BEDDING TON CHURCH. 1 3 



round it. At the southern entrance is an old porch, and a new lych- 

 gate made of oak has lately been added to the western side of the 

 church. 



In this church are some curious old brasses and monuments, most 

 of which were erected to the memory of the Carews, the great owners 

 of lands in this parish. In the time of Aubrey and of Lysons, there 

 were many brasses extant in the chancel, where the Carews were 

 formerly interred before the building of the mortuary chapel. There 

 is still one large brass, quite perfect, in the chancel, with the figures of 

 Nicholas Carru and of Lsabella his wife. The woman's arms are two 

 lions passant. This Nicholas Carew died in 1432', and was the son of 

 that Carru who married Lucy Huscarle. On the adjoining stone are 

 brass figures of two other members of the Carew family ; they are, how- 

 ever, of much smaller size than the one above described. The chapel 

 situated at the south-east corner of the chancel was erected in the 

 sixteenth century. Sir Richard Carew, Lieutenant of Calais in the reigns 

 of Henry VII. and Henry VIII., was the first to be interred in it; it 

 is an altar tomb. Among the many other monuments in the chapel to 

 this family, the one mo.st worthy of notice is that to Sir Francis Carew. 

 It is of black and Sienna marbles, supported by two Corinthian pillars ; 

 between these pillars lies the statue of a man in full armour, with a 

 long inscription showing that it is the resting-place of Sir Francis 

 Carew, and recording the fact of his having had the honour to entertain 

 his royal mistress at his house at Beddington. In the front part of this 

 monument are the figures of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, his wife, with 

 their five sons and two daughters, all in a kneeling posture. Admiral 

 Sir Benjamin Hallowell, one of the heroes of the battle of the Nile, 

 is also buried in this chapel. 



There is another ancient brass, which is placed in the north aisle 

 of the church ; it is to a steward of Sir Nicholas Carew — Thomas 

 Greenhill was his name ; he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, 

 and died in 1633. 



Sir Nicholas Carru, the founder of the family at Beddington, and 

 the husband of Lucy, daughter of Sir William Willoughby, directed 



