REPORT. XXV 
In the north transept are memorials of the Cantrell family, long, and still 
of King’s Newton. 
In the chancel are hatchments, recording the deaths of William, 2nd 
Viscount Melbourne, (1848), First Lord of the Treasury; Frederick Lord 
Beauvale, 3rd and last Viscount Melbourne (1853) ; and of their brother, the 
Honourable George Lamb (1834); and their sister Emily (1869), wife of 
the 5th Earl Cowper, and afterwards of the 3rd and last Viscount Palmerston, 
First Lord of the Treasury. _ 
The fine Norman doorway in the west front, and those in the north and 
south aisles deserve notice ; also the ancient font under the south-west tower ; 
the carvings on the capitals of some of the piers ; and the portion of a text 
painted in fresco on the south wall of the chancel. 
A ‘‘restoration” of the church took place in 1860, at a cost of about 
£3000, under the direction of the late Sir Gilbert Scott. At that time the 
pyramids on the two western towers were erected ; porches were removed from 
the north and south doorways ; and the ‘‘vicar’s door” in the south wall of 
the chancel was closed. 
The bell frames having become decayed, it has recently become necessary 
to take down three of the bells, and they now stand under the north-west 
tower. An endeavour is being made to supply their places with a finer peal. 
In front of the western end of the Church are remains of very ancient 
buildings, probably part of the early possessions of the Bishop-Rectors of 
Melbourne. 
RECTORY AND VICARAGE. 
The Domesday Survey makes mention of a Priest, a Church and a Mill, in 
the King’s Manor of Milburne. 
A.D. 1133, Henry I. founded the Bishopric of Carlisle: one of its early 
endowments was the Parsonage of Melbourne. 
A.D. 1204, Pope Innocent ITI. nominated Benedict de Ramesey (Arch- 
bishop of Ragusa) to the Bishopric of Carlisle, and sent a special mandate for 
his admission to the Parsonage of Melbourne, to which King John gave effect. 
—Rot. Chart. 4 John. 
A Bishop of Carlisle (it is thought, Walter de Mauclerc, 1223—1246) 
erected a mansion here, near to the Church, and imparked a part of the 
adjoining lands ; and here the Bishops resided occasionally for some centuries, 
and sometimes held ordinations of priests for the diocese of Carlisle, during 
the inroads of the Scots in the neighbourhood of their palace in Cumberland. 
John de Halaughton, Bishop of Carlisle (1292— 1324) claimed the 
Parsonage of Melbourne, with Manorial rights: the Royal Commissioners 
admitted the former claim, but not all the latter. 
The Valor Ecclesiasticus (27 Henry VIII.) estimated the Rectory of 
