The Picture of Sheffield; Or, an Historical and Descriptive View of the Town of Sheffield - John Holland

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 Excerpt: ...an artist, residing in Sheffield, and who executed this picture when at the advanced age of 82, as appears by an inscription on its right corner. On the north side are statements of various benefactions to the poor of the parish. It is much to be regretted that this part of the chancel should be so extremely dark. The painting of the Lord's Supper appeal's to obstruct the light from the window so much as to give the place a most gloomy appearI ance, and prevents the painting and other decorations from being distinctly seen. To the north of the altar-table is the vestry, a comfortable room about 14 feet square, occupying the entire north-east corner, and above it is the room in which the church burgesses meet for the transaction of business. The north side of the vestry is occupied by a library consisting of about 200 volumes of books, which were presented by different persons as the commencement of a parochial library about the year 1707. The chancel contains a great number of monuments and inscriptions, some of great antiquity, and the whole forming a sort of record of the principal families connected with the parish for the last two centuries. The most ancient inscription now to be seen is one near to the north corner of the communion rails upon a brass plate, as follows: 9Utte Afarantfoge toljWbe (fflijaftetS btttxuto tSe n tag of trtruarn tfje sere at out ILottte 18 ccccc x an toSoee smile KSu Ijabe mereg men." At the north end of the chancel, the family of the Jessops, of Broomhall, had a burying place, and doubtless many of them are there interred, although there is but one record which bears the following inscription: Here lie the bodies of William Jessop, Of Broomhall, Esq. and the honble Maby Jessop his wife, daughter of James Lord Darcey, of ...