Notes on the Medieval Altars and Chapels in Lincoln Cathedral

Peter B. G. Binnall

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Notes on the Medieval Altars and Chapels in Lincoln Cathedral

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Peter B. G. Binnall

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The identification of medieval altars in cathedrals is a difficult and complicated business and information from original sources is both scanty and contradictory, whilst much of the printed matter, frequently based on the researches of seventeenth and eighteenth-century antiquaries, is far from accurate.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , March 1962 , pp. 68 - 80

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^{page 68 note 1} Fowler, J. T., Rites of Durham (Surtees Soc, vol. 107, 1903)Google Scholar.

^{page 68 note 2} Proctor and Wordsworth, Breviarum ad Usum Sarum (1882).

^{page 68 note 3} Information kindly transmitted by the Very Rev. C. C. Woodforde, Dean of Wells.

^{page 68 note 4} Bishop, H. E. and Prideaux, E. K., The Building of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter in Exeter (Exeter, 1922)Google Scholar.

^{page 68 note 5} Inventories of Church Goods (Surtees Soc, vol. 97, 1897).

^{page 68 note 6} Information from Miss P. E. Morgan, who is engaged on a study of the Hereford material.

^{page 69 note 1} Cath. Stat. 480.

^{page 70 note 1} L.D.M. 1895, 73; Cath. Stat. cclxviii; M.S. 244, 254.

^{page 70 note 2} L.D.M. 1913, 38.

^{page 71 note 1} For a summary of the evidence see J. W. F. Hill, Medieval Lincoln, 376; cf. M.S. 244–5.

^{page 71 note 2} Cath. Slat, cclxii ff.

^{page 71 note 3} Cath. Stat. lxxi, note; cf. A.S.R. 1858, 46.

^{page 71 note 4} L.D.M. 1896, 142 and refs. there given; M.S. 246–7.

^{page 71 note 5} Archaeologia, liii. 15.

^{page 71 note 6} Cath. Stat. cclxii.

^{page 71 note 7} L.D.M. 1895, 118; cf. Maddison, 41; M.S. 248–9.

^{page 71 note 8} A.S.R. 1925, 293.

^{page 71 note 9} Ibid. 273.

^{page 71 note 10} M.S. 248.

^{page 71 note 11} L.R.S., vol. 11, p. 317.

^{page 71 note 12} L.R.S., vol. 20, pp. xxxvi, 199.

^{page 71 note 13} L.R.S., vol. 20, pp. xxxvi, 91.

^{page 71 note 14} L.D.M. 1894, 133.

^{page 72 note 1} L.R.S., vol. 28, pp. 303 ff.; Cath. Stat. cclxii.

^{page 72 note 2} L.D.M. loc. cit.

^{page 73 note 3} Mon. Insc. 43.

^{page 73 note 4} Ibid.

^{page 73 note 5} L.R.S., vol. 29, p. 403; cf. Cath. Stat. Ixx, note.

^{page 73 note 6} L.D.M. loc. cit.; Cath. Stat. cclxvi, note.

^{page 73 note 7} Cler. Subs. 82.

^{page 73 note 8} A.S.R. 1925, 293, and L.R.S., vol. 53, p. 124.

^{page 73 note 9} L.R.S., vol. 53, loc. cit.

^{page 73 note 10} Maddison, 81.

^{page 73 note 11} Ibid. 85.

^{page 73 note 12} Ibid. 93.

^{page 73 note 13} L.R.S., vol. 53, p. 128.

^{page 73 note 14} Cath. Stat. cclxiii.

^{page 73 note 15} Cath. Stat. 400.

^{page 73 note 16} Srawley.

^{page 73 note 17} L.R.S., vol. 32, pp. 86–87.

^{page 73 note 18} L.D.M. 1894, 182.

^{page 73 note 19} Mon. Insc. 43.

^{page 73 note 20} Cath. Stat. cclxii.

^{page 73 note 21} Ibid, cclxviii.

^{page 73 note 22} L.D.M. 1894, 133; Cath. Stat. cclxviii.

^{page 73 note 1} L.R.S., vol. 53, p. 125.

^{page 73 note 2} Maddison, Lines. Wills, i. 45.

^{page 73 note 3} Cath. Stat. Ixxi, note; cf. M.S. 239–40.

^{page 73 note 4} Cath. Stat. cclxviii.

^{page 73 note 5} Proc. Soc. Antiquaries, 2nd ser., vol. xvii, pp. 97 ff.

^{page 73 note 6} G. H. Cook, Mediaeval Chantries, 114 and plan on p. 110.

^{page 73 note 7} L.D.M. 1895, 38–39; cf. Cath. Stat. lxx, note.

^{page 73 note 8} A.S.R. 1922, 219–20.

^{page 73 note 9} Cath. Stat. cclxiv.

^{page 73 note 10} This was Srawley's view as given in his MS. notes. See also L.D.M. 1912, 188.

^{page 73 note 11} Venables, E., ‘The Shrine and Head of St. Hugh’, A.S.R. 1892Google Scholar.

^{page 73 note 12} Architectural Journal, vol. xviii, 3rd series, 1911, p. 87 (‘Notes on the Architectural History of Lincoln Minster from 1192–1255’, by Francis Bond and William Watkins). This interesting and important article evoked a reply from John Bilson and a number of valuable notes from other contributors, all of which appear in the same volume and are indispensable for the interpretation of the many problems in the architectural chronology of the cathedral.

^{page 73 note 13} See above, n. 7. See also Thurston, H., The Place of St. Hugh's Burial (St. Hugh's Day at Lincoln, 1900)Google Scholar; Woolley, St. Hugh of Lincoln (1927); Clayton, St. Hugh of Lincoln (1931).

^{page 74 note 1} L.D.M. 1894, 182–3. I l is described architecturally by G. H. Cook (op. cit. 112).

^{page 74 note 2} A.S.R. 1922, 227.

^{page 74 note 3} Cf. Cath. Stat. cclxvi.

^{page 74 note 4} A.S.R. 1922, 227–8.

^{page 74 note 5} L.D.M. 1894, 134.

^{page 74 note 6} Ibid. 1895, 91–92; M.S. 223–4.

^{page 74 note 7} A.S.R. 1922, 207–17. For Stretton and Woolf see pp. 224–6.

^{page 74 note 8} Cath. Stat. cclxiii; cf. pp. cclvi–cclviii, cclxv.

^{page 74 note 9} L.R.S., vol. 53.

^{page 74 note 10} Maddison, Vicars Choral, 31–32; L.D.M. 1895, 74; Mon. Insc. 43.

^{page 74 note 11} Srawley. He cites the following: Thurston, Life of St. Hugh, appendix; L.D.M. 1900, 149, 190 ff.; 1901, 47, 171 ff.

^{page 74 note 12} L.D.M. 1895, 74; Cath. Stat. index; cf. A.S.R. 1922, 229 ff., 237–9; L.R.S., vol. 28, pp. 112–13, 117.

^{page 75 note 1} L.D.M. 1895, 157; M.S. 226–7.

^{page 75 note 2} Cath. Stat. cclxii.

^{page 75 note 3} L.R.S., vol. 32, pp. 27–29.

^{page 75 note 4} Cath. Stat. cclxvii, cclviii.

^{page 75 note 6} L.R.S., vol. 1, p. 60.

^{page 75 note 6} Ibid. 62. Holies gives the date of Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam's death as 1474, and confuses two generations. The founder of the chantry married Margaret Dymoke and their son, Thomas (died 1494), married Margaret Harrington (see Maddi-son, Lines. Pedigrees, 357).

^{page 75 note 7} 4.S.R. 1922, 239.

^{page 75 note 8} Cath. Stat. 491 and note.

^{page 75 note 9} J.S.R. 1922, 223–4.

^{page 75 note 10} L.R.S., vol. 53, p. 66.

^{page 75 note 11} Ibid. 118. His will was proved in that year (Lincoln Consistory, ii. 145).

^{page 75 note 12} Ibid. 125.

^{page 75 note 13} L.R.S., vol. 53, p. 123.

^{page 75 note 14} Archaeologia, liii. 15.

^{page 75 note 15} G. H. Cook, Mediaeval Chantries, 112; M.S. 227.

^{page 75 note 16} Cath. Stat. cclxviii, with which Hardy's Le Neve agrees.

^{page 75 note 17} Venables, and Perry, , Dioc. Hist. Lincoln, 1897, 200Google Scholar. (D.N.B. gives 1494.)

^{page 75 note 18} L.R.S., vol. 53, p. 57.

^{page 76 note 1} L.D.M. 1895, 73; 1913, 37.

^{page 76 note 2} Mon. Insc. 9 (no. 33); M.S. 217.

^{page 76 note 3} A.S.R. 1925, 293.

^{page 76 note 4} L.R.S., vol. 23, p. 79.

^{page 76 note 5} Foster, Cal. Line. Wills, i. 251.

^{page 76 note 6} G. H. Cook, op. cit. 112–13.

^{page 76 note 7} M.S. 228.

^{page 76 note 8} M.S. 229, 235.

^{page 76 note 9} L.D.M. 1913, 5.

^{page 76 note 10} Story ofLincoln Minster, 97.

^{page 76 note 11} Cath. Stat. lxx.

^{page 76 note 12} Murray's Guide to Lines. 45.

^{page 76 note 13} J. H. Srawley, The Book of John de Schalby (Lincoln Minster Pamphlets, No. 2).

^{page 76 note 14} L.R.S., vol. 13, p. xlx; vol. 48, p. xxxii.

^{page 76 note 15} L.D.M. 1896, 8.

^{page 77 note 1} Cath. Slat. 898, but in L.R.S., vol. 5, p. 8, note, the date is given as 1348.

^{page 77 note 2} A.S.R. 1923/4, 87.

^{page 77 note 3} Archaeologia, liii, 14.

^{page 77 note 4} L.R.S., vol. 29, p. 403; Cath. Stat. lxx, note, cclxviii.

^{page 77 note 5} L.D.M. 1894, 133, and 1896, 115; Ronan, M. V., St. Anne, Her Cult and Her Shrines, 1927, 78Google Scholar; but Bradshaw and Wordsworth found no reference to a chapel of St. Edward (Cath. Stat. cclxix).

^{page 77 note 6} L.D.M. as above; Cath. Stat. cclxiv (wrongly indexed as cclxiii).

^{page 77 note 7} Cath. Stat. lxii, note; Hill, Medieval Lincoln, 113.

^{page 77 note 8} M.S. 239.

^{page 77 note 9} A.S.R. 1922, 236–7.

^{page 77 note 10} M.S. 237.

^{page 77 note 11} L.D.M. 1895, 74; cf. L.D.M. 1896, 116, and M.S. 236.

^{page 77 note 12} Cath. Stat. cclxii (wrongly indexed as cclxiii), cclxvi; L.R.S., vol. 13, p. 12.

^{page 78 note 1} Cath. Stat. 440. The chantry must have been founded in the late thirteenth century (see Hill, Medieval Lincoln, 171).

^{page 78 note 2} L.R.S., vol. 12, p. 143, note.

^{page 78 note 3} M.S. 237.

^{page 78 note 4} L.D.M. 1897, 71; Cath. Stat. lxx, note.

^{page 78 note 5} 4.S.R. 1922,237.

^{page 78 note 6} Cath. Stat. in, 440.

^{page 78 note 7} Ibid, cclxiii, cclxvi; M.S. 255.

^{page 78 note 8} Hill, Medieval Lincoln, 395.

^{page 78 note 9} G. H. Cook, op. cit. 114.

^{page 78 note 10} Cath. Stat. lxxi, note.

^{page 78 note 11} Cath. Stat. cclxix (from a Chapter Act of that date). Macworth died in 1451 (M.S. 240). The altar was definitely in the nave (L.R.S., vol. 13, p. 78).

^{page 78 note 12} Cath. Stat. cclxv.

^{page 78 note 13} Ibid, cclxvi. Crosby was treasurer and died 26th March 1477 (M.S. 241).

^{page 78 note 14} L.D.M. 1913, 38.

^{page 78 note 15} Jeans, Murray's Guide to Lines. 45.

^{page 78 note 16} L.D.M. 1895, 37; ibid. 1896, 141 (for aisle in col. 2, line 10, read transept—an obvious slip).

^{page 78 note 17} Cath. Stat. lxxi–lxxii, note.

^{page 78 note 18} Ibid, cclxvi–cclxvii. (For Walmesford's foundation see C.P.R. 1345–8, 23, and L.R.S., vol. 5, pp. 8–9, note.)

^{page 78 note 19} L.R.S., vol. 28, pp. 105–6.

^{page 79 note 1} Ibid. 108.

^{page 79 note 2} L.D.M. 1896, 141; 1897, 30; M.S. 241–4.

^{page 79 note 3} L.D.M. 1895, 74; M.S. loc. cit.

^{page 79 note 4} Cath. Stat. cclxvi.

^{page 79 note 5} Dudding, R. C., The First Churchwardens' Book of Louth, 1941, 11Google Scholar.

^{page 79 note 6} L.R.S., vol. 29, pp. 376–7.

^{page 79 note 7} Archaeologia, liii. 14.

^{page 79 note 8} L.R.S., vol. 12, p. 93. Bradshaw and Words-worth were uncertain whether or not there was actually an altar (Cath. Stat. lxxii, note), but this seems clearly to have been the case.

^{page 79 note 9} Maddison, 45.

^{page 79 note 10} L.R.S., vol. 12, p. 210.

^{page 79 note 11} Ibid.

^{page 79 note 12} See St. Andrew's chapel, above.

^{page 79 note 13} Wordsworth suggested a ‘crucifix on the south west pier of the nave’ (M.S. 241).

^{page 79 note 14} M.S. 244.

^{page 79 note 15} Maddison, 41.

^{page 79 note 16} Cath. Stat. 625.

^{page 79 note 17} Srawley.

^{page 80 note 1} L.R.S., vol. 12, pp. 9, 74.

^{page 80 note 2} Cath. Stat. lxv–lxvi.

^{page 80 note 3} Maddison, Lines. Wills, i, 44.

^{page 80 note 4} A.S.R. 1922, 226; Cath. Stat. ccxlvi.

^{page 80 note 5} e.g. in Chantry certificates of 1548 and in 1437 (Cath. Stat. 404).

^{page 80 note 6} L.D.M. 1895, 93.

^{page 80 note 7} Ibid.

^{page 80 note 8} Srawley was convinced that this was the case; cf. M.S. 226. (Wordsworth wondered whether it was, in fact, the High Altar, M.S. 217.)

^{page 80 note 9} 4.S.R. 1922, 234–6. He died c. 1239.

^{page 80 note 10} Ibid. 237–9.

^{page 80 note 11} L.R.S., vol. 53, s.v. Flower.

^{page 80 note 12} Cath. Stat. lxxi, note; M.S. 252.

^{page 80 note 13} F. Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications, i, 114.

^{page 80 note 14} Hill, Medieval Lincoln, 171.

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