engraving in the leading architectural periodical of the day -is daubed over with colour, and the stone walls disfigured with thick coatings of whitewash, perhaps concealing beauties which lie there unsuspected. A stained window in the chancel has been spoken of: this would, of course, involve a renovation of the altar a light iron rail, iustead of the present cumbrous barricade, the floor laid with encaustic tiles, and the clumsy boarding removed from the walls. At the west end, the organ gallery should come down, the organ be placed on the floor, and the blockade over the window removed. The outside of the building also stands much in need of repair. The blue plaster which is stuck here and there over the walls should be taken off, the walls pointed and restored as nearly as possible to their original state. The brick wall surrounding the graveyard should be taken down, and an iron railing substituted. All this would require money-perhaps five hundred pounds; but what is this compared to the restoration of God's House? There are individuals in the town who, we are sure, would subscribe handsomely towards the carrying out of these improvements. And the chord only needs to be struck to elicit the sympathy and co-operation of all, from the highest to the lowest, in effesting this much-to-be-desired object.-. Correrpondent. TYP HUNTINGDON.-All Saints' Church. Now that the pulpit of this fine old Church is removed, there is no obstruction to the view down the middle aisle. This is a great improvement, and we hope it is but the beginning of others still greater: we allude to the entire restoration of the building. At present, the oak roof-which is considered one of the finest in England, and of which there is an sanctior aut diligentior. Ob singularem Humanitatem Hospitalitatem, Beneficentiam apud hanc Provinciam carissimus. Cujus olim liberis et inemptis Suffragiis plus una Vice, in Senatorium Ordinem est cooptatus. In Matrimonio habuit Luciam, Patre Robto Bernard, Baronetto diuturnâ felicitate usus et xv liberis auctus, et in defunctæ loco annam Laur°. Torkington Armo. ante nuptam ex quâ nihil liberorum tulit. Obiit pridie Nonas Jul. 1685 annum agens ætatis 71. Superstitibus uxore Anna et utriusq' Sexus Liberis 15. Among the other monuments is a large one for the family of "Eliz. de Carcassonett, widow of John Francis de Carcassonett, Esq. and formerly the wife of the Honorable Remigius Birmingham, second son to Francis Lord Athunry, in the Kingdom of Ireland." She died in June, 1799, aged eighty-five. "She was daughter of Mr. William Lysons, late of Bristol, merchant, and Anne, his wife; which Anne afterwards married Sir Edward Gardner, Knt." and was buried with him near this spot. The Font consists of an octagonal base, supported by a central column, surrounded by small pillars. On the outside of the Church are various sculptures of rude heads, both human and animal. Nearly opposite to this edifice is a respectable MANSION, now the property and seat of Sir John Arundel. All Saints Church, which stands on the north side of the market-place, appears, from the character of its architecture and ornaments, to have been built in the time of Henry the Seventh. It is an embattled edifice, consisting of a nave, chancel, and aisles, with a small tower at the north-west angle, ornamented with pinnacles. Below the battlements is a continued frieze, charged with a multiplicity of sculptures, representing human and animal heads, flowers, &c. and among them the Tudor rose and the portcullis. The water-spouts are discharged through the mouths of grotesque and monstrous animal figures; some of them with the most strange and whimsical countenances that can well be conceived.* In the east wall of the south porch are the remains of a broken piscina. The * These sort of sculptures are common to almost all the Churches in the southern part of this county. L The nave is divided from the aisles by three pointed arches on each side, rising from clustered columns, and from the chancel by a high pointed arch. The roof is of timber: that of the nave is curiously ornamented with whole-length carved figures, placed at the ends of the principal rafters, and at the rise of the knees. The windows are mostly large, and are divided by mullions into several lights; the tracery of some of them is not inelegant. At the sides and west end are large galleries: the organ is now undergoing a repair. Against the north wall of the chancel is a large monument inscribed to the Fullwoods,' who 'were descended from an ancient family settled soon after the Norman Conquest at Fullwode, (now called Clea Hall,) in the Parish of Tanworth, and county of Warwick; and the first of whom, who came to reside at Huntingdon, married here in 1627: the last, a female, died in 1756. Dr. William Fullwood, who was some time Mayor of Huntingdon, was an eminent physician, and obtained great praise for his benevolent conduct during the Sickness,' or Plague, which made great havock in this town in the time of Charles the Second. The other monuments are not particularly remarkable. Several of the grave-stones in the nave, and other parts, display the indents of brasses, but all the latter are gone: on one very large slab were the figures of a knight and his lady. Many of the Cromwells of Hinchinbrook, &c. from whom descended the Protector Oliver Cromwell, were buried here; yet not any memorials of them are to be found, excepting the respective entries in the Register. Mr. Noble intimates, that they might have been destroyed during the Civil * Four of these were inscribed as follows, in Black Letter. Cotton MS. Hic Jacet Richus Levet alia Oyler de Wisbech, qui obiit Feb. 25°. Ao Dni 1506 Cujus & · - Orate pro animabus Robti Newell quondam Burgensis de Huntington & Agnetis Consortis suæ, qui quidem Robertus obiit 20 die Mens. Febr. Ão. Duï. 1509 Cujus &c. Hic jacet Rogerus Heyns quondam Burgensis villæ Huntington & Elena uxor ejus. Qui quidem Rogerus obiit 25 die mens. Januarii An. Dni 1518, Quoram, &c.-Ego Thomas Beard Sacræ Theologiæ Professor, in Ecclesiâ omnium Sanctorum Huntingtoniæ. Verbi Divini Prædicator olim. Jam sanus sum. Obiit Januarii 8°. An. 1631. p. 354. insert at p.354 a In All Sante Church, Huntingdon, on the Southe pier of the Chancel arch is affixed -monument witte the following Inscription: – To the Memory of her excellent Parents and Dasse Elizabette his wife. Byher last will and destament to be created 1749. |