HEXAB3060  Hover onThumbnail to enlarge |
| Hatchment of The Revd Sloughter Clarke AB d.1820 |
| hatchment | flat art |
| oil on canvas |
| The saltire cross was from the arms of his wife Honour, (d.1805 aged 72), heiress of Robert Andrews, Esq.; her arms are carried “in pretence”. Her memorial tablet on the west wall of the north transept bears the same arms. The swans and the three pellets, or black roundels, were the heraldic charges of the Clarke family; funerary motto: “IN CŒLO QUIES” (In heaven peace). Arms: Argent on a bend gules between three roundels sable, three swans proper [for Clarke]; an escutcheon in pretence gules a saltire or surmounted by another vert [for Andrewes]. Crest: Above a helm a swan proper in beak a roundel sable. Mantling: gules and argent. |
| Unframed hatchment for Revd Sloughter Clarke, AB (d.1820 aged 79; buried in the Crypt [HEXAB1061]; memorial in N Transept [HEXAB1024.2]), father of Robert Clarke above. Lecturer of Hexham Abbey 1766–1801. |
| 1820 |
| [from Wright 1823 p.97]:— The family vault is beneath, entered from the churchyard. Above is a large well-painted escutcheon bearing the whole arms [possibly HEXAB3060]. For a time after 1908: on the N wall of the Nave N Aisle, towards the E end, shadow still visible in 2020. |
| on display |
| Nave/South Wall/Bay 3 |