CHURCH 9 LAMBOURNE VIEW LOOKING EAST. ESSEX. Londen Pub. Dec. 1 1825.1y J. P. Neale 16. Bennet St Blackfriars Read. St. Mary and All Saints Church, LAMBOURNE, ESSEX; RECTOR, REV. ROBERT SUTLEFFE, B. D. THIS Church was given by Robert de Lambourne to the Canons of Waltham Holy Cross, in the reign of Henry III.; it afterwards became a Rectory, and continued in their gift till the dissolution, when it came successively into the hands of Sir Anthony Cook, Nicholas Bacon, Catharine Barefoot, &c. Dr. Thomas Tooke purchased the advowson of Nich. Staphurst, of Billericay, in 1712, and bequeathed it to Corpus Christi College, at Cambridge, of which he had been a fellow. The building is small, being not more than seventy feet in length by twenty-one in breadth, and is not an object of any particular interest, excepting for its interior beauty and the very fine Monuments it contains, of which we have given a view. The Chancel, however, is ornamented with three windows of stained glass, and a fourth, containing five pieces of curious old painting, viz. a representation of the Smooth Ways of Sin and the Rugged Paths of Virtue; the Nativity; the Adoration of the Magi; Christ walking on the Sea; and the Crucifixion: these were brought from Basle in 1817, and bear a German inscription. At the East end, upon the north side of the Altar, is a marble monument to the memory of Dr. Thomas Wynnyff, Bishop of Lincoln, Dean of St. Paul's, and Rector of this Parish, ob. 19th Sept. 1654, æt. 78. The father of the Bishop was also buried here, John Wynnyff, of Sherbourne, Dorset, Gent., ob. 27th Sept. 1630, æt. 92. Opposite to the Bishop's Monument is one of white and grey marble, to the memory of Dr. Thomas Tooke, ob. 24th May, 1721, æt. 54. Outside the rails of the Altar, in the centre, is buried the body of the Rev. Michael Tyson, B. D. F. R.S., a celebrated antiquary and Rector of this Parish, who died in 1780, but no inscription records his inter ment. |