Title:
Record of church furnishings at church of St Mary the Virgin, Little Easton
Level: Category
Miscellaneous
Level: Fonds
THE ARTS SOCIETY (FORMERLY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETIES): REPORTS ON CHURCH FURNISHINGS
Scope and Content:
Comprises sections on memorials [inside church], metalwork, stonework, woodwork, textiles, paintings etc., library, windows and miscellaneous, with introductory matter and summary indexes of names. Includes black-and-white photocopies of photographs.

Memorials include tomb of Henry Bourchier, died 1483, and wife Isabel Bourchier, died 1485 (item 1); brass of Robert Fyn, rector of Little Easton 1395-?1431 (item 3); monuments to several members of the Maynard family including Frances Evelyn [Greville formerly] Maynard, Countess of Warwick, 1861-1938 (item 15); tablet by Sir Alfred Gilbert in memory of Dame Ellen Terry, 1848-1928 (item 16); tablet to Charlotte Waller, died 1923, and Anne Waller, died 1933, erected by their employers 'as representing the working women of this parish' (item 18); roll of honour for First and Second World Wars [names are transcribed] (item 21); memorial erected 1990 to men of 386th Bomb Group of United States Army Air Force [names are transcribed] (item 24).

Woodwork includes 'dilapidated ... parish stocks' (item 308).

'Paintings' include wall painting of royal arms 1660 (item 500); fourteenth-century wall paintings of Passion (items 502a,b); roll of rectors 1936, with later additions [names are transcribed] (item 512); plan of churchyard 1926 (item 513).

Windows include stained glass originally from chapel of Easton Lodge 1621 (items 701, 702); stained glass in memory of 386th Bomb Group of United States Army Air Force 1990 (items 707, 708).
Dates of Creation:
1996
Extent:
1 ring binder
Admin History:
Made from 1985 by the Bishops Stortford Group, and sponsored by the Bishops Stortford Decorative and Fine Arts Society.

Key terms

TypeKey termsDescription
Subjects Actors Dame Ellen Terry; memorial tablet at Little Easton, recorded c.1996.
Subjects Church furnishing Little Easton, St. Mary the Virgin, recorded c.1996.
Subjects Clergy Brass of rector of Little Easton 1395-?1431, and roll of rectors, recorded c.1996.
Subjects First World War Roll of honour, Little Easton, recorded c.1996.
Subjects First World War Roll of honour, Little Easton, recorded c.1996.
Subjects Religion Wall paintings of Passion at Little Easton, recorded c.1996.
Subjects Sculptors Sir Alfred Gilbert; tablet in memory of Dame Ellen Terry, recorded c.1996.
Subjects Second World War Roll of honour, and memorial to United States Army Air Force, Little Easton, 1990.
Subjects Stained glass Glass from chapel of Easton Lodge, 1621, and in memory of U.S.A.A.F. 1990, recorded in Little Easton church.
Subjects Stocks Parish stocks of Little Easton recorded in church, c.1996.
Subjects War memorials Little Easton, First and Second World Wars.
Subjects Working class Tablet in Little Easton church to two women 'representing the working women of this parish', recorded c.1996.
Personal Names Anne
Waller 		Little Easton, 1933.
Personal Names Charles
Stuart 		King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1630-1685; wall painting of royal arms at Little Easton, 1660.
Personal Names Charlotte
Waller 		Little Easton, 1923.
Personal Names Frances Evelyn
Greville 		formerly Maynard, Countess of Warwick, 1861-1938; record of memorial at Little Easton, c.1996.
Personal Names Frances Evelyn
Maynard 		later Greville, Countess of Warwick, 1861-1938; record of memorial at Little Easton, c.1996.
Personal Names Henry
Bourchier 		died 1483; record of tomb at Little Easton, c.1996.
Personal Names Isabel
Bourchier 		died 1485; record of tomb at Little Easton, c.1996.
Personal Names Robert
Fyn 		rector of Little Easton 1395-?1431; record of brass, c.1996.
Personal Names Dame
Ellen
Terry 		1848-1928; memorial tablet at Little Easton recorded c.1996.
Personal Names Sir
Alfred
Gilbert 		Sculptor of tablet at Little Easton in memory of Dame Ellen Terry.
Place Names Church of St Mary the Virgin
Little Easton 		Record of church furnishings, c.1996.
Place Names Easton Lodge
Little Easton 		Stained glass from chapel now (1996) in parish church.
Document Types Monumental inscriptions Little Easton, St Mary the Virgin, recorded with church furnishings c1996.
Document Types Photograph Record of church furnishings at Little Easton, c1996, includes photocopies of photographs.
Institutions Bishop's Stortford Decorative and Fine Arts Society Sponsors of record of church furnishings, Little Easton, 1985-c.1996.
Institutions Council for the Care of Churches Holder of negatives of photographs of church furnishings of Little Easton, c.1996.
Institutions United States of America, United States Army Air Force Memorial to 386th Bomb Group, Little Easton, 1990.