A topographical account of Tattershall1813 |
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ACCOUNT OF TATTERSHALL An'o Anno d'ni arches Bernack bezanty Arg billets Bishop of Winchester brass figure canopy charged castle and manor chequy d'or chevron betw chiefe G chimney piece choir church of Tattershall collegiate church Collegij qui obijt county of Lincoln Cromwell and Tateshall Cromwell quartering Tateshall cujus d'or and G Deus Amen Driby Duke of Suffolk Earl of Lincoln Edward Empaled engrailed ermyne Fenestris floor following inscription free warren fundatoris hujus granted Harleian Henry VIII Horncastle hujus Collegij Hypericum impaling Cromwell quartering impaling Deincourt inhabitant of Tattershall jacet king letters patent licence Lord Treasurer Cromwell machicolations manor of Tattershall mansion houses militis nave north side Northamptonshire Orate pro a'ia ornamented p’piciet parish parliament Quarterly.-1 quondam Radulphi Richard Stanhope river Witham Sepulchral Monuments socius stained glass surtout a bend Tattershall Castle Tattershall contained Tattershall estate Tattershall Thorpe Theologiæ TOPOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT tower transept Treasury purse turret Wainflet William
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Page 8 - ... smaller, being designed to give light only to the rooms and galleries in that wall. The main walls were carried to the top of the fourth story, where the tower was covered by a grand platform, or flat roof, which, together with the several floors, is entirely destroyed. Surrounding this part of the tower are very deep machicolations, upon which, and part of the main walls, is a parapet of great thickness, with arches, intended to protect the persons employed over the machicolations. Upon these...
Page 3 - January, 1455 ; whereby his two nieces, the daughters of his sisters, the wife of Sir Richard Stanhope, became his coheiresses. It does not appear into whose hands the Tattershall estate fell, after the death of the Lord Treasurer Cromwell, until the year 1487, when Henry VII. granted the manor to his mother, Margaret, Countess of Richmond, and in the following year entailed it on the Duke of Richmond.
Page 7 - The part now remaining, is a rectangular brick tower of exquisite workmanship, about one hundred feet in height, divided into four stories, and flanked by four octagonal turrets; and is raised on ponderous groined arches, forming spacious vaults, which extend through the angles of the building, into the bases of the turrets.
Page 4 - This castle was originally intended as a place of defence, and was surrounded by two fosses, the inner one faced with brick, great part of which is now remaining. Formerly it was of great extent, but was dilapidated in the civil wars between...
Page 4 - About 250 yards South-west of the town, stands the remains of the CASTLE, a stately edifice, erected by the Lord Treasurer Cromwell, about the year 1440. William of Worcester states, that the Lord Treasurer expended in building the principal and other towers of this castle above four thousand marks...
Page 11 - CHAP. iv. architecture, appears to be coeval with the castle, and is now inhabited. On the west of the castle is another remain, apparently of the same date. Each of these buildings is situated between the outer and inner fosse. The principal entrance to the castle, with its portcullis and towers, was standing at the north-east corner of the enclosure, when Buck made his drawing in 1726.
Page 7 - Lincoln, petitioned parliament in the year 1649. The part now remaining, is a rectangular brick tower of exquisite workmanship, about one hundred feet in height, divided into four stories, and flanked by four octagonal turrets ; and is raised on ponderous arches, forming spacious vaults, which extend through the angles of the buildinz, into the buses of the turrets.
Page 11 - Cromwell, habited in full plated armour and a flowing mantle and cordon, the gauntlets reaching to the middle joint of the fingers, a long sword across him from the middle of the belt, and at his feet two wild men with clubs his supporters ; by his side the figure of Margaret his wife. About...
Page 1 - Witham, and distant from the city of Lincoln twenty-two miles, from Boston fourteen, and from Horncastle nine miles. It is a place of considerable antiquity, being generally considered as the Durobrivis of the Romans, who used it as a summer military station; traces of two encampments of that warlike people being still visible, at a short distance from the town, in a place called Tattershall park. Several Roman coins have also been found in different parts of the parish Manor.
Page 11 - Plate II.) stands about eighty yards east of the Castle, near the outer fosse, and is a beautiful and spacious stone structure in the form of a cross, consisting of a square tower, a nave with five arches on a side, and eight clerestory windows placed in pairs, a transept, and a choir. On the north side is a porch, on which are sculptured the arms of William of Wainflete, Bishop of Winchester : formerly there were two porches on the south side, also bearing the arms of the same bishop ; but these...