Charles Tiplady Pratt

“ It is entered from the South Aisle through a dark oak screen, the woodwork of which is solid to the height of about six feet with wide folding doors in the centre, through which the choir, who use this Aisle as their vestry, enter the Church for their places in the Chancel. The screen is entirely new and is of the local character of fifteenth century woodwork, like the Chancel screen. On the south side of the Aisle stand the several oak presses for the clergy and choir surplices with an oak chest, all alike in character, the clergy vestry being separated by a curtain. ”

“ THE CHURCHYARD originally extended probably as far south as the present one, but went scarcely any farther west than the Tower or farther east than the present Chancel. A considerable addition was made to the west, as far as the present row of elms, in 1813, and a tradition says that the first buriul in that addition was George Batchelor, a coachman at Cannon Hall, whose widow came from Barnsley to her husband's burial in the carriage which brought Mr. John Stanhope home on parole as a French prisoner. ”

“ In the upper part of each division made by the gold decorated ribs there is a shield with the sacred monogram "I H S," and in the lower part the words "Laus Deo" are repeated in alternate divisions, with the word "Alleluia" under each "Deo." The wall-piece of each tie-beam terminates with a shield hearing a gold "I H S," and there are shields at equal distances between them on the wall plate. The arrangement of the colouring of the Roofs throughout the Church is on a general plan of counterchange: the Nave roof is green and gold, the Chancel is red and gold ”

“ The first organ used in England is said to have been built underthe directions of Aldhelm, one of the royal family of Wessex, Abbot of Malmsbury and Bishop of Sherborne, in the eighth century, whose life was written by King Alfred. Aldhelm describes it as "a "mighty instrument with innumerable tones blown with bellows, and enclosed in a gilded case."
The Roof of this Aisle is very elaborately decorated: it is divided into three bays by two tie-beams which have on each side gold cresting standing upon them, as upon the wall-beams at each end. ”

“ Samuel Swift, a native of Cawthoine, whose brother has had the entire superintendence of the Restoration, as their father had of the building of the Church at Hoyland-Swaine. In the tracery of the North Porch Windows are the angel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary. Under the East Window of the North Chancel Aisle is built into the wall the head of a Cross of the eleventh or early part of the twelfth century. ”

“ No less than 36 burials, nearly all given as daughters and sonnes, show the exceptional mortality this year among the young: nearly every family name in the Parish appears. 28 births, with the word "baptized" becoming more and more frequent, as events occurring in Church and State might lead us to expect. ”

“ Aisle " is from "ala,' the Latin for a wing, through the French aile; "Chancel," from the Latin " cancelli," the screen or latticework by which as early as the fourth century the East end of the Church was separated from the Nave or Body; "Chapel," flora the Kings of France having always cairied St Martin's cope (Latin, cappa) into the field with them when engaged in war, keeping it as a sacred relic in a tent, where mass was said, the place hence being called copella, the chapel ”

“ At the east end of the Church there is a headstone to a William Atkinson, the work of his son Thomas Witlam Atkinson who was born at Cawthorne March 6, 1796, in a house adjoining the old Wesleyan Chapel This William Atkinson came from Northumberland, and was head mason at Cannon Hall he married an Elizabeth Bates, of Cawthorne, in 1792, by whom he had two children. After her death in 1795, he married, August, 1798, a Martha Witlam, housemaid at Cannon Hall, and Thomas Witlam was their eldestt son. "Thomas, son of William and Martha Atkinson, mason, baptised March 25, 1799. ”

“ The oak seats which were in the Nave since 1864 are now made use of in the North and South Aisles : they replaced the former pews of 1811. By a deed dated April 8, 1811, there was an "Agreement "among the Proprietors of Pews, seats, and sittings for new pewing "the Church, and making further alterations : " these alterations will be more conveniently spoken of after the description of the Church in its present state.
The oak-work throughout is stained to a dark tint, which gives a quiet, rich tone of colour to the interior. ”

“ The Church consists of a Tower and Nave with North and South Aisles and a Chancel with aisles, the South Aisle of the Nave having laeen lengthened and entirely rebuilt during the recent Restoration the Chancel has been considerably lengthened, and a new South Chancel Aisle been added, whilst new Roofs have been erected throughout the entire fabric.
The whole of the new work is in the style of the Fourteenth century. The Restoration and Enlargement with everything connected with the work inside the Church and out have been from the plans and designs of Messrs. ”

“ THE NAVE The total length of the Church from the West door of the Tower to the East wall of the Chancel is 99 feet, the Nave being 43 feet 6 inches by 20 feet 6 inches. In place of the former whitewashed plaster flat ceiling, with a West end Gallery extending to the first of page 70 the three Nave piers, there is now a lofty waggon-headed roof with two tie-beams. The Roof is richly decorated throughout with green and gold. ”

“ The highest division of the tracery contains the following well-known emblem of the Church's faith in the Holy Trinity and Unity:
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The centre of the three lights has our Lord's Crucifixion, with (as we look eastward) St. Mary on the right and St. John on the left in the other lights. Below the Crucifixion is a smaller representation ef the Resurrection below St. Mary by the Cross is a St. Mary of the Annunciation, with the angel Gabriel in the other light, below St. John. ”

“ Some very small fragments of the original coloured glass of this window were found in the tracery during the Restoration. There are two lancet windows in the north wall : the one nearer the east has a figure representing Faith ("Fides") overcoming the world, with the inscription below, "In memory of Mary only child of John Roddam and Lilla Spencer Stanhope who died at Florence Febr. 23, 1867, and was buried in that city, aged 7" The window is Mr. Roddam Stanhope's own design. ”

“ This son began life at ten as a masons labourer with his father, atiending school in winter, and receiving lessons in writing and drawing from his elder half-brother. In 1822, he was working as a mason on St George's Church, Barnsley, walking daily from his home. The headstone to his mother in our Churchyard has been called his " first great work." The Rev. C. S. Stanhope was so pleased with one of his designs that he persuaded him to go to Manchester. He went there, and afterwards to London, and set up as an architect There are at Cannon Hall several pictures of the Church of St. ”

“ Atkinson after the model of the tombs of the early Tudor reigns " The word "altar-tomb" historically reminds us of the early Christians' persecutions, when the Catacombs of Rome were the only places where they could hold their religious services with comparative safety, and where the stone altar-tombs of those who suffered martyrdom offered the most convenient and fitting altars for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist
On the Walls of the Chapel are many memorial tablets. They record the memory of Hugh, son of John and Ann Spencer, 1694, 13 years ”

“ John, xix., 19 ) Below the angel Gabriel in the Annunciation are the words, ' Missus est angelus Gabriel a Deo ad Virginem "The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a Virgin," and the angel carries a scroll 'vith the legend, "Ave Maria, plena gratiae, Dominus tecum" . "Hail, Mary, highly favoured, (Revised Version, margin, "'endued with grace,') the Lord is with thee." ”

“ Polly was the terror of poachers, with whom she had frequent encounters, and would give and take hard knocks, but generally she succeeded in capturing her opponents and making them answer for their misdeeds at Petty Sessions. A Norfolk game-preserver once offered Polly a shilling a-piece for a hundred pheasant page 103 eggs. ”

“ Among the Memorial Stories in the Churchyard there is none that goes back beyond the early part of the seventeenth century. The oldest of all is one of the Shirt family:
"Hic jacet William Shyrte de Cawthorne Lanes qui obiit nono die Junii 1630, natus annis sexaginta octo vicesimo nono die Januani ultimo preterito." "Hic jacet Johannes Shirte junior de Cawthorne-lanes qui obiit duodecimo die Febr. ”

“ It then goes on to appoint a Committee consisting of the Vicar, the Church-wardens, Walter Spencer Stanhope, Thomas West, Samuel Thorp of Banks Hall, Charles Bowns of Darley Hall, John Howson of Cannon Hall, George Keir of Barnsley, John Beatson and Thomas Eyre of Cawthorne: these are to carry out the alterations, to assess the amount the several contributors are to pay, and to appoint a Committee to award the several pews or sittings, the said award to he psoclaimed in Church on the Sunday after it is made. ”

“ Stanhope's intimate friend the Rev. J. B. Cross, Vicar of Appleby (Lincs.) , and Canon of Lincoln Cathedral. On the following two evenings the preachers were the Revs. C. S. Stanhope, Vicar of Crowton, elder son of the late Vicar of Cawthorne, and the Rev. J. Ingham Brooke, Rector of Thornhill.
The day of the Re-opening was a beautiful calm sunny winter's day. At the public Luncheon held in the Boys' School, at which Mr. Stanhope was only present at the conclusion, he specially referred to "the Church now restored being always open; it is free to all ”

“ Ez. xxxvii, 24.
"DANIEL." "Potestas Ejus potestas oetrna." "Whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom." Dan. vii, 27.
The English is given in each case as in our Authorsed Version, and not as a translation of the Latin Vulgate.
The other of these three windows was filled with stained glass (by Wailes of Newcastle) in 1867, as a memorial of the people of Cawthorne to Miss Louisa Stanhope, who truly followed in her mother Lady Elizabeth's footsteps, in going about "doing good." The glass not being in harmony with the present Church, it has been replaced by a new window with St. ”

“ Joseph Micklethwaite marries Sarah Clayton of Clayton, John Shirt a Margaret Couldwell of Silkston, William Shirt Mary Lindley, William Slacke Mary Shirt, John Shirt Ann Shaw, Edward Brighouse of Huthersfeld Ann Shirt - no less than five marriages of Shirts in one year.
1659. 20 births: Elizabeth daughter of John Shirt is the only one entered as also "baptised." 19 burials : Shirt, Lindley, Hewite, Scorer, Rich: Brodley, Minister. 5 or 6 marriages, one in which both are of the Parish of Woolley: a Mosley and a Burgon, of Cawthorne. ”

“ There are the following Marble Tablets in the West Wall : to Elizabeth Bisby wife of William Thorp of Hill Top in Cawthorne gent., 1764, 74 years; W. Bisby his son; and Ann Scott of Barnsley her daughter, 1779, and Elizabeth Scott her granddaughter, 1786 ("erected by Jer. and Wm. Scott of London, sons of the above Ann Scott ".) . One in memory of John Beatson, gent., of Cinderhill, 1824, 68 years ; Juliet Frances Parkinson, died June 11th, 1852, aged 49; Mary Ann Hodgson, 1832, 14 years; Louisa, wife of Rev. Benj. Eamonson, A.M., Minister of this Parish, 1813, in her 27th year. ”

“ Bridget Bosseville of Gunthwaite in ye Parish of Penistone marryd by me Thomas Cockshutt at their own Chappell at Midhop by virtue of licence, 1725": Mr. Cockshutt signs the page as "Vicar of Peniston and Minister of Cawthorne."
Mr. Willm. Shuttleworth of Horrocksford in the County Palatine of Lancaster and Mrs. Christiana Spencer of Cannon Hall: Dec. 2: 1748." ”

“ Collected in the Parish Church of "Cawthorn for Thomas Carr, a poor scholler, who was for going up "to Camebridge and born in ye Parish of Eccklesfield, the sume of 6s. 6d."
In 1688 there is the following entry . " Received then of the Minister and Churchwardens of Cawthorn the som of thre pound thirteen shillings and elevenpens collected for the Parish of Cawthorn upon a Breafe bearing date the 31st day of January 1687-8, and granted to the distressed Protestants of France. ”

“ Walter Stanhope, of Leeds, merchant, and Mrs Ann Spencer of Cannon Hall, Jan.26, 1748-9."
"Mr. John Raddyffe, Clerk, and Mrs. Mary Green, 1753"; "John "Greame Esq. of Bridlington and Alicia Maria Spencer of this Parish, 1756."
An entry in 1726 is the burial of Ann Robucke, "an antient unmarryd woman." Mrs, Dorothy Staniforth is described (1726) as "the Rev. Mr. Shirt's daughter." A husband and wife are both buried the same day, John Bolton and Elizabeth (1726) ; some few are entered as "poor strangers," and a William Taylor (1730) as "basket maker." The Rev. Thos. Cockshutt, in 1739; Mr. ”