Identifier: adamsillustrated00ryea (find matches)
Title: Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Publisher: Rye : Adams
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d three chancels, one ofwhich belonged to the Oxenbridge family, and is easilydistinguished from the others by the architecture beingmuch more elegant. Sir Goddard Oxenbridge, also em-ployed foreign workmen in repairing and enlarging thechurch ; the decorated doorway, &c., are still interesting.A large monument to his memory (date 1537) Caenstone, is worthy of notice. It consists of an altar tomb,upon which lies a knight in plate armour, his head restingon his helmet, and his feet on a lion. On the floor of thechancel is a brass inscribed in Latin to Robert Oxenbridge,Esq. (1487) and Anne his wife (1492). The male figurehas been torn off, leaving only the legs ; the female figureis perfect. There is another brass to two daughters ofRobert Oxenbritige. At the east end of the south aisle isa very beautiful Flamboyant window, of three lights. Thisstyle is very unusual in England, but, curiously enough,there are remains of similar windows of three lights in the • ( >>IJIU ^L K
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GUIDE TO RYF,. 163 Augustinian Friary at Rye. The tracery, however, is notpure Flamboyant, which is a French style, hut more likethat of Perpendicular, with which il corresponds as toperiod in England. Dean Swifts cradle is also exhibited. This was presentedto the Rector by a relation (who had come into itspossession at a sale of curios ) and washy him presentedto the Church. There is notliing curious about the work-manship or shape of the cradle, its interest lying mainlyin its connection with the infancy of the author ofGullivers Travels. Swift was born in 1607, and expertssay the cradle is at least 250 years old. Visitors to Brede Church should look at a glass case inthe Church wall containing the old pitch-pipe, usedin the Church (before the introduction of an organ) forstarting the Psalm tunes; and should examine a hand-some oak register chest, the panels of Dutch workmanship,and of considerable age. This Church is in an excellent state of preservation,thanks to the present Recto

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