Owners Of Ightham
Dec. 11th, 2021 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloSt Peter's Ightham is a modest church with a great collection of funerary monuments. The people they commemorate were all at one time owners of Ightham Mote.
This is St Peter's
This is Ightham Mote (photographed in July of this year)
This is the earliest of the monuments...
Thomas Cawne- whose father was a tailor- took up soldiering, brutalized his way around France in the 1300s- and got a knighthood out of it. His effigy is top quality- and may have been made by the craftsmen responsible for the very famous and very splendid tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
His son Richard (who doesn't rate a monument) tried to kill his wife by throwing her down a well.
Sir Richard Clement was another social climber- and a hanger-on at the court of Henry VIII. His brass has lost its bottom half but retains some of its coloured enamel. Again, it's top quality.
The Selby's owned Ightham Mote for over 300 years. The first of them, William, was soldier, administrator and parliamentarian. He was succeeded by his nephew- another William- and here they are, on their shelves. The monument is attributed to William Wright of Charing Cross- but looks to me like the work of two artists- with the upper William being considerably more lifelike than the lower William...
The upper William was married to Dame Dorothy the embroiderer and supposed betrayer of Guy Fawkes. Here's another image of her tremendous monument. We've had a close up of the righthand angel; here's the one on the left.
This is St Peter's
This is Ightham Mote (photographed in July of this year)
This is the earliest of the monuments...
Thomas Cawne- whose father was a tailor- took up soldiering, brutalized his way around France in the 1300s- and got a knighthood out of it. His effigy is top quality- and may have been made by the craftsmen responsible for the very famous and very splendid tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
His son Richard (who doesn't rate a monument) tried to kill his wife by throwing her down a well.
Sir Richard Clement was another social climber- and a hanger-on at the court of Henry VIII. His brass has lost its bottom half but retains some of its coloured enamel. Again, it's top quality.
The Selby's owned Ightham Mote for over 300 years. The first of them, William, was soldier, administrator and parliamentarian. He was succeeded by his nephew- another William- and here they are, on their shelves. The monument is attributed to William Wright of Charing Cross- but looks to me like the work of two artists- with the upper William being considerably more lifelike than the lower William...
The upper William was married to Dame Dorothy the embroiderer and supposed betrayer of Guy Fawkes. Here's another image of her tremendous monument. We've had a close up of the righthand angel; here's the one on the left.
