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Holy Trinity Church (Morton Chapel), Bosbury
The Morton Chapel is a former Chantry Chapel, endowed by Sir Rowland MORTON after the death of his wife in 1528. It has a fine fan-vaulted ceiling and Perpendicular window looking out onto the south side of the Churchyard. Pevsner calls the fan-vaulting “plain”, but I think it's spectacular, in this small country village. One of the pendants of the fan vaulting, seen here just to the left of centre of the archway, is carved with a ‘rebus’ of the Morton family name - a letter ‘M’ engraved on a ‘tun’, or barrel - Mor-ton (see below). Apparently Cardinal John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury (1482-1500) used the same motif in Canterbury Cathedral, and Thomas Morton (Sir Rowland's brother) continued the theme of fan-vaulting in Stanbury Chapel in the Cathedral at Hereford. It is believed the brothers were kinsmen of Archbishop Morton - nothing like keeping the designs in the family, eh? On the wall underneath the window is a pretty framed tapestry of ‘The Last Supper’.
(Enlargement of the Morton “Rebus”) (Commentary provided by Rosemary Lockie) |
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