Lynn Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:41 pm
Hello
This is one again where very little is known about this church. It had a not nice feeling to it yes.
What I felt right off was the window and how it was 'not right' in the feelings around it. It did not belong to the Church had a darker feeling of how it came to be there.
Here is what I found:
Holy Trinity Church – Hatton, Warwickshire
Founded 1150, though not in the Domesday Book (1086) Hatton Church has exited from at least the 12th Century, when Hugh de Hatton is documented giving the priory of St Mary of Monmouth, a cell of the Benedictine monetary. Apart from the early 16th century tower very little is known about this church.
There have been some new recent discoveries with this church; the windows that were previously described as being from a “Tree of Jesse” scheme have now been reclassified as Old Testament kings and prophets, originally from the cloister windows from Germany. Glass from this time period is known to have been installed in churches in England around the 12th century and onwards.
John Christopher Hampp (1750-1825) was a dealer that bought displaced glass from Germany and sold it to wealthy English Collectors. A series of glass came up at Sotheby’s in 1970 is now housed in The Kings College Chapel, Cambridge.
Many changes were made in the 1700’s and 1800’s and documents from an 1850 review by the Novices of Warwickshire Churches, stated that the changes were described as “miserable and poverty stricken”, other reviews too were less than flattering. Thus it was demolished inside and re done in 1880.
Lynn