Image ID: 19985

South Aisle Nave, St Edmund's Church, off Holme Lane, Holme Pierrepont, 1900

Courtesy of Nottingham and Notts Photographic Society

off Holme Lane
Holme Pierrepont
England

St Edmund's is a medieval church, altered in 1666, with the chancel inserted 1878-81. The church contains numerous monuments of the Pierrepont family. Its form is gothic, but in the style of the time of Henry VII, with large and numerous windows, and consisting of a nave, side aisles, and a square tower surmounted by a handsome lofty spire. The family vault of the late Dukes of Kingston, and of Earl Manvers, is on the north side of the choir, with a lofty monument over it, supported by Corinthian pillars and ornamented by deaths heads in wreaths, intermixed with fruit and foliage. The inscription informs us that: 'here lyeth the Illustrious Princess Gertrude, Countess of Kingston, daughter of Henry Talbot Esq., son to George, late Earl of Shrewsbury. She was married to the most noble and excellent Earl of Kingston'. A very fine altar tomb to the memory of Sir Henry Pierrepont, Knight, in 1615, is on the south side. He is in armour, and in the attitude of prayer. On the sides of the tomb are a son, four daughters, and an infant in swaddling clothes, and over it an highly ornamented tablet. Here too, is buried 'Young Oldham', considered to be a poet of great merit, and patronised by William, Earl of Kingston, who also wrote the very elegant Latin inscription on his monument.

Organisation:

Rate this image:

KeywordschurchreligiousbuildingtracerywindowsarchedaislenavepewssetswoodenstonemoldingfontsignNottinghamandNottsPhotographicSocietyNottinghamandNottinghamshirePhotographicSociety

Nottinghamshire Archives