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Hatchment of Sir Percy Lyham Loraine Bt. PC GCMG 1880–1961
hatchment | flat art
oil on canvas
All baronets bear as an augmentation to their arms the Badge of Ulster, the “Red Hand”, on a silver field.
Arms: Quarterly sable and argent a cross quarterly counterchanged; on a canton argent a sinister hand couped at the wrist gules. The arms are encircled by the collar of The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George and the crest: Out of a naval crown or a dexter arm having a wreath of laurel proper and grasping a trident of the first.
Motto of the Order: AUSPICIUM MELIORIS ÆVI [A pledge of better times]
Helm: An open vizored helm in steel set full-face, the entitlement of a baronet.
Mantling: black lined with silver.
Supporters: a black horse and a white horse.
Family motto: SÆVUMQUE TRIDENTUM SERVAMUS [We preserve the dreaded trident]
Funerary motto: LAURO SCUTOQUE RESURGO [Arise again with laurel and shield]
Framed hatchment for Sir Percy Lyham Loraine, Bt., PC, GCMG, (b 5 Nov 1880, d 23 May 1961 aged 80), succeeded in 1917 as twelfth Baronet of Kirkharle.
Alan Cook, Art Master at Linskill School in North Shields
1961
He was appointed Ambassador in Turkey in 1933 and in 1939 he was transferred to Rome, where he warned Churchill of the Fascist threat. He owned Styford Manor and Staward Hall and, because he retained his love for the countryside round Hexham, he asked for his banner as a Knight Grand Cross, St Michael and St George [HEXAB4125] to be hung in the Abbey. It was originally [1963] over his stall-plate [HEXAB1038]; it now hangs in the nave aisle, and the hatchment which was commissioned by his family hangs in the nave [at West end of South Wall – Churchwardens Record HEXAB9535 p13 1963]. It is unusual to find 20th-century hatchments as the custom is virtually extinct. Of some 4,500 recorded in about 1990 only 120 were of the 20th century.
11May2022: Moved from W end of S wall of Nave to E end of N wall, close to the Loraine banner (in a position previously occupied by one of the early-19th-century hatchments [HEXAB3060]).
on display
Nave/North Aisle/North Wall/Bay 1 (East)
EP 184/137 (1963) Papers re the Sir Percy Loraine hatchment and banner.
1963.To Lady Louise Loraine [Louise Violet Beatrice Montagu-Stuart-Wortley 18Jul1893–08Jun1970] for: 1. Sir Percy Loraine's brass plate on back of choir stalls. 2. Hatchment on wall. 3. St Michael and St George banner on north side of Chancel “previously hung in the London chapel of the Order”. Faculty reg. no.3. Faculty no.2288, 14.2.1963. NRO EP.184/80.



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