Relhan Collection : 290 Great Shelford church. Altar tomb to W Redman, Bishop of Norwich (1594) and Margaret his wife (1615)

Relhan, Richard, 1782-1844

Relhan Collection

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>The altar tomb which Relhan labels as erected to William Redmond seems to be one that Cole more accurately records as erected <i>by</i> William Redmond, Bishop of Norwich, in memory of his father John Redmond of Sawston (d. 1558) and mother Margaret. Margaret re-married Christopher Torrell, with whom she is buried in this church. It later also records John’s son William, Bishop of Norwich (d.1594), who married Isabel Calverley, and their other children who had already died and were remembered affectionately by their brother William. Cole in 1742 says ‘<i>this against the N Wall and on the same steps is another very handsome mural monument placed also on an altar tomb likewise is much out of repair and broken’</i>. By 1827 it was considered fortunate that the altar tombs were just heaps of painted stones that were fast falling into ruin and by 1929 most of the monuments were lost, but there are still remains of a large elaborate monument to John Redman in the N wall of the chancel, with 3 Redman coats of arms above and 3 of Goldwell impaling Torrell. Several early brasses recorded by Cole were damaged or removed after the tower collapsed in 1797. </p><p>Bell 2013; Bradley and Pevsner 2014; Palmer 1932; VCH 1982</p></p>