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)
A short extension of our travels eastwards, through pretty scenery, with
bold rising ground—Somersby Top, Warden Hill, &c.—capped by woods, brings
us to Harrington, where we find an interesting old mansion belonging to
Sir H. D. Ingilby, built in the reign of James II. with old-time garden,
having parterres and terraces and extensive lawns, but, unfortunately,
not at present occupied, and much decayed. There is a very interesting
church, almost entirely rebuilt by the late Rector, Rev. R. W. Cracroft,
in 1855, but retaining a series of fine monuments of his own connections,
the Knightly family of the Coppledykes; the earliest of these, Sir John
de Harrington, temp. Edward I., was a Crusader. His effigy lies on an
altar tomb, beneath an arch in the south wall, at the east end of the
nave. He is in complete armour, cross-legged, his hands joined in
prayer. The next is a slab in the chancel floor, once having brass
effigies, but which, with the inscription, have been removed. It
commemorated John Coppledyke and his wife Margaret Tilney, and bore date
1480. Her effigy is now affixed to the wall of the chancel. The third
is that of John Coppledyke, who died in 1552. Then there is the recessed
altar-tomb of his son, also John, who died in 1585. It is in the Tudor
style, altar and canopy all of Purbeck marble. Opposite is the monument
of his brother Francis and his wife, the former dying in 1590. Then come
tombs of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. This typical series closes
with the tomb of Thomas, the nephew of Francis, described in the epitaph
as “the last and best of his race.” The tower and font are the originals
preserved; the latter bears on one of its faces the arms of Tilney
impaling Coppledyke, shewing that it was the joint gift of John and
Margaret, towards the end of the fifteenth century.
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