vided into two lights by one mullion, which branches off at the top into ramifications. The East window is Pointed, and consists of three lower and six upper lights. Near the entrance from the nave is a blue slab robbed of its brasses. Against the North wall is an altar tomb, once ornamented with brass round the edge; on the South side of the tomb are three shields, but so completely bedaubed with that enemy of antiquaries-whitewash, as to be quite unintelligible. On this tomb stands a chest in which the Registers have been kept. The as- "In memory of Ann Serocold, late of Littlebury, in the county of Essex, widow, who died January the 9th, Anno Domini 1766, ætat. 78." In the North wall of the chancel The entrance to the Church, through the porch, is by a Saxon doorway, within the arch of which is a row of small rudely-executed figures in bas relief. The nave is separated from the steeple by a Pointed arch, from the aile by four low pointed arches upon three pillars, two of which are octangular, and the remaining one is round. At the West end is a gallery for singers. This part of the Church is lighted on the South by four windows. The first is a round-headed recess, and in the window is divided into two lights by South wall a trefoil-headed piscina. a mullion, part of which is broken A pedestal in the East wall for an off. The lower part of the next window is divided by two mullions, which image. The chancel is open to the branch off at the top into six divi-roof, which is at present in a state sions; in this window are some small remains of painted glass. The third window consists of two lights at the bottom and four at the top. * The fourth window, which is above the one last mentioned, is of later date. In the middle of the nave lies a large blue slab reaved of its brass. The pulpit and reading-desk are fixed in the North-east corner of the nave, the former is octangular and carved. At the South-east corner is an old pew, carved. The nave is separated from the chancel by a pointed arch, at the top of which is a carved head; under the span of the arch, which is closed up, are fixed the Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments, and the Belief'; and under these is a neat wooden screen. You enter the chancel by two folding-doors, painted in imitation of mahogany. The CHANCEL is lighted on the South by two windows, each one di Norf. Propr. Mrs. Tyrrell. Clear yearly value 197. 4s. King's books 81. yearly Tenths 16s. among "Livings discharged."-Ecton's Thesaurus, and Bacon's Liber Regis. of melancholy neglect. The spar rows from an adjoining farm-yard have uninterrupted ingress and egress through the broken tiles. In the neighbouring, and in most churches, the chancel is kept in the neatest order, but here- -I'll say no more. Against the South wall and above the piscina is a marble monument, with pierced Sa. Killingworth; quartering, these arms: Ar. 3 cinquefoils, 2 & 1, Ar. a chev. Sa. betw. 3 trefoils of the last; and the following inscription in capital letters, once gilt: "Here lyeth the bodye of John Killingworth, esqvier, whoe was twise married: his former wife was Beatrix davghter of Robert Allington of Horseheath, by whome he had twoe sonnes and fower davghters; the latter was Elizabeth the davghter of William Cheyney esqvire, by whome he had thre sonnes and fower davghters. He died the 23 of Maye anno 1617, ætatis suæ 70. "A hvsband, father, friend he was, All the exceptions envye wonte to take; Under Under a chest (in which the parish papers are kept) within the communion rails, is a blue slab reaved of the brass. The AILE is lighted by one window, to the West, divided by two mullions, which branch off at the top into various ramifications; to the North by two windows consisting of three lights at the bottom, and many compartments at the top formed by the ornamental part of the stone division. In both these windows are remnants of painted glass. In the second window is a figure having a golden crown on his head, a crosier or pastoral staff in his left hand; in his right a book, and a scroll before him with this inscription: "Etheldreda.” And in another part of the same window, the figure of a lady with flowing hair and a mantle over her shoulders; her right hand is uplifted, her left is laid on her breast; at her feet a scroll bears this inscription: “Agatha.” Against the West pillar is placed the font; the upper part is octangular, and lined with lead, the lower part is square; there is an antique cover on the top are two figures, intended, I think, for John baptizing Jesus; both figures are decapitated, the handywork, perhaps, of the Cambridgeshire Reformer, William Dowsing. In the middle of the aile there is a slab inscribed, "W. P. Hammond."Against the wall are four hatchments: 1. Per pale, Gu. & Az. 3 demy lions passant gardant Or, Hammond: on a coat of pretence, Az. a buck trippant Or, on a canton Az. a ship Or. qu? Parher. Crest, a wolf's head erased, quarterly Or & Az. Hummond. 2. & 3. The same arms as those in the coat of pretence. 4. The same, impaling the same. There is a vault under the aile be longing to the Hammond family. The aile seems to have extended farther by an arch at the East end, which is now blocked up. The impropriate rectory and adVowson of the vicarage, which belonged formerly to the nuns of Blackeburgh, to whom it was appropriated in the year 1377, were, after the Reformation, successively in the families of Wood and Tyrrell, and are now the property of John Mortlock, esq. of Cambridge: the parish has been inclosed pursuant to an act of parliament, passed in 1799, by which allotments of land were given in lieu of tithes. ..... Willys occurs vicar in 1715. Edm. Mapletoft was vicar in July 1730; how long before I cannot exactly say. Another Edm. Mapletoft was presented in Jan. 1744-5; but resigned the same month. I cannot give the names of the vicars previous or subsequent to those just mentioned, as I have not had an opportunity of examining the Registers. The present Vicar is the Rev. D. Mulis. The Rev. F. Henson, M. A. and Fellow of Sidney College, is Curate. John Purchas is parish clerk. By the Returns made under the Act of Parliament for ascertaining the population of this kingdom in 1801, it appears that there were in Pampisford 35 inhabited houses, 46 families, 202 persons: in 1811, 49 inhabited houses, 49 families, 237 persons. CHURCHYARD. South side, on an altar-tomb. Mrs. Frances Apthorp, junior, departed this life October the 26th 1738, aged 29 years. Mrs. Frances Apthorp, senior, October 9th, 1758. 73. Upright stones. Elizabeth, wife of William Scruby, March 30, 1799. 26. "Her God sustain'd her in her final hour, John Tilbrook, November 4, 1777. 62. Altar tomb, in capital letters,, "Dns. Robertus Gells: T: Professor Socivs olim Coll: Xti Cantab: et eccles' Scæ Mariæ Aldermarii London per spati XXIII Annorum Rector integer . obiit Martii xx anno Xti 1665 ætatis suæ 70. cvjvs reliqviæ svb hoc marmore servantvr. Robertus Gellius..... ...... ........ ........ Elizabetha itidem uxor fida in hac parochia obiit xii Septembris 1668 cvjvs etiam reliquiæ sub hoc marmore servantvr. Hoc obsequi............ posuit Elizabetha unica quam superstitem reliquerunt." Upright Upright Stones. Ann Beeton, December 23, 1780. 67. A better friend and parent ne'er was man, Also Martha Nash, aged 17 years." obliged to spread it from North to South, which makes the plan oblong, which otherwise should have been square, &c." Gibbs's Book of Architecture, printed in 1728. Plan; oblong, 38 by 64 feet; entrance, by a semicircular portico, through a double wall, in which a vestibule centrically; on each hand circular stairs to small gallery over interior part of entrance, supported by double columns. East end, semicircular large recess for the altar; on left, stairs from the exterior Eastward; on right, circular vestry. West front. In three divisions; first story; in center division, circu Upright stones at the East end of lar Ionic porch, dome head, guide the chancel: Mary Simperingham, Sept. 4, 1779. 75. Steph. Simperingham, Sept. 8,1778. 65. Thos. son of Stephen & Mary Simperingham, Oct. 14, 1750. 9. Mary, daughter of Stephen and Mary Simperingham, April 27, 1749, aged 4. John Barten, Jan. 6, 1777. 22. Ellen, his wife, Feb. 21, 1777. 27. John Barton, Dec. 7, 1798. 33 years. Mary his, daughter, Feb. 4, 1799, 18 months. RICHMONDIENSIS. ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION. Progress of Architecture in ENG- (Continued from p. 135.) the Duke of Somerset 1549.-Act of "The new church in the Strand, called St. Mary-le-Strand, was the first public building I was employed in after my arrival from Italy; the Commissioners for building the fifty Churches (of which this is one) spared no cost to beautify it. It consists of two orders, the wall of the lower being solid, to keep out noises from the street, is adorned with niches. There was at first no steeple designed; a turret for a bell was to have been over the West end; afterwards I was ordered to erect a steeple. I was, from circumstances, roned, supporting an urn enriched tion. The steeple commences (which so as either to cloy the eye, or diminish the satisfaction at first entertained; and, it is believed, no other example of modern ecclesiastical architecture presents the like system of repetition, which, we are compelled to own, has its peculiar charm. ® Material, stone. ing in centre, scrolls at the angles, topped with a receding plain dome head; inclosing a guideron shield; on this decoration a ball and vane. The flank or profile of the steeple is excellently contrived to do away, in a great measure, the unusual and seemingly impropriety of an oblong plan, in a repetition of the centrical Interior. Judiciously arranged; no features only, diversified and ren- galleries to disfigure the lines, exceptdered pleasing in the front appearing a small one over the entrance, to ance by the detached columns to the first tier. South side, or frent; two stories as in the West ditto; (Westward, profile of portico; Eastward, profile of circular recess.) First story; seven divisions; first and seventh of which, repetitions of the side divisions of West front, in pilasters, windows, &c. the intermediate five divisions are so formed by Ionic three quarter columns, inclosing niches. Second story: seven divisions in continuation; first and seventh, repetition of side divisions West front, as the intermediate five are repetitions of its centrical Corinthian columns, and pediments. In these seven divisions are as many windows; between the pediments, pedestals supporting urns, balusters in continuation. East-front; two stories as before, three divisions; first story, Ionic pilasters; centre division, three windows with circular heads (of increased dimensions for lighting the altar) beneath them tablets filled with sculptures; in side divisions, doorways. Second story. Corinthian pilasters, centrically three niches, on sides left and right, windows; general entablature of pedestals supporting urns, balusters in continuation. Side windows on West front, and those in repetition on South side and East fronts, with the niches, have circular heads, scrolls attached, with pediments, both triangular and circular, in which are cherubim heads and festoons of fruits and flowers; and those windows of larger dimensions arranged with them, give angel head key-stones; East end is much enriched with compartments containing books, writing implements, flowers, corn, palm branches, &c. North side, same as the South ditto. There is a studied regularity in the decorations on every part of the exterior; the particulars on the West front give the lead to those dis played on every other aspect, yet not Eu ap contain the organ, and the pews rise no higher than the general dado. The uprights in two stories; they have breaks centrically at the West and Eastern ends with Corinthian columns, against the several piers ditto pilasters, between them large-compartments intended for paintings; in the dado, compartments also. trance at West end, circular-headed doorway, with double Corinthian pilasters. East end opens into the circular recess for the altar, its arched head taking in the whole height of second story; the effect is highly imposing, and the enrichments are a propriate and elaborate. This, being the most attractive point of the whole place, certainly demanded alt the Architect's attention, his utmost skill; indeed he appears to have obeyed the "order of the Commissioners to spare no cost," and sufficiently to do honour to his royal mistress who first suggested the idea of an accumulation of places of divine worship, and no doubt, strictly adhered to her instructions in what manner the altar should be accompanied, not alone by architectural forms, but by symbo lical embellishments. On either hand, at the commencement of the recess, doorways; that on the left, entrance from the street; that on the right, the vestry: these doorways are pedimented, and over them compartments with paintings, probably the first specimens of what was to have adorned the several compartments on the uprights; one the Salutation of the Virgin Mary, the other Our Saviour in the Garden, by Brown'; paintings happily conceived, and well executed. Altar; baluster railing in a sweeping direction before it; three large circular-headed windows; ebelow them, and immediately above the altar, three tabernacle compartments; side ones circular-headed, centre ditto, open scroll pediment, supporting. an urn with cherubim heads (a decoration certainly referring to the the antient service of the church); these tabernacles not enriched, probably once covered, or intended to be, with altar-like allusions. In the dome head of the recess, three grand compartments (following the symme try of the windows below), full of splendid scriptural emblems; centrically, the lineal representation of the Trinity, surrounded with cherubim heads, rays of glory, foliages, &c. The upright of the recess terminates with a pediment enclosing the sovereign's arms. On second story the range of windows, the circular heads of which break into the elliptical arch of the cieling as small groins: the cieling itself, which is of a magnificent turn, is entirely compartmented in square and diamond forms alternately, filled with large flowers; the dividing architrave foliaged. Notwithstanding the unbounded embel lishments marking the altar recess, cieling, and tiers of Corinthian columns and pilasters, the mouldings in the entablatures are but partially enriched, and their friezes left entirely plain, as in the preceding designs, mauifesting that the Wrenean school still maintained an influence not easily to be relinquished. Pews, as already stated, in no way interfering with the uprights, are of plain appear ance; the reading-desk assumes some kind of ornamental consequence; and the pulpit completes the climax, by an increase of guiderons, foliages, and cherubim heads; its plan hexangular, the stem, and sounding board of the pulpit plain, suggesting an opinion that they are some economical reparation, perhaps done when the pulpit and reading-desk were removed, about twelve years past, from their rubric appropriate situations on the side of the interior to their present altar-hiding position. Whoever first set about this pulpit fancy of innovatory removal, (now become a common practice) has much to answer for, in having offended architectural propriety, not to say ecclesiastical decorum, and rendered of but little interest, objects on which much labour and expence had been bestowed, as in the present instance. To carry on the unpleasant sensations of this kind of derangement, a Buzaglio stove, placed before the pulpit, is also made part of the same objectionable expedient. Upon the whole, this interior is unique; and though the "first" trial of the Artist's genius, certainly his most chaste and elegant work; and, that no censure may attach to his memory in point of common judgment, let it be stated, that a plain gallery has, at a latter day, been attached to the original organ gallery at the West end; in a word, it not only disfigures the contiguous decorations, but is a disgrace to the manifest splendour of the sacred pile. AN ARCHITECT. Mr. URBAN, Cosford, near Rugby, ONE of the ill-fated family of Rat cliffe, when seeking concealment, lost his life in crossing a Ford in Hertfordshire about the year 1715. When this happened, his favourite dog, which had constantly attended him, returned to his house in Hattongarden, leaped into an arm-chair which Mr. Ratcliffe generally used, and died instautly. He is supposed to have been Francis, second son of Francis, second Earl of Derwentwater, and, of course, brother of James the third Earl, who was beheaded in 1715, and of Charles (the fourth TITULAR Earl) who was executed in 1746. Perhaps some of your intelligent Correspondents can inform me, whether any traditional story of these circumstances is still in existence in the county of Hertford if any Ford is now called Ratcliffe's Ford, in consequence of Mr. Ratcliffe's being drowned there: or, in short, if any memorial or account of his death is to be met with near to the scene of it. Authentic infor mation on any of these points, and any intelligence which may lead to the discovery of the very house in Hatton-garden which Mr. Ratcliffe formerly occupied, will, from particular circumstances, prove a source of great satisfaction to some of his descendants, aud, amongst them, to Yours, &c. H. L-N. *** A FRIEND OF DEPARTED WORTH regrets that our account of so profound a Scholar as the Rev. THOMAS HowES, Author of "Critical Observations," and several Theological works, is record some memorial more extended, so very brief; is anxious that we should and better proportioned to his merits as a Scholar and Divine, for the information of posterity. We shall be obliged to any of his relatives or acquaintance who will favour us with a more enlarged account of his life and writings. |