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DAC19 Bell & Frame A 0610

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:31:23 -0700

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DAC18 Coddington All Saints Inside Lower Tower Room Chest & Stone A 0611

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:31:23 -0700

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DAC16 Bodley Coddington ground plan sketch after improvements

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:31:23 -0700

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Coddington All Saints - S-aisle E-Window Exterior IMG_0124

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:31:22 -0700

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The east window of the south aisle has three lancet-lights (the central with a cusped top) with tracery of three quatrefoils above, and hoodmould with label stops over. The label stops show a man with flowing hair and a woman with headdress and veil.

The 1865 rebuilding plan drawn up by architect GF Bodley indicated that this window was to be recycled from the former church, so it is likely that this window once lit either the chantry altar or the chancel. In 1911, Rev Atwell M Y Baylay told the Thoroton society that he considered it to be 14thC. Permission to set uo the chantry chapel was granted to Henry de Codyngton in 1404.

The window is filled with stained glass dated 1882, made by Morris & Co to cartoons by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. The figures occupy only small proportion of the windows, the majority of the glass being silver-stained quarries with patterns of broomscods and daisies.

bodley coddington after improvements

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:31:20 -0700

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Coddington Churchyard - An Ashwell Gravestone IMG_3678

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 02:14:36 -0700

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Taken during Coddington History Group's survey of Coddington All Saints churchyard, 2013.

Each gravestone was recorded with an 8-page document.

Coddington Graveyard Survey - Working on Two Ashwell Monuments IMG_3677

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 02:14:35 -0700

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Moses Ashwell's Tomb and the unusual 1750s gravestone revealing the tragic deaths of five children of John and Jane Ashwell.

The gravestone has heavy mason's tooling marks on its rear face and sides.

Coddington Graveyard - Shallowly buried Gravestone IMG_3605

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 02:14:35 -0700

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A shallowly buried sandstone gravestone which we were able to locate by probing and reveal by rolling back the turf.

These stones were often surprisingly sharp and well preserved - the text almost reflected in the roots of the overlying turf!

Coddington Gravestone - Francis Blackbourn 1867 IMG_4985

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 02:00:07 -0700

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One of the mid-Victorian stones, erected shortly after the church was rebuilt and the graveyard rearranged and re-landscaped.

A fine habitat for lichen!

There were a lot more stones with verse than we'd thought, but few as easily legible as this. And the lighting was seldom this favourable either!

At ground level on this sandstone headstone you can also see the name of the mason's firm.

Coddington Graveyard Survey - Ashwell Tragedy IMG_4896

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 02:00:05 -0700

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The portion of the gravestone that revealed partial dates of death 175X and ages of the victims. This allowed us to locate the events in the parish records. You have to get your eye in, and the lighting and sponging techniques are critical.

Challenging, but interesting and worthwhile work!

Coddington Church Moses Ashwell's Tomb 1815 IMG_4300

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:51:54 -0700

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Moses Ashwell's rather decayed and much-patched tomb, by the wall of Coddington All Saints chancel. The church is surrounded by security fencing because of the danger of falling tiles from the roof - a measure that seems rather excessive. Graveyard surveying work within this area was only permitted if we were using hard hats.

Sometimes you needed distance to best decipher the inscriptions.

Southwell DAC - All Saints Coddington Vestry Window with Arch IMG_4961

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:25:01 -0700

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A detail of the masonry over the vestry E-window. This was marked as being scheduled to be a re-used window in 1864-5 rebuilding plans by architect G F Bodley.

Southwell DAC - All Saints Coddington Ashlar Stone Chancel IMG_4955

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:25:00 -0700

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The 1865 newspaper account of the church reopening and the 1957 church inspection report both identified this as Ancaster fair-faced ashlar.

Southwell DAC - All Saints Coddington Faces Label Stops IMG_4952

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:24:59 -0700

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We have only these two faces on the exterior of Coddington Church, and although we think they are re-used they might date from the 1865 rebuilding. This is one of the label-stops on the hoodmould of the S-aisle E-window.

No gargoyles or beasties!

Inside there is another single face on the north arcade, along with two little owls.

Southwell DAC - All Saints Coddington Faces Label Stops IMG_4951

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:24:58 -0700

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Southwell DAC - All Saints Coddington Local Stone IMG_4940

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:24:58 -0700

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Foundation of local Coddington stone - blue-lias limestone.

Those of us with whose houses have residual masonry or foundations of this stone will recognise the way it wears and crumbles. You can still see similar walls in Newark friary, Balderon and Collingham, and close to the church in a Charity Farm outbuilding, on Chapel Lane Coddington.

When this was built they still had some good stuff! A village lime-burning industry lasted until the start of the 20thC. Blagg thought this stone had been used by Bishop Alexander's builders in the rubble-stone infills of Newark Castle. Brenda Pask (in her book about Newark St Mary Magdalene) quotes the intention to use it in Newark for the 16thC Philpott's Almshouses

Southwell DAC - All Saints Coddington Local Stone IMG_4939

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:24:57 -0700

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Rebuilding junction between the ancient local Coddington stone blue-lias limestone, almost certainly quarried in the village, and the new ashlar of 1864-5.

Coddington Graveyard Survey - Ashwell Tragedy IMG_4933

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:24:56 -0700

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One of the stories to emerge from the detailed Coddington Graveyard Survey.

Close by Moses Ashwell’s tomb is an unusual sandstone headstone with a double-shaped top. Perseverence, a sea-change in the weather and the parish records were able to unlock the personal tragedy recorded here.

The gravestone was in memory of five young children (Michael, George, Ann, John and William) the offspring of John and Jane Ashwell. There were dates of 175X (but no surname). The parish records revealed that between August 1753 and January 1755 the unfortunate Ashwells buried five children aged between the ages of 6 months and 15 years, four of them tragically within three months. John’s widow, Jane Ashwell’s stone says she died in 1781 and there is another stone recording Michaels death. We don't know if these deaths were as a result of an epidemic.

In the survey three or four further Ashwell stones were discovered, all laid flat - those with legible dates read 178X and 1796.

Moses Ashwell's large sandstone table-tomb, which dates to 1815, stands close to the chancel south-door. It is the only large old monument in the churchyard and is in poor condition, with many concrete repairs. It has a bare top, and vertical faces filled with one or three fielded panels with scooped-out corners. The central panel on the south side bears a largely eroded inscription to Moses Ashwell.

It marks the burial of one of the last of a long line of Coddington churchwardens, swornsmen and yeoman farmers. In 1404 John Ashwell was appointed as the first chantry priest for the De Codyngton chantry. Ashwell’s are listed in the earliest surviving Coddington Arcdeacons Presentments of 1570s and in surviving 16thC wills. Four Ashwells received land grants in Coddingtons Enclosure Act in 1760. Moses Ashwell was the churchwarden preparing vestry accounts (1797-1807), and we have his signature (along with that of Stephen Ashwell) on them. The family left the village in the middle of the 19thC, and spent it strength and fortunes in a destructive court case, Ashwell v Ashwell. (The Thorpes acquired some of their holdings and the story comes down to us in the proof-of-title documents for some of the lots in the 1918 Estate Sale.)

North Muskham St Wilfrid's Church IMG_5095

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Thu, 09 May 2013 01:36:39 -0700

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North Muskham St Wilfrid's Church IMG_5093

nobody@flickr.com (dajavous) — Thu, 09 May 2013 01:36:38 -0700

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