Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ST. MARYS, Ormerod, Photo. 12 Transactions for the Year igoi. is exceedingly good ; but the restoration is so thorough that it is difficult,without careful examination, to say how much is new and how much isold. In the S. aisle is a fine Elizabethan tomb, with stone canopy supportedby six fluted columns and two pilasters about five feet high. On a slabrecline the life-sized effigies of Edward Veele, Esq., and Catharine, hiswife, who died in 1577 anc^ J575 respectively. The male figure is bare-headed, and w
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ST. MARYS, Ormerod, Photo. 12 Transactions for the Year igoi. is exceedingly good ; but the restoration is so thorough that it is difficult,without careful examination, to say how much is new and how much isold. In the S. aisle is a fine Elizabethan tomb, with stone canopy supportedby six fluted columns and two pilasters about five feet high. On a slabrecline the life-sized effigies of Edward Veele, Esq., and Catharine, hiswife, who died in 1577 anc^ J575 respectively. The male figure is bare-headed, and wears enormous pauldrons, brassarts of several pieces,. VEELE MONUMENT, F. Tuckett, Photo. breastplate, a divided skirt of mail over trunk hose, jambs, genouillieres,broad sollerets and spurs. The lady wears a Paris hood, stomacher,and small ruff, full padded sleeves, sash, and very full skirt. His headrests on a calf and hers on a wheatsheaf, crests of the Veele family. Inthe three panels below the slab are the figures of one male and fourfemales, adult children of Edward and Catherine Veele, with names were—Edward, Margaret, w. of Anthony Bradston, Elizabeth,w. of Thomas Pym, Agnes, w. of Thomas Elkington, and Susan, w. ofJohn Large. These Veeles were a branch of the Tortworih family, and their Over Court. 13 pedigree is given in the Heralds Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1623, p. Veele was the daughter of John Holloway. The Veele arms, in the Visitation, are: Quarterly of Six—1 <S» 6,Arg. on a bend sa. 3 calves passant or, Veele; 2, Quarterly or and gu. in the1st quarter a lio
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