 Whatton
St John of Beverley
Monuments and Memorials
Click the numbers in the key plan for details of the items.
1
 Left hand
inscription |
 Right hand
inscription |
On the south wall at the east end of the chancel:
In form like three sedilia with pointed trefoil arches.
On left hand side, coat of arms centre top. The upper half of the inscription reads:
Sacred to the memory of Harriott
wife of W H Hall Esq and eldest
daughter of the late Wm Dickinson
Esq of Muskham Grange in this
county. She departed this life
Sep xxii MDCCCXXXVII and her
body resteth in the cemetery of
Gurelle near Calais |
The lower half of the inscription, just deciperable as to W H Hall Esq, is almost obliterated.
On the right hand side is a coat of arms centre top, with the following inscription:
Sacred to the memory of
Cecil Haffenden Hall Captn in
the Scots Fusilier Guards
eldest son of Thomas Dickinson
Hall Esq: who died Augst xx
MDCCClxxiv aged xxx years |
2 At the east end of the south aisle is a reclining figure of Sir Hugh Newmarch in armour of the fourteenth century. Part of his right foot and the left leg below the knee are missing.
3 On the south wall to the east of the door: a memorial tablet, white alabaster on a plain black border with following inscription:
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED
BY EXECUTORS OF THE WILL OF
ELIZABETH BOWER,
LATE OF REDMILE AND FORMERLY OF
WHATTON FIELD SPINSTER DECEASED TO
PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF HER
PATERNAL GRANDFATHER
JOHN BOWER,
OF WHATTON FIELD
WHO DIED DECR 7TH 1800, AGED 72 YEARS.
AND OF HIS CHILDREN
WILLIAM BOWER,
OF WHATTON FIELD
WHO DIED OCTR 20TH 1879, AGED 74 YEARS.
AND THE SAID ELIZABETH BOWER,
WHO DIED OCTR 5TH 1892, AGED 89 YEARS.
ALSO OF HER MATERNAL GRANDFATHER
EDWARD ROWBOTHAM,
OF WHATTON, WHO DIED DECR 18TH 1813 AGED 84 YEARS.
EXEC. ROBERT WATSON, LATE OF SCARRINGTON, &
HENRY WATSON TALBOT, OF SUTTON CUM GRANBY. |
The maker is T Barker, Nottingham.
4 At the west end of the south aisle is a reclining figure of Sir Richard de Whatton with shield, surcoat and crossed legs (d circa 1336). Sir Richard was a descendant of the church’s founder.
5 On return wall above Sir Richard’s head a brass plate engraved in black capitals with rubricated first letter and blazon.
Inscribed as follows:
SIR RICHARD DE WHATTON
SECOND SON OF SIR JOHN DE WHATTON
LORD OF ROKEBURNE CO SOUTHAMPTON
HIGH SHERIFF OF HERTFORDSHIRE AND ESSEX IN THE YEARR 1241,
BY ELLA HIS WIFE
SECOND DAUGHTER AND COHEIR OF JOHN LORD BISET
BARON OF COMBE BISET, CO WILTS
AND OF EAST BRIDGFORD IN THIS COUNTY;
WAS COMMISSIONER OF ARRAY IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE
IN THE YEAR 1316;
AND WAS SUMMONED BY KING EDWARD II IN THE YEAR 1322
TO ATTEND HIM AGAINST HIS REBELLIOUS BARONS;
AND HAD ENTRUSTED TO HIS CUSTODY THE FORFEITED
CASTLES AND ESTATES OF THEIR CHIEF
THOMAS PLANTAGENET EARL OF LANCASTER.
HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE WITHOUT ISSUE.
THE ALTAR-TOMB IN THIS
NORTH CHAPEL OF THE ABOVE SIR RICHARD,
WHICH FORMERLY BORE THIS LEGEND:
“PRIEZ PUR L’ALME DE SIRE RICHARD WHATTON CHIVALIER”
WAS REPAIRED AND THIS TABLET SET UP,
IN THE YEAR 1892 BY
HUGH DE HERIZ WHATTON,
JOHN SWIFT WHATTON M.A. TRIN. COLL. CAMB. AND LINC. INN,
ARUNDELL BLOUNT WM WHATTON
CLERK M.A. TRIN. COLL. CAMB,. HIS KINSMAN. |
It was made by Jones and Willis.
6 On the north wall of the north aisle, to the west of the north door, is a wooden panel commemorating Thomas Cranmer with following inscription painted in black:
In the adjoining hamlet of
ASLACKTON was born, on the
second of July, 1489, the ever-
memorable DOCTOR THOMAS
CRANMER, sometime RECTOR
of this church, ARCHBISHOP of
CANNTERBURY in the reigns of
HENRY the eight, EDWARD the
sixth, and the former part of
that of Queen MARY, and the
most eminent Prelate who ever
filled the metropolitan see.
HE was one of the principal
promoters of the REFORMATION,
and had a leading hand in the
compilation of the RUBRIC, the
ARTICLES and HOMILIES of
the established protestant-
church, and, during the pers-
ecutions in the reign of MARY
the first, he suffered Martyr-
dom, by being burnt at a stake,
opposite BALLIOL-COLLEGE,
OXFORD, on the 20th of March
1556, 7, and died triumphing
his REDEEMER JESUS CHRIST.
G.P. |
(It appears possible that one line of text may have been lost near the bottom of the panel. The author seems uncertain of the year of Cranmer’s death - in fact it was 1556.)
7 In the north wall to the east of the north door is a reclining figure in the cassock of Canon of Welbeck under an arch with leaf moulding and railing around. Above is a brass plate with coat of arms and inscribed in black capitals with rubricating:
This tomb hereunder believed to be that of Robt de Whatton Canon of Welbeck in this County and Vicar of Whatton from the year 1304 to the year 1310 was repaired and this tablet set up in the year 1892 by Hugh de Heriz Whatton John Swift Whatton Arundell Blount Wm Whatton his kinsmen.
Wonder not mortal at they quick decay.
See! Men of marble piecemeal melt away
When whose image we no longer read
But monuments themselves memorials need’.
Crabbe |
8 Towards the east end of the north wall is a memorial stone with blue and red lettering incised dedicated to Thomas Cranmer. In the centre top are the arms of Canterbury impaling Cranmer.
The inscription reads:
IN PROUD AND
THANKFUL MEMORY OF
THOMAS CRANMER
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 1533-1556
TO WHOSE PIETY, LEARNING, SKILL IN LETTERS
THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
GIVES ABIDING WITNESS.
THIS CHAPEL
IN THIS CHURCH WHERE HE WORSHIPPED
AS A BOY WAS RESTORED TO THE
BEAUTY OF HOLINESS
A.D. 1957 |
9On the south returning wall near the east end of what is now the Cranmer Chapel is a brass plate inscribed in Latin decorated with coats of arms. It is dedicated in 1879 to the Dickinson Hall family. The inscription reads:
Ad majorie dei ompotentis gloria et in piam memoria vivi et patris carissimi in vitreis hujf fenestre historia Ascenciois Duice fuptibf juis et liberor fuor depingi fecit Sophia Elizabeth que fait uxor Thome Dickinson Hall Arinigeri Ville de Whatton en le Vale quarda diem et hujf cecthe patroni qui guide Thomas Kenrickior Cranmerior Aslactoniovet et Whattonior sanguine oriundus obit ye die May A ab Incarnacoe MDCCCLXXIX etatis vero LXXI tabula haur encamp erigend mirabit Magr Thomas Kenrick Hall huif ecctie vicarias et pdri Thome filius hatu quartas
In ppetua memoria erit Justus Amen |
10 On the floor in the Cranmer Chapel is a life-size memorial stone to Thomas Cranmer’s father, depicting a squire in repose at prayer with head on a cushion set between family arms. Around the border an inscription reads:
| Hic iscet Thomas Cranmer armiger qui obiit vicesimo septimo die mensis iunii Divi D millisimo M quincen primo ceisus aime propicietur Deus Amen |
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