Frome St John the Baptist parish church
Over the centuries items have been given away or found their way
to other churches, museums and other places.
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Ironwork
A C17 wrought iron screen
- now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
This has often beem thought to have been a screen which divided the Lady Chapel,
formerly the private chapel of the Earls of Cork and Orrery, from the
North Aisle. In fact it is misleading to see it arranged in a straight line
as a screen as the three sections of the railings were originally arranged
along the sides and across the end of a monument. The monument was in memory
of one of the Leversedge family to whom the Lady Chapel, and nearby chapel
at the end of the North Aisle had belonged before they passed to the Earls of
Cork and Orrery.
These tomb railings were removed in the 1860's re-ordering of
the chapels following their surrender to the parish by the Earl of Cork and Orrery.
It bears the arms of the Leversedge and Prater families: Robert Leversedge
and Margaret Prater having married some time before 1614.
The total length of railings [V&A catalogue ref 1092-1875] is some 15ft 10in
and they are illustrated in a V&A booklet, "English Wrought Iron Work" (HMSO
1950), as well as in an image on display at St John's.
A C19 screen - believed now to be part of a domestic property in mid-Somerset
This screen divided the baptistry, the chapel of St Nicholas, from the
North Aisle and was removed in the 1960's as was the stained glass window by Lavers and Barraud
which can be seen in the image. The early C16 Cabell glass was retained.
