Men of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire : being biographical notices of five hundred men and women who were born, or worked, or abode, or died in the county or city of Nottingham, and who, in some way, were distinguished for usefulness to others / by Robert Mellors.
- Mellors, Robert, 1835-
- Date:
- 1924 [i.e. 1925]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Men of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire : being biographical notices of five hundred men and women who were born, or worked, or abode, or died in the county or city of Nottingham, and who, in some way, were distinguished for usefulness to others / by Robert Mellors. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![lands in many parishes near, for the maintenance of a priest and an assistant, who were to pray for many souls specified by name, including the members of his family, the lords of Bingham, Staunton, Cotham, Shelton, Flintham, Syerston, and other parishes, many friends, and especially William and Isabel Durant, who had done him many kindnesses in his sore need. There now came to be six chaplains, and a clerk who was also parish schoolmaster, who slept all night in the church and rang the bell for services, and there was also a singer appointed. Later on he undertook the reconstruction of the whole church at his expense, and added four chapels. [A. Hamilton Thompson. T.S.T. 1912, p. 109]. . Sibthorpe would thus apparently be a centre for priestly and scholastic service. The circular dovecote is now the surviving monument of departed usefulness. Newark gained what Sibthorpe lost. THE SOUTHWELL CRAFTSMEN. Who were they? While Archbishop Thomas has the credit of the Norman nave (about 1108-10) the Lector of Southwell, Archdeacon Conybeare, puts other parts as follows: — WALTER de GRAY, Archbishop of York in 1284, built the Early English choir, with its cloistered columns and pointed windows as it is to-day. JOHN ROMAINE, Archbishop of York, built the beautiful and renowned Chapter House, about 1295. “ And herewith let us express our thanks for that workman whose name is lost to us, but whose handiwork remains to this day—a faithful witness of the piety and wondrous skill of the master builder. This is just. The archbishops may have the credit of purposing, outlining, promoting, directing, paying for, but not for the wondrous skill of successive men who during say a hundred years wrought on the grand build¬ ing with its beautiful proportions of doorway and window, column and arch, and the wondrous cleverness of carved tracery. Who was he that had the most consumate skill](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31353289_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
