The Churches of Coventry - A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Frederick W. Woodhouse
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pennyworth nor penny breadth of brass upon all the tombs, of all the
inscriptions, which had been many and costly. The last monument that need be mentioned is upon the wall over "Wade's tomb." Twenty-six verses of eulogy follow these opening lines: An Elegicall epitaph, made upon the death of that mirror of women Ann Newdigate; Lady Skeffington, wife of that true moaneing turtle Sir Richard Skeffington, Kt., and consecrated lo her eternal memorie by the unfeigned lover of her vertues, Willm. Buistrode, Knight. (She died in 1637, aged 29). The present organ was built by Henry Willis and erected in 1887. It is a four-manual and pedal instrument and has fifty-three stops. The old organ on which Handel played more than once, stood on a raised platform at the west end. It was the work of Thomas Swarbrick of Warwick, a German by birth, in 1733. He also built those of Trinity Church, St. Mary, Warwick, Lichfield, St. Saviour Southwark, Stratford-on-Avon, and Amsterdam. The best of the ancient glass now remaining has been collected into two windows, one on either side of the apse. Much was brought from the clearstory where six windows on the south and all save one on the north side still have panels made up of a mosaic of fragments with portions here and there of which the subject is intelligible. From what remains in the tracery we may gather that there was a row of eight angel figures filling the spaces immediately over the lights. Some of these or similar ones, are now in the apse. They are represented as covered with feathers and standing on wheels and each |
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