page_title: St Nicholas, Blakeney
section_title: Memorials
hierarchical_section_title: St Nicholas, Blakeney / Memorials
caption_attribution_description: English: Brass with shield to John Calthorp at St Nicholas Church, Blakeney, Norfolk, England. Latin inscription: Hic jacent corpora Johannis Calthorp, armigeri, unii fundatores conventi et Aliciae uxoris ei qui obiit xii die Augustii A(nn)o Dom(ini) MVCIII cuius animae propitietur deus ("here lie the bodies (sic) of John Calthorp, Esquire, one of the founders of the convent and of Alice his wife who died on the 12th day of August in the year of our lord the 1503rd on the soul of whom may god look with favour"). Arms: Chequy or and azure, a fess ermine (Calthorp) impaling A roundel within a bordure engrailed (his wife). According to Farrer, Rev. Edmund, "The church heraldry of Norfolk: a description of all coats of arms on brasses, monuments, slabs, hatchments, &amp;c., now to be found in the county. Illustrated. With references to Blomefield's History of Norfolk and Burke's Armory. Together with notes from the inscriptions attached" , Vol.2, Norwich, 1889,p.375[1][2]: "I. Chequy, a fesse (Calthorpe, Chequy or and azure, a fesse ermine)&#160;; impaling, A roundel, within a bordure engrailed {Astley, Azure, a cinquefoil ermine&#160;; a bordure engrailed. The cinquefoil must have been enamelled on a roundel, which has come away from the brass, leaving only the latter charge.) "Hie jacent corpora Johis Calthorp, armigr., uni fundatorm Coue&#160;? et Aliciae ux(or)is ei., qui obiit xii die Augusti, A. Dni. mv*viii** Quor. aiabus ppiciet de." "John Calthorpe, son and heir of Bichard Calthorpe and his wife Margaret, daughter of William, first sister and heir of John Irmingland, married Alice, daughter of John Astley, Esq., of Melton Constable."— 5/. Norf, ix. 216." "
context_page_description: St Nicholas is the Anglican parish church of Blakeney, Norfolk, in the deanery of Holt and the Diocese of Norwich. The church was founded in the 13th century, but the greater part of the church dates from the 15th century when Blakeney was a seaport of some importance. Of the original structure only the chancel has survived rebuilding, perhaps owing to its link to a nearby Carmelite friary. An unusual architectural feature is a second tower, used as a beacon, at the east end. Other significant features are the vaulted chancel with a stepped seven-light lancet window, and the hammerbeam roof of the nave. St Nicholas is a nationally important building, with a Grade I listing for its exceptional architectural interest.
  Much of the original church furniture was lost in the Reformation, but a late-Victorian restoration recreated something of the original appearance, as well as repairing and refacing the building.
  The Victorian woodwork was created to match the few older pieces that remained, or to follow a similar style; thus, the new wooden pulpit follows the themes of the medieval font.
context_section_description: John Calthorpe's "synfull body" lies at the eastern end of the nave under a marble gravestone and a brass plaque that carries his arms and a Latin inscription describing him as uni fundatorum fratum convent, "a founder [benefactor] of the convent of friars". It is possible that he was originally buried in the chancel of the Carmelite friary, as he requested, but was re-interred in the nave of St Nicholas at the Dissolution. A number of other stones carry standard tags in Latin or English requesting prayers or simply stating the identity of the internee, but Sir John Smyth's 1460 memorial enjoined "As I am that shall you be, Pray for the sowle of me".
  Blakeney was a lifeboat station from around 1825 to 1924. Various wall plaques commemorate the boats' rescues and crew losses from 1862, when the RNLI took over the running of the service, up to the station's closure. There are two blue wooden boards from the RNLI listing the earlier lifeboats and their achievements; the Brightwell (1862), another Brightwell (1863), the Zaccheus Burroughs (1891), and the Hettie (1873). Next to these is a stone plaque listing the rescues from 1877 to 1924, including those of the last lifeboat, the Caroline (1908), and further along the north aisle a painting of George Long, coxswain of the Caroline, is placed above the record of its most famous rescues on consecutive days on 7 and 8 January 1918, when 30 people were saved from two steamers in a storm. A large wooden board acts as a war memorial, listing those locals who died in various military engagements. The clock in the west tower was donated by a Mrs Cooke in 1945 in memory of her late husband and sons.
caption: John Calthorpe's "synfull body" lies under this plaque
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