BIEMORIALS OF THE RECTORY OF LIMINGTON. 5> 



of D.D. He settled the advowson, on his marriage with 

 Frances, daughter and co-heiress of Edward Lake, D.D., 

 on his eklest son ; wko, (having the vicarage of Wotton- 

 under-Edge, Gloucestershire,) sold it to John "Walker, 

 Esq., from whoni it passed to John Shirley, Esq., and 

 from him to the Rev. E. C. Forward, vvho sold it to the 

 warden and fellows of Wadhara College, Oxford. 



(Plaie \.) Limington Church is the ancient parish 

 church of the village, dedicated to St. Mary. It consists 

 of a nave, chancel, and north aisle or chapel ; with a piain 

 tower at the west end, containing four bells. It was pro- 

 bably built by one of the lords Beauchamp, in the 1 2 th 

 Century. 



Sir Richard Gyverney, in 1329, gave a messuage, five 

 acres and one rood of arable land, one acre of meadow, 

 and seventy-twß. Shillings rent, with appurtenances in 

 Limington, to God and the church of Limington, and 

 to John Fychet, chaplain, and to all other chaplains his 

 successors, to perform divine Service every day at the 

 altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the parish church 

 of Limington, for the souls of him, the said Sir Richard, 

 and Maud his wife, and for the souls of Gilbert Gyverney 

 and Mabel Gyverney, father and mother of the said Sir 

 Richard, and others of his family. Soon after founding 

 this chantry Sir Richard died and was buried in a chapel 

 on the north side of the church. 



(Plate 2.) In a niche under the north window of this 

 chapel (fig. I.) there now lies the figure of a knight, cross- 

 legged, having on his shield a bend, between six escallops ; 

 this is probably the effigy of Sir Richard. At his feet 

 lies the figure of a woman, having a chin-cloth, (fig. 2). 

 Underneath the arch which divides the chapel from the 

 nave, on a large tomb, lie the effigies of anothcr of the 



