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By the chancel north wall, William Noel is depicted reclining on the right elbow wearing armour,
a full-bottomed wig, scarf, sash over his body plate and square-toed spurred boots. Holding a
helmet
in the right hand, the effigy is in front of a pilastered panel carrying a big segmental
pediment, surmounted by Sir William's arms:
Qly. 1st and 4th Or, fretty gules, a canton ermine (Noel).
2nd Gules, on a chief indented sable, three martlets argent (Lovelace).
3rd checky or and azure, a bend ermine (Ward). A baronet's hand.
To the left and right of the inscription panel, over which there is a cherub's head,
are the arms of Lovelace and Ward.
The inscription reads:
Here lieth the body of Sir William Noel, baronet, the only son of Sir Verney Noel, baronet,
who deceased in the three and thirtieth year of his age, upon the 13th of April 1675.
He had two
wives. The first was Margaret, third daughter of John, Lord Lovelace, Baron of
Hurley; her mother was the Lady Anne Wentworth, daughter to the Earle of Cleveland, to whom hee
was married eleven years, and had by her four children, Thomas, Elizabeth, John and William;
only Thomas and John now survive. His second wife was Frances, third daughter of Humble Lord
Ward, Baron of Birmingham: her mother, Frances Baronesse Dudly, and only niece to the Duke of
Somerset.
Hee was married to her almost three years; and had by her three children, Francis,
Elizabeth and William; William being born after his father's death; and now only Frances
survives.
In honour of his memory the said Frances hath built this monument, when she had been
almost four years a widdow, and continues a mourner still.
Sepulchral Effigies of Leicestershire and Rutland
Text copyright Max Matthews 2002. Selected text copyright Bob Trubshaw 2025–6.
Images copyright Max Matthews 2002 or Bob Trubshaw 2002, 2025–6.
No copying or reproduction without prior written permission.
Published by Heart of Albion Press
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