de L'Isle effigy - All Saints - Rampton, Cambridgeshire - Stone Church Artefacts on Waymarking.com

A late 13th-century effigy of a knight placed in a chancel recess in All Saints' church, Rampton. A member of the de L'Isle (or Lisle) family.

"The church, dedicated to ALL SAINTS by 1518, consists of chancel, nave with south aisle and porch and north vestry, and west tower, mostly built of field stones with ashlar dressings. The thatched nave roof is one of only two surviving in Cambridgeshire. Evidence for a 12th-century building comprising nave and chancel exists in the three-shafted jambs and scalloped capitals of the chancel arch, in a blocked round-headed window in the north wall of the nave, and in chevron voussoirs re-used in the east wall. The unbuttressed tower, which has slim lancets in its second stage, was begun in the later 12th or the 13th century, and the south aisle was added in the 14th.

The advowson was part of the estate with which Geoffrey Burdeleys enfeoffed Sir Robert de Lisle in 1260, and it afterwards descended with the manor in the families of Lisle, Windsor, Scrope, Alcocke, and Leman. It was said in 1498 to be held of the prior of Barnwell. In 1343 it was reserved from the grant for years made to Sir John de Lisle by Alice Seymour and her partners, who presented in 1347 and 1349.

In the 18th century the windows still contained armorial glass commemorating the Lisle family."

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