MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES 



GREAT SALKELD 



I. ANTHONY HUTTON and ELIZABETH 

 BURDETT his wife. The effigies and the 

 slab on which they lie have been carved out 

 of one block of stone. Mr. Watson says it 

 is tufa, a rock formed by springs depositing 

 magnesian limestone. The slab is now split 

 down between the effigies into two pieces. 

 ' The effigy to the dexter side, that of a man, 

 wears a legal costume, a gown with long 

 hanging sleeves, richly laced over the upper 

 part of the arm, the " crackling " as it would 

 be called at Cambridge. His right arm is ex- 

 tended along his side and the hand grasps his 

 long hanging sleeve near its end. His left 

 arm is doubled on the chest, and the hand 

 holds a folded paper. The gown reaches to 

 the ground and has a deep round falling col- 

 lar, probably of lawn : the sleeves close-fitting 

 from elbow to wrists, with plain cuffs of lawn 

 or linen. The lady's attitude is similar to 

 that of her husband, except that her left arm 

 is extended at her side and her right doubled 

 upon her chest. She has a ruff" round her 

 neck, a flowing veil over her head, and full 

 sleeves : her gown is gathered in at the waist 

 by a knot of ribbons.' * 



Anthony Hutton died at Penrith in 1637, 

 and was buried in the quire of St. Andrew's 

 Church. His wife, Elizabeth Burdett, who 

 survived him for thirty-six years, placed these 

 effigies in Penrith parish church. 



It is a difficult matter to explain how these 

 monuments ever came to be brought to Great 

 Salkeld. It is supposed that at the pulling 

 down of the old Penrith parish church in 

 1720 they were removed for safety to Hutton 

 Hall, in Penrith, until perhaps a place might 

 be found for them in the new building. In 

 the course of time Mr. Watson says they 

 were claimed by ' Mr. William Richardson, 

 doctor of physic, of Town Head, Penrith, 

 and afterwards of Nunwick Hall,' then called 

 Low House, in Great Salkeld parish. He 

 had married a daughter of Mr. Richard Hut- 

 ton of Gale, a manor in Melmerby, and of 

 Penrith, on the strength of which connection 

 with the Huttons Mr. Watson thinks that he 

 'assumed the Hutton arms, cast the Hutton 

 crest upon the leaden heading of his water 

 spouts, and carried off the Hutton effigies.' 



Bishop Nicolson gives a long account of 

 this monument and the inscription on it. 2 



Mrs. Elizabeth Hutton did not die till 

 1673, so that she must have lived thirty-six 

 years after her own monument was erected, 



1 Trans, of Cumb. and Westm. Antiq. Soc., xii. 



65. 



Miscellany Accounts, pp. 151, 152. 



and all those years have worshipped beside 

 her own recumbent effigy in her parish 

 church. 



II. THOMAS DE CALDEBECK, Archdeacon 

 of Carlisle, died 1320. The archdeacon 

 is clad in amice, alb, chasuble and maniple. 

 His head (on which is the tonsure) rests on 

 a pillow, while at the feet is the figure of a 

 small lion. His hands are clasped in the 

 attitude of prayer. The following inscription 

 in Lombardic capitals runs along the cham- 

 fered margin of the slab under the figure 

 HIC : JACET : MAGISTER : THOMAS I DE I CAL- 

 DEBEC : ARCHIDIAC : KAR(L). 



STANWIX 



A much worn effigy of a female in red 

 sandstone lies in the churchyard south of the 

 church, buried in the grass. There is little 

 to give any clue to the date except the shape 

 of the head, which seems to be without cap, 

 but with a curl on each side. This leads us 

 to believe the effigy to be of the fifteenth 

 century. The arms are very straight and 

 are partly covered with large sleeves, which 

 are seen below the elbows. The feet rest 

 on a greyhound. The effigy is 5 feet 5^ 

 inches long. The Rev. J. R. Wood, the 

 present vicar, says that sixty years ago the 

 figure had the letters G.H.S. cut legibly on 

 the breast, no doubt a modern usurpation, 

 like that of John Crow at Lanercost. This 

 he learnt from a caretaker, who remembered, 

 as a child, often playing upon the monument. 



TORPENHOW 



A very much worn recumbent figure of a 

 lady now standing vertically in the church- 

 yard near the gate. 



WETHERAL 



I. SIR RICHARD SALKELD and DAME JANE 

 his wife, only child and heir of Roland Vaux 

 of Triermain, about 1500. 



Two figures of alabaster, showing traces 

 of colour, gold and vermilion especially. Sir 

 Richard is in plate armour with shirt of mail 

 appearing at the throat and below the taces. 

 The head bare, with hair cut short in front 

 and left long behind, rests on a tilting helmet, 

 much broken, but the crest wreath remains. 

 At the back of the helmet is a shield with 

 the arms of Salkeld (vert a fret silver). On 

 the shoulders are pauldrons, and, as usual in 

 the fifteenth century, the right one is of 

 lighter construction than the left in order 

 to give more freedom to the sword arm. 

 Around his neck is a collar of roses and SS. 

 The arms are broken off", but the hands are 

 seen to have been clasped in prayer on the 



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