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STOKE ROCHKORD, 



GRANTHAM. . . 



rURNOR. 



MR. 



N the seauh for tv.iutilul 

 houses tlu- home- of 

 _ gentle- 



men, and rot less" the fruits cJ the jjenius and ta; 



.lav > .inJ ..( -lately, radiant, and - nted gardens, 



the county of Lin.oln is found t.> he richer th.in some mi^ht 

 ^uprse. They lie broadcast through the shire, and now 



;ected to grace these pages, which pictu: 

 many pLur> fiir to behold. It is .1 very noble example <>t 

 domestic architect ire and garden adornment The village -f 

 Stoke Rochford lies in a favoured situation in the vail. 

 the Witham, near to the Leicester and Rutland borders, and 

 in the vicinity of the Great North Road, a rustic pla.e "t 

 rural charm, with the beautiful park of Stoke Rochford Hall 

 <-n one side and the not less attractive domain of H.iMon 

 Hall, Sir Hugh Clvlmeley's place, on the other. The latter 

 '.so illustrated and described in these \ ages. 



The village has its distinctive appellation from an ancient 

 family which came from Essex. th~ Roch'ords. of whom the 

 earliest pisx.-ssor seems to have become si ne of the 



manors early in the fifteenth century, and who conferred the ; r 

 patronymic npm it. Thw were two churches at the i 



Combined, and within tlie 

 interesting edifice, which h.i- .1 

 .N oi man arcade with m.i>> 

 Piers and sculpture, I capital-. i menvrraN f t'ut 



family remain. I'nder the eastern arches, on h-.'h -i !r-. are 

 Perpendicular tombs 1 1 ceitain ot its im-mbeis. tle one on the 

 south beinn under a canopy. The bia-s of Henry Rochfurd 

 IN a very no >d es.imple <>'. inonuinent.il art. 



'I here K aNo in the church a lar^e monument t' v 

 Edmund Turnor, who died in 1707. and who t - tamilv Invi- 

 lon^ been resident at this i harming place. Clir.top!ii-r 

 Turnor, of Milton Erneys in Bedfordshire. I. ad f-ir his elde-t 

 son Sir Christopher Turnor, a well-known loyalist jud^e and 

 one of the Barons of the hxcheqtier in the Civil War. and 

 Sir h'dmund Tuiivir, knighted in i<*>*, th ; ^:ok< 



Rochford, was the latter's broth r. 



The ancient house in which the R .cht>rds had dwelt has 

 lon^; since perished, and Bi-hop Sanderson (1661) said that 

 part of the ate-house there >f had been lati-:\ -tandin^, while 

 near by, taken out "t the ruir.s ,.t tho other part, mi^ht N- 

 seen a utcheon with the Roch:>':.ls' am - and 



At a little distance to the westward, from the M.le ..f 



THE lERPACt GAfl AN ALIUMN .MORNING. 



