Relhan Collection : 279 Rampton church. Arms and crest of Lisle with note of the Manor of Rampton and of the Lisle Monument

Relhan, Richard, 1782-1844

Relhan Collection

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>1819</p><p>The shield of arms labelled ‘Arms of the Lisle Family’. First paragraph headed ‘<i>The Manor of Rampton 7 Miles from Cambridge</i>’ and is followed by a longer description of monument (<b>277-278)</b>, its colouring and the family’s connection with Rampton including the adjacent castle (Giant’s Hill). ‘<i>his supposed residence is a little to the E of the church where to this day are to be seen foundations of a building and a mound surrounded by a large moat. The monument appears to be about the time of Henry III by the costume</i>’. The arms and crest are blazoned. Cole 1744 had ‘<i>ye whitening and other dirt washed and scraped of ye shield....when ye arms of Lisle appeared as fresh as if painted but yesterday’</i>. Relhan also here describes the arms on the shield of the effigy, but by Bell’s time ‘<i>the sculpture is defaced and no bearings are decipherable on the shield’</i> (1883). Cole also records glass in E window which includes a lily (for Lisle?) between 2 bells. This does not survive. </p></p>