A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



a knight in armour kneeling and holding a church. 

 The figure appears to belong to the early part of the 

 14th century, and may represent one of the Veres 

 from whom the manor passed to the elder Sir Henry 

 Green. His shield displays the arms of Drayton 

 and his sword has IHS upon the pommel.^^ In the 

 traceries are numerous small figures of saints, amongst 

 whom are St. John Baptist, St. Andrew and St. 

 Michael, and two female figures, perhaps the Blessed 

 Virgin and St. Margaret. The order in which the 

 figures are placed is arbitrary and unnatural, and the 

 borders and other accessories have been destroyed, 

 but the glass is nevertheless of very great interest and 

 value. 



The tracery of the lower halves of the windows in 

 the chancel and north chapel was originally filled with 

 a series of shields representing the alliances of the 

 Greens,*' but the royal shields of the east window 

 are gone, and new shields have been inserted in this 

 window and in one of the north windows of the 

 chapel. In the remaining north window of the chapel 

 and the two south windows of the chapel the old 

 shields remain." 



In the middle of the chancel floor is the gravestone 

 of John Heton, rector of l.owick 1406-15, who died 

 in the same year as Ralph Green. Tlie slab is plain 

 except for a border inscription which reads 'Hie 

 jacet Dominus Johannes de Heton quondam rector 

 ccclesiedebenyfeldeet nuper de Lufwyck cujus aninic 

 propicietur Deus Amen. Credo quod Rcdemptor 

 mcus vivit et in novissimo die de terra surrectus 

 sum et in came mea videbo deum salvatorem.' 



It remains to notice the series of monuments to 

 the lords of Drayton. The magnificent alabaster 

 table-tomb of Ralph Green (d. 1417), son of the 

 rebuilder of the church, and his wife Katharine 

 Mallory, stands under the arch between the chancel 

 and north chapel, and is one of the finest works of the 

 Chellaston school of carvers. The monument, as 

 agreed upon by indenture,'* was completed by 1420. 

 The sides of the tomb are panelled and contain 

 ' images of angels with tabernacles bearing shields ' 

 and standing on small pedestals. The tabernacle- 

 work is now much mutilated and the shields blank. 

 The inscription is gone. The effigies have already 

 been described." 



On the north side of the south chapel is a marble 

 table-tomb with brasses of Henry Green, who died 

 22 February (' in fcsto Sancti Petri in Cathedra ') 

 1467-8, and his wife Margaret. He wears an elaborate 

 suit of armour, witli spurs, andhis wife has a head-dress 

 with horns. The shield of arms bears a chequered 

 coat quartering an engrailed cross : small brass 

 scrolls repeat the motto ' Da gloriam Deo.' 



The monument of Edward Stafford, second earl 

 of Wiltshire, who died 24 March 1498-9, is in the 

 middle of the south chapel. It consists of a high 

 tomb of alabaster with elaborate efiigy,^" and round 

 the edge is an inscription formed by letters knotted 

 in allusion to the badge of the house of Stafford.^' 



Tlicre are two memorials of the family of Mordaunt. 

 One of these is a tablet of Raunds stone in the eastern 

 sedilc of the north ch.ipel (which was mutilated to re- 

 ceive it), with a much abbreviated and ungrammatical 

 Latin inscription commemorating William, second 

 son of John, first earl of Peterborough, wlio died at 

 the age of eight in 1625. The other monument is 

 that of Mary, daughter of the second earl of Peter- 

 borough, who married first the seventh duke of 

 Norfolk and secondly Sir John Germain. The 

 duchess of Norfolk, who died 17 November 1705, is 

 buried against the east wall of the north chapel, and 

 her monument bears a recumbent statue,^^ and the 

 shield of Mordaunt as an escutcheon of pretence on 

 the shield of Germain. Sir John Germain married as 

 his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Charles, earl 

 of Berkeley. He died 11 December 1 718, and his 

 monument, with a recumbent statue,^* is against the 

 north wall of the chapel. There is a small brass to 

 his widow (d. 1769) in the western sedile of the cliapel. 



Against the east wall of the south chapel is a monu- 

 ment commemorating Charles Sackville, fifth duke of 

 Dorset (d. 1843), and his brother the Hon. George 

 Sackville Germain (d. 1836), wlio are there buried. 



There are six bells, the treble by J. Tajlor and Co. 

 of Loughborough, 1896, the second and third undated 

 by Hugh Watts II of Leicester (1615-43), ^1'*= fourth 

 recast by Taylor in 1884, the fifth inscribed ' Richarde 

 Woode made me,' and tlie tenor by Hugh Watts, 

 1619." 



The plate consists of a cup, paten, flagon, and 

 almsdish of 1723-4, each inscribed ' Loffwick Church 

 1724,' the cup in addition having the arms of Lady 

 Elizabeth Germain : tliere are also a plated cup and 

 breadholder.2* 



The registers before 1812 are as follows: (i) bap- 

 tisms 1542-1794, marriages 1557-1649 and 1665- 

 1744, burials 1557-1692; (ii) marriages 1746-1753, 

 burials 1694-1812 ; (iii) baptisms 1795-1812 ; (iv) 

 marriages 1754-1811. 



The advowson of St. Peter's, 

 ADVOWSON Lowick, was held with the manor, 

 but has been occasionally settled or 

 leased separately. In 1303-4 Robert de Nowers 

 granted it with a wood in Lowick by fine to 

 Amery or Almaric de Nowers,"' who recovered 

 it in the same year against Thomas Curzoun 

 and Margery liis wife."' John de Nowers, the 



" The knight is figured in .Issoe. Arch. 

 Sac. Kcpori$, xvii, ■;(,. The fi(;urc h.i3 

 been ascribed to Sir W.iltcr dc V'lrc, who 

 aiiumcd the armi <>( Drayton, but the 

 Rev. (',. A. Poole al I ributcd it to the second 

 Sir Henry Green, the restorer of the 

 church ; see ' Stained Glass in Lowick 

 Church' (1861) in ibid, vi, 53-64. 



" They are figured and described in 

 Halslead's Snccmri Ceiicnlofirt (ilS;). 



" The existing shields are described in 

 ^itoc. Arch. Sic. Re/ii. ivii, 71-73. 



'•The indenture is dated 14 February, 

 141S-19; the cost was to be 'forty 

 pounds slcriing.' 



" f'.C.H. Noribiinn. i, 401). 



"The cfTigy is described in I'.V.H. 

 XorthiiHts, i, 413. 



" On part of the edge a schoolmaslir 

 of l.owick has scr.TtcIicd his inilials and 

 the lf>;cnd ' quondam lutlim.i.qistrr luiius 

 opidi.' 'f'here were two chantries in the 

 church, that to Edward Stafford, I'.arl of 

 Wiltshire, was probably in the south 

 chapel. (I, inc. F.pis. Reg. Inst. Smith, 218; 

 Memo Smith, i6fi). In I4')7 Henry Green 

 by his will founded a chantry of two 

 priests to pray for the soul of Sir Henry 

 (ireen, the (Ihief Justice, and his ancestors 

 (Halstead, .S'urciffc/ Gfncalortci^ '99-) 



'= Described in I'.C.II. Nortlxinii. i, 

 412. 



"Ibid. 



" North, Ch. Hells of Northants. 329. 

 The ttfth bell has the stamp and cross of 

 the early Leicester founders as used by 

 Robert Newconibc. Richard Wood may 

 have been a foreman in the Newconif>c 

 foundry. The treble was an ad<fition to 

 a former ring of five. The clock and 

 chimes date from 1891. 



" Markham Ch. Plate of Norlhanli. 180. 



" Feet of F. Northants. 32 Edw. I, 

 case 175, file 60, no. 4117, 



■' DeBanco. R. Mich.32Edw. I,m. 158. 



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