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Home Page Virtual Visit Inside the Church The Chancel The Sanctuary Nevill Monument |
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To the north-east is the large Nevill monument. Edmund Nevill,
styled the "Seventh Earle of Westmerland" and Dame Jane, his wife,
and represented by kneeling effigies, 1 m (3 ft) high, under a
canopy adorned with emblems, numerous shields, and three inscriptions.
Above are figures of Hope and Prudence, with the Nevill coat-of-arms.
In front of the tomb were small kneeling figures of 7 children,
including the Katherine Nevill who was buried here in 1613. (Unfortunately
the smallest child has been stolen).
Charles Nevill, the sixth Earl of Westmorland, was involved in one of the conspiracies to place Mary Queen of Scots on the throne. |
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| He escaped to Flanders, and his titles and estates were forfeited. Edmund Nevill, the next succession, tried to get James I to reverse the attainder, but without success. Thus he had no right to the title seventh Earl of Westmorland. It seems evident that the monument was erected during the lives of Edmund Nevill and his wife, on the death of their daughter Katherine, and thus it is highly probable that they attended services in this church and gazed at their own effigies, and, we hope, admired them. | ||
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