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length, is of silver: the shaft is divided by bands into Iduring the Long Parliament (1640-60), ob. 3 Sept. 1662.'
three sections, and has a chased foot knop: scrolled separated from the chancel by a fine oak screen on thebrackets support the head, the surface of which is orna­ 1south side is the Bartholomew chapel, containing
mented with the national badges: on the flat top are |numerous altar tombs of stone and mural monuments of
the royal arms of George II. and surrounding it a marble to the Bartholomew family, mostly of the 17th
delicately worked coronet, from which spring depressed Icentury ; it is now used as a vestry, and a new organ
arches forming the crown and surmounted by an orb 1was placed there in 1886: the tracery of the west
and cross; this mace probably dates from 1742. The 1window retains some ancient stained glass collected
smaller mace, 13 3-16 inches in length, is also of silver, together in 1827; the lower portion was filled with
and has a plain slender shaft with five double curved stained glass in 1889 at the cost of Mrs. Allen-Faulkner,
flanges in the centre, and at the end a flat button, like as a memorial to her husband; the west doorway is a
a seal; the head is semi-globular, and has a circlet of good example of Norman work, and has beakhead and
fleur-de-lis and crosses, and on the top the arms of chevron mouldings and twisted shafts: at the east end
France and England quarterly; it probably dates from of the nave, above the western arch of the tower, is a
the 16th century. The borough seal, of silver, is an fine life-sized painting of “ the Crucifixion,” also given
extremely interesting example, and dates from about by Miss Waller:the font, a Decorated work, is cylindrical,
1250; in shape it is a pointed oval or vesica, and bears and surrounded by an arcading of ogee arches, cusped
the figure of a lion rampant to the sinister, and a and crocketed, and containing a representation of u the
marginal inscription: the borough had also another seal Crucifixion,” with other figures; on the top is the
ofthe same date, but smaller, with the figure of a clerk memorandum, “Anthony Sedley, prisneT, 1649,”
vested in almuce and alb, kneeling under a trefoiled scratched on the lead, probably done by one of the
arch, above which was a demi-figure of the Virgin and Levellers previously mentioned: at the west end is a
Child. Burford gives the title of Earl (1676) to the stone bench and an aumbry, a memorial window placed
Duke of St. Albans. After the Civil War an encounter in 1892 to Christopher Falkner, and another erected
took place here in 1649, between the Levellers and the in 1903 by J. M. Falkner esq. and his sister Maria Grace
Parliamentary forces under Cromwell, in which the Falkner, to William Richardson: in the north aisle
former were worsted, and after imprisonment in the are two memorial windows, presented in 1893 by Miss
church had three of their number shot in the church­ Charlotte Ann Price ; here isalsoamassive mural monu­
yard by Cromwell’s order. The town was visited by ment of classicaldesign,witheffigiesand quartered arms,
Queen Elizabeth, August 3rd, 1574 ; in 1645 by Charles to Edmund Harman esq. ob. 1569, his wife Agnes and 16
I.; and in the years 1681, 1687, and 1695 respectively, children: under the easternmost arch of the north
by Charles II., James II., and William III.
arcade of the nave is an ancient chapel of the 15th
The church of St. John the Baptist is a fine but century, called St. Peter’s, surrounded with screen-work
singularly arranged cruciform structure, originally Nor­ and covered in with a canopy or tester, supposed by
man, but now chiefly of the Perpendicular period, con­ the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. to have been erected
sisting of chancel with the Tanfield chapel and vestry on on account of the great distance of the principal altar
the north and Bartholomew chapel on the south side, from the nave and its concealment by the narrowness
clerestoried nave of five bays, north transept, or Pin- of the tower arches: at the east end of this chapel,
nock’s chapel, south transept, or Leggare’s chapel, aisles against the tower pier, is an altar, and above it an
with chapels, a fine porch attached to the south aisle, illuminated reiedos in three compartments, with niches
and a lofty central tower, with a panelled parapet and containing modern figures of Our Lord, the Blessed
pinnacles, and a graceful octagonal ribbed spire, about Virgin and St. Dorothea; the screen-work and roof of
200 feet in height; the tower contains a clock and 8 the chapel are of carved oak, also coloured, and the
bells, dating from 1586; the tenor, which weighs 25 former, which is chiefly open, has a quatrefoiled
hundredweight, is presumed to be older, but is undated: cornice, with a rich cresting: the south aisle, 70
the tower, with the exception of the belfry story and feet long by 10 wide, is open for its entire length to
spire, is rich Late Norman, and the interior, or lantern the south porch and the two adjacent chapels: St.
stages above the main arches, exhibitsome finearcading, Thomas Becket’s chapel, between the south porch
pierced with windows on the north and south sides: and the south transept, and commonly calletT thethe belfry story is of early 15th century work and has a “Burgesses’ Aisle,” is separated from the nave aisle by
square embattled turret at the south-west angle: the an arcade of two arches and an oak screen; it has aoriginal Norman walls of the tower on the north and groined roof, and retains an arcading, a piscina and a
south were pierced, and arches built in the Early English handsome bracket; at the east end isa large blocked arch,
period, but the existing arches were erected to sustain and on the west wall a mural tablet, with effigy, to Joha
the increased pressure caused by the addition of the Harris, a native of this place, and afterwards alderman of
belfry and spire of the 16th century: the chancel, about Oxford, ob. 1674: this chapel was restored in 1887, at the
46 feetlong by 21 wide, has a locker and aumbry on the sole cost of Mrs. Marriott, under the superintendence of
north, and a piscina and sedilia on the south side: the J. D. Sedding esq. architect, and has a stained window
late Perpendicular stained east window, presented by T. given in 1887 by Mrs. Marriott in memory of her
H. Gheatle esq. is a memorial to T. Cheatle esq. and Ann husband, E. J. B. Marriott esq. J.P. of Pershore, d.
Elizabeth, his wife, and is flanked by two canopied 8 June, 1882, and formerly a resident in Burford: Mrs.
niches, restored and filled with figures of St. Mary Marriott also restored the adjoining aisle of the nave:
and St. Gabriel in 1902, when also a memorial window the south porch is a lofty and beautiful specimen of the
was placed on the south side to Charles Bathe Grant Late Perpendicular style, and has a richly panelled front,
M-A. fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford: on the south inclosing three large niches, with crocketed and pinna­
side is an arcade of two arches carried on piers with cled canopies containing mutilated figures; the lower
clustered shafts and opening into the Bartholomew stage has a vaulted roof with fan tracery; above are
aisle, and on the north side and east of the north two rooms or parvises, now used as muniment cham­
transept is a large arch without piers opening to the bers: adjoining the porch on the west and separated
Janfield chapel; this transept, known as the Bell from the south aisle (beyond which it extends westward
founder’s aisle, contains the tomb of Edward Neale, about 30 feet) by an arcade of three arches, is the
bell founder, and Elizabeth his wife: above the com­ chapel of SS. Mary and Ann, orSylvester chapel, socalled
munion table is a fine painting of “the Adoration of the from the numerous altar tombs and mural monuments
Magi and Shepherds,” presented by Miss Waller: the it contains to tbe Sylvester family, dating from 1568 to
vestry on the north side, and east of the Tanfield 1904; it was built in the 13th century, probably as an
cnapel, is Early Perpendicular, and has a vaulted roof, entirely detached chapel, but lengthened eastward and
an ancient stone altar, and a piscinawith four holes and united to the church, by the opening of arches in the
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Taniield chapel, separated from the chancel north wall, in the 15th century; at the south-west
n transept by oak screens, retains a coloured niche or angle is a staircase turret leading to the roof: in the
• 1(laary> discovered in 1874: at the south-east angle chapel is an altar tomb with a shield of arms; there is
a large hagioscope, and in the centre an altar tomb also a mural monument with brass to John Osbaldeston,
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w*th recumbent effigies to Sir Lawrence gentleman, of Chadlington, 1614, and Grace (Ashfield)
an^eld. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, ob. 30 his wife, 1611, with children, and monuments to John
aiv-R'a 1^2^’ an(* Elizabeth Cobbe, his wife, beneath an Sindery and William Warren: a reredos and open screen
al e canopy supported on pillars; the tomb is were added to this chapel in 1911: the south transept, or
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alaorne^ "with numerous figures, shields of arms Burgesses’aisle, called also “ Leggare’s chapel,” was re­
"whole being richly coloured, and there are stored in 1887, and has on the east side a remarkable
FHtoI *i!nS *n katin arid English; his only daughter feathered arch, now blocked, within which is a small
and tv, married Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland, window and a piscina; the large window of this transept
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t'ke*r son> t-he famous Lucius Lord is Early Perpendicular and has inscribed on its interior
WilKni^ TaPPeaTs on the tomb: here also was buried arch— “ Orase ” (? orate) “ pro animabus patris et
m Eenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons matris Johannis Leggare de Borford per quern ista