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On the chancel north wall this mural monument depicts James and his wife Frances kneeling
either side of a double prayer desk. He is in armour and a ruff while Frances is wearing a long
black gown.
Each figure is under its own arch, which has a decorated soffit.
On either side of the creation is a column topped with a Corinthian capital.
Above is an achievement of arms: Quarterly
- Sable, a fret argent (Harington)
- Argent, three bars gules (?)
- Azure, fretty or (?)
- Or, a chevron between three billets gules (Delaunt)
- Argent, a bend engrailed gules (Culpepper)
- Argent, a chevron sable between nine martlets gules (Hardeshall)
- Or, a cross engrailed gules (Hardeshall)
- Vert, three stags at gaze or (Rotherham)
- Argent, fretty sable (?)
- Azure, a saltire and a chief or (Bruse)
- Argent, an escutcheon within a double treasure flory-counter-flory gules
(Earl of Huntingdon)
- Argent, a lion rampant azure, a chief gules (Waltheof)
- Vert, a wolf's head or (?)
- Argent, a cinqufoil pierced azure (Moton)
- Or, three piles gules, a canton vair (Bassett of Sapcote)
- Or, a fess gules (?)
- Ermine, a bend gules.
On the left are the arms of Harington and on the right those of Culpepper.
The inscription, on two plaques, reads:
Here lyeth entombed James Harrington esquire the youngest sonne of Sir James Harrington of Exton, Kt and Fraunces his first wife, one of the Daughters
and Heirs of Robert Sapcote of Elton in the County of Huntington, Esq by whom he had yssue sixteen children viz nyne sons and seaven daughters; which said Fraunces deceased
in September 1599, and the said James Harrington deceased the 2nd February 1613.
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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