Offord d'Arcy 

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Historical notes about the Parish of Offord d'Arcy

Offord Darcy has two old neighbours, the manor house and the church. Richard Nailour had been in his new house just three years when they carried him to the church next door in the year Shakespeare died. He kneels with his two wives, two sons, and six daughters, all in ruffs and all delightful. By the pulpit lies William Taylrd, with his brass portrait showing him in the doctor’s cap he wore in the days of Henry the Eighth. A 14^th century brass has two wives and half a husband, the man so sadly being cut in two being Sir Laurence Pabenham.

The church has been here about 700 years, much re-fashioned in the 14^th century and with a chancel arch new in the 15^th. The oldest part of it is the north arcade, in which three simple Norman arches still stand firm and strong. One of its chief possessions is part of a very fine screen with 600 year old tracery; it is superbly carved. It is not truly a chancel screen; it is all that remains of a screen separating the lady chapel in the south aisle from the nave, and was put across the chancel arch to preserve it. It did not actually fit and therefore side pieces have been added for attachment to the chancel arch piers. Very curious are some of the heads of men and beasts on the walls, grave or gay as the sculptor’s fancy led him. In the north aisle are crudely carved figures of a married couple in two stone panels; they are 600 years old.

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Historic images from around the Parish of Offord d'Arcy

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Manor House Offord D'Arcy

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