Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . TOMB OF SIR THOMAS SMITH, CAMPDEN CHURCH. 54 Transactions for the Year 1901. side of the altar is a canopied tomb, on the slab of which reclines thefigure of Thomas Smith, Lord of the Manor of Campden, who died in1593. Below him are his two wives : (1) Elizabeth Fitzherbert, with fivesons and four daughters, and (2) Katherine Throckmorton, with two sonsand two daughters. The arms of Smyth, sable, a fesse between three saltires or,appear, impaling those of Fitzherbert and also of Throckmorton. At thewest end of the tomb is
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . TOMB OF SIR THOMAS SMITH, CAMPDEN CHURCH. 54 Transactions for the Year 1901. side of the altar is a canopied tomb, on the slab of which reclines thefigure of Thomas Smith, Lord of the Manor of Campden, who died in1593. Below him are his two wives : (1) Elizabeth Fitzherbert, with fivesons and four daughters, and (2) Katherine Throckmorton, with two sonsand two daughters. The arms of Smyth, sable, a fesse between three saltires or,appear, impaling those of Fitzherbert and also of Throckmorton. At thewest end of the tomb is a badge or crest consisting of two twisted head of the effigy rests on a tilting helmet, and the feet rest on a crestsimilar to the above. The armour consists of a peaked cuirass, withpauldrons, brassarts, epaulieres, &c, &c. A double chain is suspended. HICKS AND NOEL TOMBS, CAMPDEN CHURCH. from the neck. The skirt of taces is not divided. The rivets andfastenings of the armour are carefully represented. In the middle of the south chapel, on an altar-tomb, recline the superbalabaster effigies of Sir Baptist Hicks, Viscount Campden and his wifeElizabeth, arrayed in mantles, ruffs, and coronets. He died in 1629, andhis widow erected this monument to his memory. On the south side ofthe chapel are the marble effigies of Sir Edward Noel, Viscount Campden,and Julianna, his wife, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of SirBaptist Hicks. They died respectively in 1642 and 1644. They arerepresented as standing in a recess or tomb, enveloped in shrouds. The t Campden. 55 sculptor was John Marshall. On the east wall are half-length figures ofPenelope Noel, who died in 1633, aged 17, and Anne Noel, who died in1636. An excellent paper on the Manor and Borough of Chipping Campden,by the Rev. S. E. Bartleet, a vice-president of this Society, appea
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