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Is on the western banks of the river, and is a pleasant
village with a charming green, at the distance of four miles
from Carlisle. The church is a neat edifice of the
perpendicular style, consisting of a nave with aisles and
clerestory windows, and a chancel with north aisle, the
burial-place of the Howards. A modern tower stands at the
west end. In the chancel, on a table monument having its
sides adorned with foliated circles in squares, lie the
mutilated effigies of Sir Richard Salkeld, knight, and his
lady, the ancient possessors of Corby, from whom that manor
passed by purchase to the present proprietors. The
monumental chapel of the Howards contains that masterpiece
of Nollekins', his monument to the first lady of the late H.
Howard, Esq. She was daughter of Lord Archer, and died in
giving birth to her first child. She is represented as
half-reclining on the tomb, the infant lying across her lap,
and an angel in a stooping posture directing her upturned
gaze to heaven. Further description is needless: tender
minds will always feel themselves sensibly affected by the
contemplation of a fate so melancholy, and that will be
increased by the view of it, pourtrayed as it is here in so
touching a manner.
The walks along the western banks are perhaps as fine as
those on the Corby grounds. The woods are equally
interesting, the rocks as precipi-
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