Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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included in:-	St Martin, Bowness-on-Windermere
	St Martin, Bowness-on-Windermere: Scripture
evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag item:-  sentence from scripture; Canon 82
source data:-	Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.   goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1849 part 2 p.586  "[St Martin, Bowness-on-Windermere] ..." "Like many of the old churches and chapels in this part of the country, it has once, in obedience to the directions of the eighty-second canon, been profusely embellished with texts of Scripture painted on the walls, and towards the west end of the flank wall of the north aisle sentences from Colossians, c.iii. v.5, and James, c.iv. v.7,8, are still legible. The date of these admonitory texts, which are all that have escaped the hands of the whitewasher, are about Edward VI. or Elizabeth's reign. They are rubricated, and each is enclosed within an ornamental scroll or border crowned with the winged heads "of rudely painted Cherubim." Formerly the spaces between the windows in both aisles were covered with similar chosen quotations, or, as an eminent poet has called them," ""Scrolls that teach thee to live and die,"" "but through want of care some were obliterated, while others were broken to make room for modern monumental tablets. Close to the door, near the east end of the south aisle, there had been on the wall an ancient painting, either on parchment or leather, my informant could not recollect which. That not long since was also removed and carelessly thrown by in the vestry, in order to afford space for other displays of mundane ostentation."
	BRL39.jpg  Wall painting in nave. (taken 18.9.2009)   BRL40.jpg  Wall painting in nave. (taken 18.9.2009)

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