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st. Nicholas' chapel.
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seen here, almost entire, at the time of MackerelPs writing his book ; and this W.
de Bittering was several times mayor in the reign of Edward III. the last time that
his name occurs being in 1365. The figures of a lion and an eagle upon the summit
of the south porch are thought to be the armorial supporters of Edward III. and
there was very lately in the centre of the west window, a figure greatly resembling
the usual portraits of that monarch, with three crowns upon his sceptre. The
ornaments which surmount the two canopied niches in the buttresses on each side of
the western door, also appear very like the crest of the same king, as it is repre-
sented on his first gold coin, the quarter florin.*
Nothing remarkable occurs in the subsequent history of this chapel, if we
except the repeated efforts to make it independent of the mother church ; the last
of which is said to have been in 1609. Pope Urban's bull for the authorizing of
baptisms here, appears to have been soon afterwards recalled; but a new font for
that purpose was granted by Samuel Harsnet, Bishop of Norwich, in the year 1627,
as the inscription upon it testifies.
The spire, which had been 170 feet in height, was blown down September 8,
1741, and materially injured the adjacent part of the roof. The whole chapel was
* new glazed, and otherwise completely repaired, in the year 1805.
END OF THE ACCOUNT OF ST. NICHOLAS* CHAPEL.
Cije Cjjapel of our ilaop on tfjt Jlotmt, or l&eti JHount
lynn, norfolk.
by the rev. edward edwards, f. s. a.
Among the numerous monuments of the architectural skill and religious zeal of our
ancestors, few, equally deserving of notice, have been so generally overlooked as
this elegant and very singular little building. To those who have only viewed it
externally, the former epithet may, perhaps, appear inappropriate; but such as possess
* Folke's Tables, page 121.
k. vol. iii.
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seen here, almost entire, at the time of MackerelPs writing his book ; and this W.
de Bittering was several times mayor in the reign of Edward III. the last time that
his name occurs being in 1365. The figures of a lion and an eagle upon the summit
of the south porch are thought to be the armorial supporters of Edward III. and
there was very lately in the centre of the west window, a figure greatly resembling
the usual portraits of that monarch, with three crowns upon his sceptre. The
ornaments which surmount the two canopied niches in the buttresses on each side of
the western door, also appear very like the crest of the same king, as it is repre-
sented on his first gold coin, the quarter florin.*
Nothing remarkable occurs in the subsequent history of this chapel, if we
except the repeated efforts to make it independent of the mother church ; the last
of which is said to have been in 1609. Pope Urban's bull for the authorizing of
baptisms here, appears to have been soon afterwards recalled; but a new font for
that purpose was granted by Samuel Harsnet, Bishop of Norwich, in the year 1627,
as the inscription upon it testifies.
The spire, which had been 170 feet in height, was blown down September 8,
1741, and materially injured the adjacent part of the roof. The whole chapel was
* new glazed, and otherwise completely repaired, in the year 1805.
END OF THE ACCOUNT OF ST. NICHOLAS* CHAPEL.
Cije Cjjapel of our ilaop on tfjt Jlotmt, or l&eti JHount
lynn, norfolk.
by the rev. edward edwards, f. s. a.
Among the numerous monuments of the architectural skill and religious zeal of our
ancestors, few, equally deserving of notice, have been so generally overlooked as
this elegant and very singular little building. To those who have only viewed it
externally, the former epithet may, perhaps, appear inappropriate; but such as possess
* Folke's Tables, page 121.
k. vol. iii.