Church of the Holy Trinity

Special thanks to Annette Hudleston Harwood for her wonderful research...


Notes:
1. Possibly a chapel of pre-Norman foundation
2. Building commenced at the time of the de Boyvills
3. Remains of an ancient carved cross
4. A "vesica" window---fish or fluke (like the bladder of a fish)
5. Altar tomb of Sir John Hudleston (d.1493) and his wife Mary Fenwick (m.c. 1440) and their shields/coats of arms. Other shields denote the marriages of their children viz. Nevill, Stapleton Curwen, Pennington, Leigh.
6. Alabaster tomb of Sir Richard Hudleston, (d.1509) grandson of the above Sir John and his wife Elizabeth Dacre.
(This couple dsp. The lordship went to his Uncle Sir John, who had m. Joan Stapleton widow of Sir Christopher Harcourt.)
7. At one time a wooden effigy, known as "Terrible Dick" and was believed to be that of Sir Richard Hudleston, who fought at Agincourt, rested on top of the tomb.

Many brasses commemorate other members of the Millom Huddlestons.

Millom Parish Registers date from 1591-1812
The Church was restored in 1930.





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