The church of StBartholomew the Great, West SmithfieldIts foundation, present condition, and funeral monuments . Armig : de Painsford in comitatu Devonise et tristissimse Matris Bridgettao, Johannis Fownes nuper de Whilley Armig : in eodem agro sororis Ex utraq familia illustri Proles non Ignobilis Jam juxta Eeliquias Avunculi sui Thomaoo Fownes de hac Parochia quondam Ar : Cui sanguine fuit Agnatus Hie vicino etiam cinere quiescit do Obijt 2 die Julij Salutia ) 1685 ^AnnoiEtatis suse) 19° On the north side, after two more bays with cir-cular piers, having square bases, and cushionedcapitals,


The church of StBartholomew the Great, West SmithfieldIts foundation, present condition, and funeral monuments . Armig : de Painsford in comitatu Devonise et tristissimse Matris Bridgettao, Johannis Fownes nuper de Whilley Armig : in eodem agro sororis Ex utraq familia illustri Proles non Ignobilis Jam juxta Eeliquias Avunculi sui Thomaoo Fownes de hac Parochia quondam Ar : Cui sanguine fuit Agnatus Hie vicino etiam cinere quiescit do Obijt 2 die Julij Salutia ) 1685 ^AnnoiEtatis suse) 19° On the north side, after two more bays with cir-cular piers, having square bases, and cushionedcapitals, two long steps cross the church, abovewhich are the communion rails, and within themin the last bay before that which began theoriginal apse is the tomb of the founder. Upon it lies his effigy, and over it is a vaultedcanopy with tabernacle work of the fifteenth cen-tury. There are some panels of the same date onthe base, and the present inscription was perhapsre-cut when these were placed in position, butthe effigy is probably of Raheres , about twenty years ago, the tomb was 40 THE CHURCH OF. South Side( With Prior Boltons I ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT. 41


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