The few portions of the original architecture which have escaped the silent ravages of years, and the hands of the innovator, bespeak the building of no higher antiquity than the period of Henry the seventh. The aisle on the north side of the chancel is ornamented with embattlements, on which quatrefoils and blank shields are sculptured. It was probably used as a chantry, one of the windows of the aisle having formerly contained an inscription justifying such a supposition. [29b] This aisle does not extend the whole length of the chancel, and in the space so left, the remains of an oratory and confessional are still visible: this space formerly appropriated as a depository for coals to distribute among the poor, is now occupied by a building to contain the fire engines; a corresponding part of the south aisle being used as a vestry.
The interior of the church is remarkably neat and well pewed. A gallery at the west end of the nave contains an organ which was purchased by subscription in 1810. Galleries are also erected in each aisle of the nave.
In the wall of the north aisle is a stone, containing the figure in brass of Sir Lionel Dymoke, in armour, kneeling on a cushion, and holding in his hand a label on which is written,
“Sc’ta trinitas unus deus miserere nob.”
On each side of him are two shields containing arms, at one of the lower corners are the figures of his two sons, and at the other those of his three daughters, and under him this inscription:
“In honore sc’te et individue trinitatis Orate p’ a’ia Leonis Dymoke milit’ q’ obijt xvij die me’se augusti aº D’ni mº cccc xix cuj’ a’ie p’piciet’ de’ Amen.”
The shields contain these arms:—1. Sable, two lions passant in pale, ducally crowned or, Dymoke, empaling Barry of six ermine and gules, three crescents sable, Waterton; a crescent for difference. 2. Dymoke, empaling Vairè, on a fess gules frettè or, Marmyon, in chief, Ermine, five fusils in fess, Hebden; a crescent for difference. 3. Argent, a sword erect azure, hilt and pomel gules. [30a] 4. Dymoke, empaling Quarterly gules and argent, a cross engrailed counterchanged, Haydon; a crescent for difference.
On the floor beneath this monument is a brass, on which is the following inscription nearly obliterated:
“Leonis fossa nunc haec Dymoke capit ossa
Miles erat Regis cui parce Deus prece matris
Es testis Christe quod non jacet hic lapis iste
Corpus ut ornetur sed spiritus ut memoretur
Hinc tu qui transis senex medius puer an sis
Pro me funde preces quia sic mihi fit venie spes.” [30b]
