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Hatchment Appeal St Leonards, Deal Hatchment Appeal St Leonards, Deal Contents 3 Background 4 The project 5 The Hatchments and other items • Man O’ War 1705 7 What is a Hatchment? 8 What work needs doing? 10 Descriptions of the Hatchments 14 Queen Anne Arms 15 Bulstrode Board 17 Scripture and benefaction boards 18 The History of the people commemorated by the Hatchments and other memorials The Appeal and project are being run by “The Friends of St Leonards, Deal” on behalf of the church. Contact details: Email: [email protected] Website: www.stleonardsdeal.co.uk Donations should be made payable to: “St Leonards P.C.C” and can be sent to: Steve Goodsell 13 Downs Close East Studdal CT15 5 BY 2 Background There has been a church on the current site since at least 1180 and evidence has been found to suggest an earlier building stood on the site during the Saxon period. Although the towns development over the years has left St Leonards standing on the outskirts, it still remains the Parish Church for Deal. As Deal has grown in size, so has the church, leaving the present building a cocktail of various architectural styles, including many important features from all periods. It has developed in a manner which lead one Bishop to call it "The most cockeyed church in Christendom" It is well worth a visit to discover exactly what he meant! It is not only the building itself that is of historic interest. The church also contains many important artefacts from past generations which are of great local and national interest because they echo the part the church has played in Deals history and also the part Deal played in the proud Naval tradition of Britain. It is evident that over the years the town and church have been justifiably proud of their place in the life of the country and preserved the many reminders of the importance of Deal. It was in order to continue this stewardship of our historical inheritance, that the “Friends of St Leonards” or “FOSL’s” was established in 2007 with the specific aim of raising funds to help maintain and improve the fabric of the building and also those items of historic importance it contains. The group is independent of the church, while of course working closely with it, and its membership is open to all irrespective their religious beliefs. Soon after FOSL’s formation, the collection of Hatchments and other artworks within the church were identified as being of local and national significance and in need of urgent restoration. To this end, last year the Friends organised a comprehensive professional assessment of their condition and now at the request of the church , are organising an appeal to raise the necessary funding to have this work carried out. 3 The Project The main aim of the project is to conserve the fine collection of art works for future generations to enjoy. We also want to raise awareness locally and nationally of the importance of the collection and increase the current knowledge about the people and events commemorated, with emphasis on how this relates to the story of Deal’s place in our maritime history. We will achieve this by making the collection and the information more accessible to the public both during and after the project. During the fundraising we intend to start achieving this by: • Holding open days with emphasis on the collection • Creating a website • Making maximum contact with the various news media • Holding talks about the collection • Researching the history of the people and events behind the objects • Developing links with local Schools, Colleges and Universities to enable them to participate in the research and conservation • Involving the public and local history and art societies in the work • Starting a record of the project with the aim of producing a lasting record of the work undertaken. Once the conservation is underway, we intend to continue with all the above and also provide the opportunity for people to see the conservation in progress, by arranging for some of the work to be carried out in-situ and also organising visits to the restorers studios wherever possible. Once the conservation is complete, we intend to produce a publication which will fully document the collection and its conservation. Along side this we intend to maintain the website and continue to hold organised open days to ensure that the work carried out is discovered and appreciated by as many people as possible. We would also hope that links made with the local community during the project will continue to flourish and that together we can move on to record more of the history of the church building itself, with the aim of eventually producing a comprehensive record of its history, architectural development and all the artefacts it contains. 4 The Hatchments and other items The collection of sixteen Hatchments in St Leonards is one of the finest in Britain and spans a period between 1673 and 1865 and contains good examples of the changing fashions in their design over the years. We are lucky they have survived - in many churches they have been removed when repairs to the church were required, never been replaced and have now disappeared! This is a shame as they are not only decorative, but also contain much of interest to local historians, genealogists and those interested in heraldry. In many cases the paintings directly reflect Deal’s maritime history, commemorating admirals, captains, deaths at sea and even the commander of a ship, the Amsterdam, from one of Britain’s great naval rivals, the Dutch. Ships appear as crests and sailors as supporters, reminding the viewer of the deceased’s naval connections. The Deal shipyards may also have an indirect link with these paintings, as some of the panels and canvases may have been made from off-cuts of sail canvas and wooden planking, cheap and easily available to local heraldic painters. The church is also lucky in having many other wall hangings and panels of note, including early examples of both carved and painted Royal Arms boards, a large monumental board thought to be unique in its design and a 1705 painting of a Man O’ War commemorating the Great Storm of 1703 in which thirteen ships on their way back from the war of Spanish Succession, were wrecked on the Goodwin Sands and 1200 souls lost. 5 6 What is a Hatchment? Hatchments came into use in the early 17th century and originated in the Low Countries. They started as a replacement for the medieval achievement (the carrying of the shield, helm and other accoutrements) at funerals of knights and other nobles. It was customary in this country for the hatchment to be carried in front of the funeral procession, hung outside the home during mourning (usually a year and a day) and then to be placed in the church where burial had taken place. The practice was commonplace into early Victorian times but now has become almost obsolete, although some Oxford colleges still follow the practice. The most recent I am aware of in Kent is that of Sir Arthur Luxmoore in the church at Bilsington dated 1944. Over time memorial plaques of similar design were produced and some would say these were not "genuine" hatchments, but it is not always easy to differentiate between those produced for the funeral and those some time later purely as memorials. On the previous page, is a series of illustrations which show how the make up of the arms and the background colour to the hatchment is of great significance and enables even a casual observer to tell the marital status of the deceased. • Single people had only one coat of arms on the hatchment and the background colour was all black. • Where a male death, a helm surmounts the arms. For a female death it is either a ribbon or left unadorned • Where married, both parties arms are shown. Male are always on the left, and the surviving partners are on a light background. For the second death the whole background is again black. • Where more than one marriage has occurred, previous spouses can be shown in various ways (see1, 2, 3 and 4) • I believe the example for a Bishop (showing mitre and stole) to be incorrect, in that the colours of the halves should be reversed if he is pre-deceasing his wife or both parts should be black if his is the second death. • The example for the Peer shows the extra adornments by way of supporting animals and crown that went with rank. 7 What work needs doing? The amount of work required varies between the different items. Some need only a thorough clean and their fixings renewed. Others are on the point of no return if nothing is done. The book Hatchments in Britain vol. 5 by Peter Summers says of the hatchment for Admiral Sir John Harvey and also that for Lady Sarah Drake, that in 1975 they were almost indecipherable. These two will be lost forever if action is not taken very soon. The survey commissioned last year says of Admiral Harvey’s “ The support is a very degraded canvas with extensive paint loss exposing areas of bare canvas, which are very dark, probably as a result of oxidation over a long period”. And of Lady Sarah Drake’s “The painting is the most severely damaged hatchment in the church. The support is a very degraded canvas with extensive paint loss and, massive surface deformation.” 8 Some of the boards on which the paintings have been executed are in need of attention – The Hatchment for Scrivens has woodworm (right) as do several others including that for Poulton (see below) Without treatment eventually the Boards will crumble and we will have lost our heritage.
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