A collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc., in the Church of St. Nicholas, Newcastle on Tyne, and chapelries of Gosforth & Cramlington, Northumberland. To which is prefixed a historical account of the Church of St. Nicholas (1820)
Richardson, Moses Aaron, 1793-1871 · Newcastle : Printed by E. Walker · leaf 38
£>tone jfigure* SOUTH SIDE OF THE NAVE. we HE above engraving is a repre-sentation of the effigies of a man,in stone, at full length, with hislegs across, and his dog at hisfeet, having a shield of arms anda sword, which formerly lay ina niche in the wall under thewindow of St Marys Porch. This,… … who took upon them the cross, and were marked with thebadge of the cross, for sacred warfare, in recovering theHoly Land from the Turks. He is supposed to have beenone of the family of the Scroopes. Brand, in his history of Newcastle, says, Some havesupposed this to have been the effigies of the…
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