Gents Mag 1849 part 2 p.589

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1849 part 2 p.589 whoever would make the largest donation towards the building should choose the site. An offer so reasonable could hardly be refused, and many gifts were accordingly named. The carrier, who had amassed wealth by his business, heard them all, and then declared he would cover the cover the church with lead. This offer, which the rest were either unable or unwilling to outdo, at once decided the affair. The carrier therefore chose the old site, and his arms, or more properly some of the instruments of his trade, were, in accordance with the ancient custom of thus perpetuating the remembrance of benefactors, painted on one of the windows of the north aisle. Tradition adds that this man obtained the name of Bellman, from the circumstance of his having been the first to introduce the bells worn by the fore horse of a gang of pack horses; and the singularity of the church being covered with lead when all the others in the neighbourhood are covered with slate gives probability to the story. The Font, which is of pale red sandstone, is of an octagonal form, and on some sides of the bowl or head small and rudely sculptured faces may be traced. On occasion of putting up additional pews against the west end of the nave, it was found partly built into the wall, and encrusted with plaster. Having been cleansed and purified of its disguise, and placed on a new shaft of lighter coloured stone, raised on steps of a corresponding form, it has lately been removed to the position it now occupies near the principal entrance. There is also to be noticed at the east end, on the soffit of the second arch of the south aisle, within a coloured and rudely ornamented label, the following inscription in black letters, which is partly effaced by the whitewash brush:- [ ] [ ] est ille dies renovari celebrior anno [ ]em facit, et proprio [ ]gnat amore deus [ ]boni stigiis quae coniurata tenebris []unc mala divina fabula facta manu Anglia mole suae mox aspicienda ruinae [ ]ut aetherea libera mansit ope. Exultat Anglia. Faucibus eripior Fauxis quasi carcere mortis, Gloria in excelsis hinc mea tecta salus. Christoferus Philipson Junior Generosus, 1629. The walls, especially in the chancel, are thronged with many neat and handsome marble tablets commemorative of individuals connected by birth or property with the surrounding country - over two or three of which the funeral hatchments of the deceased are suspended, as if to testify it were wished that even in the grave the distinctions of life should follow and overshadow them. Among these monuments the divine and man of learning will single out the elegant memorial to Dr. Watson, the eminent Bishop of Llandaff, who died in 1816, on which the following tributes are engraven:- Quod mortale fuit Ricardi Landavensis juxta coemeterium habet, quod immortale est faxit Deus ΕΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΩ coelum habeat. Vitam obiit IV. non. Jul. A.D. MDCCCXVI. AEtat LXXIX. Hoc marmor, parvulum licet, egregii in conjugem amoris monumentum, poni curavit Dorothea Watson. Et ipsa aevo haud brevi sine labe perfuncta, tumulo eodem sepulta requiescit. Excessit III. Id. April. A.D. MDCCCXXXI. Aetatis suae LXXXI. The bishop's remains are entombed within an inclosed space in the burial ground, at the east end of the church, where, on the stone that rests upon
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