Cartmel Priory, the Parrs, and Harrington family
Anne PARR
Father: Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice TUNSTALL
Married: William HARRINGTON of Cartmell
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/PARR1.htm
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Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Born: ABT 1411
Died: 1464
Notes: Attainted at Coventry, 38 Henry VI.
Father: John PARR of Kendal
Mother: Agnes CROPHULL
Married: Alice TUNSTALL
(dau. of Sir Thomas Tunstall of Thurland Castle and Eleanor Fitzhugh
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This shows a link of marriage of the Parrs to William Harrington of Cartmel -
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Cartmel Priory and the Church of St Mary and St Michael
The first religious use of the village of Cartmel occurred in 677, when King Egfrith of Northumbria gifted the village, along with “all its Britons”, to St Cuthbert. No trace remains of any of these early religious buildings.
It is Cartmel Priory and its Church of St Mary and St Michael founded in 1188 by William Marshall, Baron of Cartmel and later 2nd Earl of Pembroke that defines the village.
The priory’s location came about, it is said, as the fulfillment of a vision in which St Cuthbert directed the monks from Bradenstoke Priory in Wiltshire to construct a priory between two streams, one flowing north and one south. Seeking such a place, they found it in the village of Cartmel beside the river and its tributaries.
However, another legend states that the priory was planned for nearby Mount Bernard, and it was the architect whom St Cuthbert directed to locate the priory between two springs of water. The next morning water flowed from the two foundation stones where the priory church now stands.
Regardless of the truth of either legend, Cartmel priory church was constructed in the village and is now considered one of northern England’s best ecclesiastical buildings.
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The church benefited from the generosity of Lord Harrington, when between 1327 and 1347, a chapel with four traceried windows, was constructed in the south choir aisle. The tomb of Lord Harrington and his wife decorate a space here. Their effigies are lifting up their hearts to God. Traces of original painting remain on the wooden ceiling of the tomb’s canopy. The stone chest that once contained Lord Harrington and his wife’s bodies stands empty. Lord Harrington is depicted in full chain mail armour with his feet resting on a lion. His wife is in full dress with her feet on a dog. Angels hold their heads.
http://www.thecumbriadirectory.com/Tourist_Attractions/Abbeys_Monasteries_and_Churche/Cartmel_Priory/Cartmel_Priory.php
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The south wall of the chancel has Early English cusped sedilia. These are cut into by the Harrington Tomb, a large monument to John Harrington, who died in 1347. This is half its original size, and has been re-sited so that it fills an archway through to the south chapel (the Town Choir). Nonetheless it is, to quote Pevsner, "one of the best of its date in England." It comprises a base with bedesmen, above which is a platform decorated with a band of flowers on which rest effigies of Lord John and his wife Joan.
Other figures include St Catherine, St Peter, St John Baptist, St Michael, and pleureurs. Shields, signs of the evangelists, and foliage ensure that virtually every surface is worked in carving of the highest quality. The canopy has a ceiling of painted boards showing Christ in Glory with emblems of the evangelists.
http://www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/cartmel.htm
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another marriage link of the Parrs and Harringtons -
Thomas TRESHAM (Sir)
Born: 1488
Died: Mar 1559
Buried: Church of All Saints, Rushton, Northamptonshire, England
Notes: Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, appointed by a Royal Charter of Mary, Queen of England, dated Greenwich, 2 Apr 1557.
Father: John TRESHAM
Mother: Isabel HARRINGTON
Married 1: Anne PARR
Children:
1. George TRESHAM
2. William TRESHAM
3. Isabel TRESHAM
4. Mary TRESHAM
5. John TRESHAM of Rushton
Married 2: Lettice (Catherine) PENNYSTONE (w.1 of Robert Knollys- w.2 of Sir Robert Lee)
Tomb of Sir Thomas Tresham Rushton Church
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/TRESHAM.htm
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A third link of the Parrs and Harringtons...
including the John de Harrington
buried in the tomb at Cartmel...
Alice TUNSTALL
Birth: Abt 1415
Of Thurland Castle, Yorkshire, England
Parents:
Thomas TUNSTALL
Isabel HARINGTON
Married:
Thomas PARR
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Isabel HARINGTON
Birth: Abt 1364
Brearley, Yorkshire, England
Parents:
Nicholas De HARINGTON [SIR KNIGHT]
Isabella ENGLISH
Married:
Thomas TUNSTALL
Abt 1382
Of, Thurland, Lancashire, England
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Nicholas De HARINGTON [SIR KNIGHT]
Birth: 1343 ?
Farleton, Lancashire, England
Father: John De HARINGTON
Mother: Katharine BANNISTER
Married:
Isabella ENGLISH
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John De HARINGTON
Birth: Abt 1304
Aldingham, Lancashire, England
Death: 1359
Father: John De HARRINGTON
Mother: Margaret Or Juliana BURLINGHAM
Married: 1. Katharine BANNISTER
2. Katherine SHERBUNE
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John De HARRINGTON
Birth: Abt 1281
Of Aldingham, Lancastershire, England
Death: 2 Jul 1347
England
Burial:
Cartmel Church
Father: Robert Sir HARRINGTON
Mother: Agnes CANSFIELD
Married:
1. Abt 1306
Margaret Or Juliana BURLINGHAM
Of Aldingham, Lancashire, England
2.Joan DACRE
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Robert Sir HARRINGTON
Birth: Bef 1262
Flemingby, England
Death: 1297
Aldingham, Lancashire, England
Father: De HAVERINGTON
Mother: Mrs De HAVERINGTON
Married:
Agnes CANSFIELD
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