JULY 2010:
The Friends (Quaker) Meeting House & St Helen, BRANT BROUGHTON
and St Michael, STRAGGLETHORPE
Our
July visits were to three very different churches in Brant Broughton
and Stragglethorpe. The Friends (Quaker) meeting house is
simple but fascinating and we had a marvellous speaker – we could
have stayed here all day! After refreshments we went to St
Helen’s parish church which by contrast has stained glass in all
its windows designed and made by a former rector. There is so much
to see here and again we had an excellent guide. We then went on to
Stragglethorpe – a small church complete with box pews. This was
a busy day and we intend to return next year.
Quaker
Meeting House
St
Helen’s church Brant Broughton
Stragglethorpe
There is an elaborate monument to Richard Earle dated 1697, The lengthy inscription is as follows :
Stay, Reader and observe Deaths partial doom
A spreading Virtue in a narrow Tomb,
A generous Mind mingled with common Dust;
Like Burnishd Steel cover'd and left in Rust.
Dark in the Earth he lies, in whom did Shine
All the Divided Merits of his Line,
The Lustre of his Name seems faded here,
No fairer Star in all that fruitfull Sphere.
In Piety and Parts extremely Bright;
Clear was his Youth, and filled with Crowning light
A morn that promised much Yet saw no Noon
None ever Rose so fair, an Set so soon
All lines of Worth were Centred here in One,
Yet see, he lies in Shades, whose Life had none,
But while the Mother this sad Structure Rears,
A double Dissolution there Appears;
He into Dust dissolves, She into Tears
Richardus Earle Bar.nt Obyt
Decimo Tertio Die Augufti
Anno Dom 1697 Aetatis Suae 24
A spreading Virtue in a narrow Tomb,
A generous Mind mingled with common Dust;
Like Burnishd Steel cover'd and left in Rust.
Dark in the Earth he lies, in whom did Shine
All the Divided Merits of his Line,
The Lustre of his Name seems faded here,
No fairer Star in all that fruitfull Sphere.
In Piety and Parts extremely Bright;
Clear was his Youth, and filled with Crowning light
A morn that promised much Yet saw no Noon
None ever Rose so fair, an Set so soon
All lines of Worth were Centred here in One,
Yet see, he lies in Shades, whose Life had none,
But while the Mother this sad Structure Rears,
A double Dissolution there Appears;
He into Dust dissolves, She into Tears
Richardus Earle Bar.nt Obyt
Decimo Tertio Die Augufti
Anno Dom 1697 Aetatis Suae 24
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