Identifier: historyoforigina00whit (find matches)
Title: An history of the original parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe : in the counties of Lancaster and York, to which is subjoined, an account of the parish of Cartmell
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, 1759-1821
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Publisher: London : Nichols, Son, and Bentley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e Hdrrington knot. These are inclosed on the East and West, by the plain walls of thearch already mentioned, and on the North and South by the remains of a very singular screenof freestone, which exactly harmonizes with the base of the tomb. Still they are evidentlyfragments, detached from some other work ; as a portion of another arch of the screen, yetcommon to that and of those belonging to the tomb itself, is inserted, for security, intothe wall. On the frieze of the basement are groupes of monks, some with their cowls over theirheads, others bare; some sitting, others kneeling; the former reading, the latter praying. Notwithstanding these appearances of dislocation, and the apparent difference in point oftime between the statues and the screen, several shields are cut in the stone-work of the latter,with the arms of Harrington painted upon them. On the more modern walls of the arch thesame are repeated, and one appears struck through a thick coat of whitewash—(the whole work is
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3lG»n:M)E^^T W THE HARRIXHTON Jtl3IILYI> CARTMEL CJ11E1R/.Jv,.//../,..,^/ ., //.>/^ PARISH OF CARTMELL 557 is covered with the gathered whitewash of an hundred years)—bearing the three escallops of Dacre,which will only fix the aera of the work according to the opinion of the painter, as it is on themodern wall of the arch. Immediately beneath this, and within the town-chapel, is the cum-bent and colossal figure of a female, wholly unappropriated by arms, inscription, or tradition. After the Dissolution, this church was neglected for 80 years ; when, as it appears from theaccurate accounts of the parish, George Preston, ofHolker, Esq. covenanted with the vestry,in consideration of forty marks and as much of the old lead as could be spared, to cover thegreater part of the building with a new roof. This circumstance should not have been concealedin his epitaph, where the whole work is represented as having been the act of his own gratuitousbounty. Still, however, there can be l

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