Chapter XV: Appendix: F

THE LAST OF THE CLERGY

=Prebendaries=.

Beckingham =Thomas Henry Shepherd=, the
last of the prebendaries, died Feb.
1873, on whose death the patronage
of the chapter went to the bishops
of Ripon and Manchester. He was rector
of Clayton and S. Wheatley.

Dunham =Thomas Cozens Percival.=

Eton =William Barrow.=

Halloughton =Robert Lowe.=

North Leverton =Henry Smith.=

North Muskham =Charles Boothby.=

South Muskham =John Thomas Becher.=

Normanton =George Wilkins=, vicar-general and
Archdeacon of Nottingham. After
the Act of Dissolution he lived at
the Residence House, and died
there 1865.

Norwell Overhall =Chas. Geo. Venables Vernon.=

Norwell Palishall =Robert Chaplin.=

Norwell Tertia Pars =Edward Denison= (B. of Salisbury).

Oxton and Cropwell = James Jarvis Cleaver.=

Oxton Altera Pars =Frederick Anson= (D. of Chester).

Rampton =Fitzgerald Wintour.=

Sacrist =Charles Nixon.=

Woodborough =Edward Garrard Marsh.=

Parish Vicar =Morgan Watkins.=

=Minor Canons or Vicars-Choral=.

=Alfred Tatham= (1841-76). =Robert Frederick Smith, M.A.=, vicar of Edingley-cum-Halam. Late scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford. Succeeded Mr Dimock (preferred to Barnburgh in 1863), and still remains. The last clergyman associated with the defunct chapter. He was ordained as curate to the Rector of Southwell in 1856.

DIMENSIONS--EXTERIOR.

Length--318 feet. Length of Nave--185 feet. Width of Nave--72 feet.
Choir--Length, 128 feet. Choir Aisles--Length, 98 ft.
Choir, with Aisles--Breadth, 73 feet.
Choir, with both Transept Chapels--Breadth, 108 feet.
Height of Central Tower, 105 feet.
Height of Western Tower, 99 feet.
Do., including Modern Spires, 149 feet.]

FOOTNOTES

[1] The repeated attempts to connect Southwell with the Tiovulfingacestre of Baeda must be dismissed as unsupported. To make matters more puzzling still, Henry of Huntingdon, who says he relied upon Baeda, writing in the twelfth century, calls the place of the baptising the town “now called Fingecestre.”

There was no such town; there was the little riverside hamlet of Fiscartune, now called Fiskerton, the nearest spot on the Trent to Southwell; and Henry was perhaps thinking of this when he wrote. Baeda says that a convert told a monk named Daeda, and Daeda told him, that he, the convert, had been baptised in the Trent near the “civitas” called in the language of the Angles Tiovulfingacestre. This name has been hopelessly lost. In itself, no place so well satisfies this second-hand account, as where the river, after passing under Clifton Grove, sweeps by Wilford Church. Here the bed is so formed that the priest could stand in comfort, and have plenty of water for immersion; while Nottingham, close at hand, might then have been a settlement sufficiently large to be called a “civitas.” Southwell was not large enough. Or, perhaps, Torksey or Littleborough is meant.

[2] Appendix A. The Culdees.

[3] Prebendas apud Suthwell fecit.

[4] So far as the letter of Archbishop Thomas goes, being without date, it might have been written by either Thomas; but the finely pointed masonry and the later Norman in the architecture suggest the second Thomas.

[5] _Decano_; but there was no dean, though one appears afterwards.

[6] Ab omni jure & consuetudine episcopali ... penitus & immunes.

[7] Leach, p. xxxv. Dugdale also states that once there was a dean.

[8] Ornsby’s “York,” p. 161.

[9] On this subject see Gwilt’s “Architecture,” p. 126.

[10] Leach, p. 197.

[11] In the will of Robert Batemanson there is a reference to “my Lord William Bothe’s quer,” which implies that William, and not Laurence, restored it.

[12] There was a third at Laneham, on the Trent.

[13] The present area, including that of the modern daughter parish of Holy Trinity, is put down at over 5000 acres.

[14] In which, however, the accused was acquitted.

[15] There were two for the three prebends of Normanton, and one for Oxton.

[16] Mais si belle qu’elle se soit conservée en vieillissant, il est difficile de ne pas soupirer, de ne pas s’indigner devant les dégradations, les mutilations sans nombre que simultanément le temps et les hommes ont fait subir au vénérable monument ... Si nous avions le laisir d’examiner une à une avec le lecteur les diverses traces de destruction imprimées à l’antique église, la part du temps serait la moindre, _la pira celle des hommes_ ... et ce que nous disons de l’église cathédrale de Paris, il faut le dire de toutes les églises de la chrétienté au moyen âge. (“Notre Dame,” livre troisième, c. 1.). I have discussed the effect of the Great Pestilence upon architecture in the _Gentleman’s Magazine_ Aug. 1897.

[17] _Builder_, July 2, 1892, p. 12. This term “Romanesque” has become a ready source of confusion. It is used in at least two distinct senses.

(a) The architecture prevalent in Western Europe contemporary with our Anglo-Norman. In this sense it appears to be used by the writer in the _Builder_; and I should say that the intersection of the arcading ought to be added to the “Romanesque” peculiarities.

(b) As a general term for the architecture prevalent in Western Europe prior to the introduction of the Gothic. In this latter and more accepted use of the term English Saxon and Norman architecture would both be included. The term was intended to imply of Roman or Italian origin.

[18] _Saturday Review_, Nov. 29, 1879, p. 662.

[19] The dimensions of the Norman choir were discussed by Mr Dimock in a paper read before the British Archæological Association, and published in their _Journal_ of January 1853. Mr C. Hodgson Fowler, who has been long intimately acquainted with his subject, in the _Architect_ of June 23rd, 1877, takes a somewhat different view. The evidence appears to be too slight for the most careful and correct of experts to agree altogether.

[20] See the remarks on Booth’s Chapel and Appendix C.

[21] _Builder_, July 2nd, 1892.

[22] The Early Decorated tracery is arranged principally in circles, quatrefoils, and other regular figures, with the featherings for the most part confined to the larger piercings: this is usually called _Geometrical_ tracery. (Parker’s “Glossary.”)

[23] These measurements, which have been carefully made from a ground plan, differ slightly from those of Mr Louis Petit in the _Memoirs of the Archæological Institute_ of 1850, p. 208.

[24] Nevertheless, it is to be hoped that the reports that it is not watertight against storms are not correct.

[25] _Vide_ p. 20.

[26] The Cinque Cento style prevailed from the “commencement of the fifteenth century until the general introduction of enamel colours about the middle of that century.”--CHARLES WINSTON.

[27] Called Passage on plan.

[28] It is to be regretted that the vestibule and chapter-house are so difficult of access. The authorities that be appear to treat them as a species of holy of holies. The only possible objection to a more liberal policy--a regard for vested interests--the Commissioners would surely make good.

[29] Canon Ornsby buries Aldred at York, and Mr Livett at Southwell. Holgate retired to Hemsworth; but his burial is not in that parish register. An old metrical chronicle makes Corbridge die at Laneham.

[30] Perhaps the last survivor of those who remembered Byron was Mrs Alfred Tatham, a daughter of Mr Becher. She told me she distinctly remembered, as a very little girl (it was about her earliest recollection), sitting on the poet’s knee, who was fond of children. Mr Becher’s grandson still lives in the house with which Byron was familiar.

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