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bad rough-cast [1]. Near the end of the town stands a handsome
house of Colonel Wilson's, and adjoining to it the church, a very
large gothic fabric, with a square tower, it has no particular
ornaments but double aisles, and at the east end four chapels or
choirs; one of the Parrs, another of the Stricklands, the third
is the proper choir of the church, and the fourth of the
Bellingham's, a family now extinct. There is an altar tomb of one
of them dated 1577, with a flat brass arms and quarterings; and
in the window their arms alone, arg. a hunting horn sab. strung
gules. In the Stricklands' chapel several monuments, and another
old altar tomb not belonging to the family: on the side of it a
fess dancette between ten billets deincourt. In the Parrs' chapel
is a third altar tomb in the corner, no figure or inscription,
but on the side cut an escutcheon of Ross of Kendal (three water
buckets) quartering Parr, (two bars in a bordure engrailed).
2dly, an escutcheon, vaire, a fess for Marmion; 3rdly, an
escutcheon, three chevronels braced, and a chief (which I take
for Fitzhugh) at the foot is an escutcheon, surrounded with the
garter, bearing Ross and Parr quarterly, quartering the other two
before-mentioned. I have no books to look in, therefore cannot
say, whether this is the Lord Parr, of Kendal, Queen Catherine's
father, or her brother the Marquis of Northampton; perhaps it is
a cenotaph for the latter, who was buried at Warwick, in 1571.
The remains of the castle are seated on a fine hill on the side
of the river opposite the town; almost the whole inclosure of the
walls remain, with four towers, two square and two round, but
their upper parts
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[1]
[The accounts of things given by hasty travellers, are generally
inaccurate and often injudicious. As to the principal streets in
Kendal, they are neither three in number, nor nearly parallel.
They are but two. One about a mile in length, and another about
half a mile. These streets contain indeed not many elegant
houses; they are however on the whole as open and well-built as
in most other towns. As to the bad rough-cast our author speaks
of, judges of rough-cast have always supposed this country no way
deficient in the materials, or in the manner of laying it on.]
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