MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES 



1440, the date ot a very similar effigy of Sir 

 Robert Grashill in Haversham Church, Notts. 

 It is perhaps John, the i6th Baron Grey- 

 stoke, who married Elizabeth, daughter and 

 heiress of Robert, Baron Ferrers of Wemme. 

 By his will dated 10 July, 1436, he ordered 

 his body to be buried in the collegiate church 

 of Greystoke and bequeathed to that church 

 his best horse as a mortuary, and all his habi- 

 liments of war, consisting of coat armour, 

 pennon, gyron, etc.' 



II. The smaller figure, Mrs. Hudleston 

 suggests, is that of the founder of the 

 college, or collegiate church of Greystoke, 

 William le Bon Baron, who died 1359. He 

 lies below a canopy which bears many 

 shields, formerly charged with painted armorial 

 devices, now too defaced to be made out. 

 Portions of angels are discernible. He wears 

 a plain, acutely pointed steel bascinet to which 

 the camail or tippet of mail is laced. The 

 hands, in gauntlets, are in attitude of prayer. 

 The surcoat with fringe border covers the 

 body. The arms and legs are protected with 

 the usual plate armour. The feet rest on a 

 lion with a long tail reaching almost to the 

 surcoat. A dagger hangs from the baw- 

 dric. The head, supported by two draped 

 angels, rests on a cushion. On each side of 

 the ankles is a shield without device. 1 



HOLME CULTRAM ABBEY 

 CHURCH 



The figure of an abbot is on the front of 

 a dismembered altar tomb, now in the porch. 

 The abbot is seated on a throne. His head 

 is mitred : he wears a chasuble with rationale 

 on his breast. The alb with apparel is seen 

 distinctly under the chasuble. The feet pro- 

 ject from below the robes. He holds his 

 staff over his left shoulder. Three monks 

 pray on each side of him. There are two 

 other portions of the same tomb in the porch. 

 The whole is clearly the monument of 

 Robert Chambers, for at one end is a shield 

 with the chained bear and R.C. so familiar to 

 every local antiquary and so common in the 

 Abbey holme. He was Abbot from 1507-1518. 



KIRKOSWALD 



I. The effigy of a lady in red sandstone. 

 The mutilated head, from which flows a veil, 

 showing a curl on either side, rests on a 



1 Mr. Mill Stephenson says : 'This is interest- 

 ing as an early example of the bascinet and camail. 

 The high pointed bascinet is significant. There 

 is an effigy of Sir John de Herteshull at Ashton, 

 Northamptonshire, who died 1365 (circa"), very 

 like it.' 



cushion. Her dress, without girdle, is plain 

 and reaches to the feet, which are large for 

 the size of the figure. On each of the 

 shoulders is a small decorated band something 

 like an epaulette, not visible in the sketch. 

 The simplicity of the gown, and the tresses 

 of hair on each side of the face, lead to the 

 belief that the effigy is of the fourteenth 

 century. It lies on the north side of the 

 sanctuary. 



II. An alabaster monument put up to the 

 memory of Margaret Bertram, who died in 

 the year 1609, by Thomas Bertram, her 

 husband. The picture speaks for itself. 

 Thomas Bertram and Margaret his wife are 

 kneeling on opposite sides of a prayer desk, 

 the two sons kneel behind the father and a 

 daughter is seen behind the mother. The 

 tablet containing the inscription has suspended 

 at one end of it a censer and at the other a 

 book. The hour-glass and skull remind the 

 reader of death. The dresses are those of 

 the late sixteenth or seventeenth century. 

 Bishop Nicolson gives the inscription, which 

 he calls tedious and blundering. Margaret 

 Bertram was one of the sisters and co-heirs 

 of Thomas Brougham of Brougham, and wife 

 of Thomas Bertram. 



KIRKLAND 



An effigy of white chalk stone, of the 

 middle of the fourteenth century. The 

 figure is clad in a surcoat of remarkable 

 length, and has a large sword hanging in 

 front. There is no trace of mail armour 

 now, although the head seems as if it had a 

 close-fitting helmet, from the sides of which 

 tufts of hair project. The hands hold a 

 heart. This is said to be the effigy of a 

 Fleming. It now rests on the floor on the 

 north side of the chancel. 



LANERCOST 



I. Two fragments of an armed figure in red 

 sandstone of the latter part of the fourteenth 

 century. The body is clothed in hauberk of 

 chain mail with surcoat embroidered with the 

 armorial bearings of Vaux of Triermain. 

 The thigh has a cuissard of plate. The 

 bawdric is very richly ornamented. The 

 other fragment gives the left foot in a sol- 

 leret of plate, resting on a recumbent lion, 

 from whose mouth depends a scroll. 



II. A recumbent effigy of a layman 6 feet 

 3 inches long by i foot 7 inches. The figure 

 is clothed in a tunic without belt, reaching a 

 little below the knee. The legs appear to be 

 covered with tight-fitting hose. The feet 

 without shoes rest on a dog. The hands are 



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