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St Dunstan's Church, Hunsdon, Herts. Post card of drawing by rector  

St Dunstan's Church, Hunsdon, Herts. Post card by Charles Martin

The Parish Church, Hunsdon Herts

Published by Charles Martin , Ponders End, Middlesex, No 2982

Posted 1909

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Hunsdon Church

From a drawing by the Rector

no date or publisher information


Brass recording the iinevitability of death, St Dunstan;s Church, Hendson, Herts.In Hunsdon Church; in a small Chapel, or Burial-Place, of the Lords of the Manor, is a monument, and inscription, in memory of " SIR JOHN CARY, Knt. Baron of Hunsdon," who succeeded his brother George, second Lord Hunsdon, on the death of the latter, in September, 1603. He had been made Governor of Berwick, and Lord Warden of the East Marches, by Elizabeth; and continued in the north till the accession of James the First, whom he accompanied in his progress to the Metropolis: he died in the ):ear 1617. Several of the Calverts lie buried here; some of whom have monuments: and in the chancel is the monument of SIR THOMAS FORSTER, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, who died in May, 1612,_ at the age of sixty-three. Near the pulpit is also a slab, inlaid with a very curious Brass, representing a Huntsman, with his bugle-horn and broad-sword, levelling a cross-bow at a stag, while Death, delineated as a skeleton, is pointing a dart at his breast: beneath is this inscription:

BELOVED OF ALL WHILST HE HAD LVFE VNMOANED OF NONE WHEN HE DID DIE:

JAMES GRAY INTERRED OF HIS WVFE

NEAR TO THIS DEATH'S SIGNE BRASS DOTH LYE; YEARS THIRTY-FIVE IN GOOD-RENOWN

PARKE AND HOUSEKEEPER OF THIS TOWN.

OBIIT 12 DIE DECEMBRIS Ao. DoNI 1591, ÆT. 60.

 

Tradition represents the Huntsman as dying suddenly, while in the act of shooting at a buck: his motto is Sic Pergo; which a celebrated antiquary has translated, 'Thus I go on till the same fate befalls me:'

Britton. The Beauties of England & Wales: Hertfordshire, 1807

Interior, St Dunston's Church, Hunsdon, Herfordshire

Post card posted 1904 - Hatfield Series

 

Sit Thomas Foster's Tomb, St Dunstan's Church, Hunsdon, Herts

Sir Thomas Foster's tomb (Hunsdon & Widford)


Other related Web Sites

United Benefice of Hunsdon with Widford and Wareside

Parish Registers Index

Map and Index of Burials in Lower Churchyard

Recent Photographs on Geograph

British Listed Buildings includes listing details, map, and a modern birds eye view.

Frith Photograph of Church in c1965

The Hertfordshire County Association of Change Ringers list the church bells

     

THOMAS KING. OB. 1735

Here lies Tom King old Dad of fame

Who knew his Gun and eke his Game

The fact whereof both Ball's and Luton

Now can fully prove the truth on

He loved his Bottle and his Friend

Which he enjoy'd unto his End

He Dy'd at last alas poor Tom!

Behold at last his Slab and Tomb.

Epitaph recorded in  Cream of Curiosity


Lightning Strike, St Dunstan's Church, Hunsdon, Herts, May 1913. from post card

  Lightning Strike, St Dunstan's Church, Hunsdon, Herts, May 1913. from post card

Hunsdon Church Struck by Lightning, May, 1913

From post cards - no publisher information


 

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