Documents relating to the foundation and antiquities of the Collegiate Church of Middleham, in the County of York, with an historical introduction, and incidental notices of the castle, town, and neighbourhood / By the Rev. William Atthill.

Date:
1847
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Credit: Documents relating to the foundation and antiquities of the Collegiate Church of Middleham, in the County of York, with an historical introduction, and incidental notices of the castle, town, and neighbourhood / By the Rev. William Atthill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but no connected subject is now to be discovered. The passion of St. Alkelda was depicted here, glowing “ in colours richly dight,^’ and her own figure yet remains, with a napkin twisted round her neck. This east window, near which is a candle- bracket, is in that part which is comprised in the choir portion of the church; and here was the chantry of our Blessed Lady, founded by John Cartmele. At the extreme west end of this aisle is placed upright a fine slab, which formerly rested on four pillars, in another part of the church.* From the legend it must have come from Jervaulx Abbey, but when is not recorded; it reads— 2Dtate. pro. a’i’a. Uompni. Kobetti. ^ijometon. abbat’. bui'. tomi. 3[otcbauU0. bice0imj Between each word are thorn leaves, at the bottom of the stone more than usual; the diapering of the centre is also composed of thorn leaves, which, with a tun, form a rebus on the name. Out of the tun springs a pastoral staff, behind which is a mitre, and at the sides the initials “ M. On two shields at the top, hung by bands, are devices, one the usual monogram——the other an M with spear and sponge. The whole is in good preservation. “ There is nothing remarkable about the sacristy. In the porch there is a three-foiled niche above the outer door-way, and a mutilated bracket in the north-east corner of the porch itself. * “ A huge flat stone, lately removed from the neighbourhood of the pulpit, which is really the tomb of Robert Thornton, 22nd abbat of Jervaulx.” [a.d.1510.] “ What account can be given of the removal of so massy a stone, and of its being found in a parish church wholly unconnected with the abbey ? It is certain Thornton had not long been dead at the Dissolution ; and, if he were a native of Middleham, and had friends surviving there, it is not improbable that his remains and his gravestone were removed together on that event to a situation where they might be protected, and where he might thenceforward sleep among his friends.” Whitaker’s Richmondshire, i. .3.14.