English: Holy Trinity Church, Stow Bardolph, Norfolk - stained glass in east window of Hare Chapel. Arms of Michael Hare, the son of Sir w:Nicholas Hare (d.1557), Master of the Rolls.

Heraldry

Quarterly of 4 impaling quarterly of 6, within a strapwork escutcheon; for heraldry in the Hare Chapel see: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 2 (1889), pp.192-199 [1]

Quarterly of 4:

• 1&4: Gules, two bars or a chief indented of the last (Hare)
• 2&3: Gyronny of twelve or and azure (Bassingbourne). Sir w:Nicholas Hare (c.1484-1557), Master of the Rolls, Speaker of the House of Commons, and on the accession of Queen Mary to the Crown, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, married Catherine Bassingbourn, a daughter and co-heiress of John Bassingbourn of Woodhall in Hertfordshire. (Farrer, p.197, XXXV);

Impaling: Quarterly of 6:

• 1: Argent, a chevron gules between three caps/steel caps/morions azure the points of the caps to the dexter side (Brudenell) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.137); Michael Hare, the son of Sir Nicholas Hare, Master of the Rolls, married firstly Elizabeth Hobart, a daughter of Henry Hobart of Hales Hall, and secondly Mary Brudenel, a daughter of Sir John Brudenel of Dean in Northamptonshire, and died without issue. (Farrer, p.197, XXXVI-XXXVII).
• 2: Ermine, on a chevron engrailed gules three escallops the centre one or the other two argent (Grove) (Burke, p.432). William Brudelell of Aynho married Agnes de la Grove, daughter and heiress of Thomas de la Grove, by his wife Alice de Raan, daughter and heiress of Walter de Raan (Alice de Raan/Ranes, daughter and heiress of Walter de Raan, of RANES or RAANS MANOR, in Amersham, Buckinghamshire ('The hundred of Burnham: Amersham', in A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1925), pp. 141-155 [2])), by his wife Margery Blackett, daughter and eventual heiress of John Blackett of Castleton and Saltford, in Oxfordshire. (Egerton Brydges, Collins's Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical, Vol. 3 (London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1812), pp.487-8, "Brudenell, Earl of Cardigan" [3]). Arms of "Reynes of Buckinghamshire and Kent": Chequy or and gules, a canton ermine (Burke, p.849)
• 3: Azure, a bend cotised between six crosses-crosslet fitchy or (Blakett of Castleton and Saltford, Oxfordshire, an heiress of Grove. Text per Collins's Peerage of England: William Brudelell of Aynho married Agnes de la Grove, daughter and heiress of Thomas de la Grove, by his wife Alice de Raan, daughter and heiress of Walter de Raan, by his wife Margery Blackett, daughter and eventual heiress of John Blackett of Castleton and Saltford, in Oxfordshire. (Egerton Brydges, Collins's Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical, Vol. 3 (London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1812), pp.487-8, "Brudenell, Earl of Cardigan" [4]) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.89, "Blaket"));
• 4: Sable, a stag's head cabossed argent attired or between the attires a cross pattée fitchée of the third through the nostrils an arrow of the last feathered of the second (Bulstrode, heiress of Brudenell) (Burke, p.143)
• 5: Gyronny of eight sable and or (an heiress of Bulstrode, from the order in which they appear); (Gyronny of eight or and sable, given in the Brudenell pedigree in Visit of Bucks, 1634, but without family name. These are the arms of the Scottish Clan Campbell);
• 6: Paly of six argent and azure, on a chief sable two swords in saltire of the first hilts or (Knyffe, heiress of Bulstrode) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.574). Text per Egerton Brydges, Collins's Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical, Vol. 3 (London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1812), 489, "Brudenell, Earl of Cardigan" [5]: "I now come to William, brother to the before-mentioned Edmund, and Henry, and second son to William Brudenell, of Aynho, and Agnes his wife. Which William married Agnes, daughter and heir of Robert Bulstrode, Esq. son of Richard Bulstrode, of Hugeley Bulstrode, in com. Bucks, Esq. by Alice his wife, daughter and heir of Thomas Knyffe. And by the said Agnes had the manor of Chalfunt St. Peter's, in the county of Buckingham, and the manor of Hugeley. Her first husband, William Brudenell, was prohably buried in the church of Hugeley for in the windows thereof are the arms he bore, impaling Bulstrode's, and under the name of Brudenell this motto, Think and Thank; and under the name Bulstrode this motto. Doe to please. They had issue Edmund Brudenell...".

Other information

The church of the Holy Trinity > 1737301 is situated in a cul-de-sac, flanked by the old rectory which presently serves as a Preparatory school and Montessori nursery. Church Farm Rare Breeds Centre is a little further down the lane towards where the road ends, bisected by the A10 road. The church is of Norman origins and was extensively restored in the mid-1800s, the architect having been John Raphael Brandon. The church furnishings > 1737324 date from this time but the Charles II (1630-1685) royal arms > 1737336 is described as being one of the finest sets in Norfolk. The most noteworthy feature of the church is the Hare Chapel > 1737312 and the monuments it houses. The chapel was built by John Hare in 1642 as a mausoleum for members of the Hare family. Accessible via a door in the chancel south wall one steps into a light and airy room which houses a number of extraordinary monuments dating from the 17th to the 19th century > 1737355 - 1737351.