the Harleyan MSS.,
No. 6,829, as they are given in Weir’s “History,” pp. 50–52, ed. 1820.
_In fenestra Orientali Cancelli_
Quarterly Marmyon
Verry a fesse G. fretty d’or
Sa. 2 lyons passant arg. crowned d’or
Empaled Dymoke
G. a frett of 8 pieces d’or
B.3 garbes d’or
G. a lyon rampant d’or
Sa. a sword in pale arg
Sa. 3 lyons passant arg crowned d’or Dymoke
Arg, 3 flowres de lize between 6 crosse crosslets, Hillary
fitchy sa. a border G.
Arg. a playne crosse G.
G. a playne cross arg
_Tumulus lapideus_.
‘Hic jacet Anna fillla Thome Dymoke Militis D’ni . . .
et Margaretis consortis suæ que obijt A° Dni 1642 &c.
Empaled } Verry a fesse G. fretty d’or Marmyon
Empaled } Or a lyon rampant double queue sa Welles
_In mure boreali aere sculptum_.
Orate pro a’i’a M’ri Joh’is de Croxby quondam Rectoris istius ecclesiæ.
qui dedit annualem redditum xxs annuatim in p’petuum, et in secunda,
Feriæ primæ hebdommadæ quadragesimæ habitantibus in Conningsby sc’am
formam evidentiæ suæ distribuendorum.
“This charity hath ceased for many years, the evidence having been
sacrilegiously stolen out of that monument within the wall, as by the
loosening of the plate of brasse may appeare.
_In fenestra Occidentali Capellæ Orientalis_
Orate pro a’iabus . . Hatcliffe . . . Ux’is suæ Fenestram
Sa. 3 welles arg. bis Wellis
Empaled } Sa. 3 welles arg Wellis
Emplaed } B. 2 bars d’or over all a lyon rampant . . Hatcliffe
. G.
Sa. a sword in pale arg
Arg. a fesse daunce betw. 3 talbots’ heads erased
sa.
Arg. a fesse betw. 3 cootes sa
B. 2 bars d’or over all a lyon rampant G Hatcliffe
“Orate pro bono statu H. Wellis notorii publici Hatcliffe
Uxoris suæ et sequelis eorum, . . . hanc fenestram
fieri fecerunt A’no D’ni 1460.
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