By C. E. Panting, F.S.A. 427 



and teaches a l)oy and a girl to write on eitlier side, a carpenter's 

 bag with his tools lies at his feet (Plate X.). ]>elow is this in- 

 scription : — 



" Sacred to the memory of Mr, Thomas Spackman, Carpenter, a native 

 of this parish, who being blessed by Providence after many yeares 

 industry and frugality in London, retired to Kimbolton in Huntingdon- 

 shire, where he died October the 13th, 1786, aged 76 years, and was 

 buried agreeable to his will within the aisle close to this monument, 

 the 29th of the same month. In his last Will and Testament (after 

 making ample provision for his wife and six nephews and nieces) he 

 bequeathed the sum of One Thousand Pounds sterling to be laid out 

 and invested in the purchase of Pank three per cent, consolidated 



k Annuities in the names of trustees, the Dividends thereof for ever to 

 be disposed of as follows, viz.. First for the repairing and keeping clean 

 this monument, and painting the iron railings once in every five years. 

 Secondly to apply the sum of Thirty Pounds yearly for the support and 

 maintenance of a school master to teach all the poor children of this 

 |L parish reading, writing, and arithmetic. The residue of the said 

 I Dividends to be disposed of in Loaves of bread to the poor of this 

 B parish every Sunday morning in this Church." 



^k On the north wall is a helmet of the beginning of the 16tli 



^Rntury. A canopied tomb constructed of chalk once existed 



in the north chapel, from which the two kneeling figures, supposed 



lo be John and Eliz. Goddard, now on either side of the chancel 



arch above the screen, were probably taken. 



' This Church is on a scale distinctly above the ordinary run of 



I village Churches both in design and material, for tlie proportions 



' are stately, the whole is faced externally with freestone on the 



1 south side, and the work is very thorough and good. 



There are the following modern stained glass windows : — 



The east window. To the memory of the Pev. Edward 



Goddard, (li(Ml Tl\\i\ Jan., 18.'J0, and Anniea Susan, his wife. 



The small two-light window on the south side within i ho rails, 



to Anne Elizabeth, wife of IT. N". Goddard, who died 



Feb. '21st. 1849, aged .'U, and Katherine Annie, (heir 



(lan-bl(M-, wlio .lii'd Nov. 19, ISf)!. ag.vl 9 years Also 



Susan Wt'iden and IMward W'cidcn. their eliildien, who 



(lied in inlaney. 



The wesleriininst- twn-li;_^]it wiielow tni t hi' snut h side nf t he 



chancel has <dass ]i\' INiwcll tn the nienmrv of Ileralio 



