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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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twas now. Structurally it was an impossibility that such a structure wouldtake a spire, but probably it was an afterthought when they rebuilt thenave and found the tower was considerably dwarfed. In the 15th or 16thcentury a pretty chantry chapel was built in the angle between the northtransept and the chancel, and it contained some interesting monuments. Yatton. 13 There was one crux for antiquaries, and that was to decide to whom the■chapel was dedicated. In all the parish books it was constantly spokenof as the Chapel of St. James, yet in the wills of the Newton family, whowere buried there, it was alluded to as the new chapel of St. John theEvangelist, within the parish church of Yatton. It must have been thischapel which was alluded to, though it was true there was another chapelbuilt outside in the churchyard; but that was pulled down with thesuppression of chantries. He had formed a theory, which was, of course,wrong, that there was a dispute between the Newton family and the
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W. Moline, Photo. NEWTON CANOPIED TOMB. parishioners, the former wishing to call it after the patron saint of thefamily, while the latter preferred it to be known as the Chapel of St.James. There were several altars in the church, in addition to the St.James or St. John. Little traces of these remained, for many of the Transactions for the Year 1902. alterations were carried out at a time when the architect sacrificed every-thing for architectural beauty, often taking all historical interest out ofthe building. Mr. T. G. Simmonds supplemented Colonel Brambles remarks bydrawing attention to the collar of SSS on Judge Newtons effigy, and tothe founders tombs m the De Wyke Chapel; also to the crowned figureof the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Annunciation at the back of the Newtontomb in the Newton Chapel. Mr. Simmonds also offered to the companycopies of a list of vicars of Yatton from the earliest times, compiled by theformer vicar, the Rev. John Harrison. Leaving the church, the party re

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