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A brass portrait in the church shows William Audley, who was alive at the time, standing with his feet on a lion, magnificent in armour and with a very long sword. William Alington, Treasurer of the Exchequer (d. 1446) also has his tomb in Horseheath church is marked by a monumental brass describing
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is wrong in assigning the house to Webb). It was a Classical eleven-bay house with a three-bay pediment, quoins, hipped roof, balustrade and belvedere on the roof. It was further enlarged in 1688, but pulled down in 1777. The splendid wrought-iron gates went to
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him as sometime treasurer of Ireland and treasurer of Normandy. Near him is the brass of Sir Robert Alington, Knt., laid to rest in May 1552. (Sir Robert had been married to Margaret, daughter of Sir
442:, a blaze of light from great transomed windows, is 15th century, and its lofty height is crowned by a noble roof with a great span, with massive moulded beams and carved bosses. The oak 474:, and lies in splendour with his son, the above-mentioned Sir Robert (who predeceased his father), one above the other, both in armour, heads on helmets and feet on hounds. 497:, The Alingtons thrived under the Stuarts and had the privilege of handing to the King his first drink at coronations. The house was rebuilt in 1663-65 by architect Sir 326: 318: 155: 182: 485:'s day on an impressive alabaster monument with his wife and their six children, he in slashed breeches and armour, she in a ruff and hooped skirt. 302: 620: 540: 264: 116: 625: 418:, and it had for a while a fine house in a great park, but both are now gone. The population of the village is included in the 362: 295: 615: 290: 307: 67: 45: 38: 354: 344: 493:
The Alingtons held the manor here and lived at Horseheath Hall. Sir William Alington, was killed at the battle of
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screen also dates from the 15th century and still has traces of painting in its panels. There is a 16th-century
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A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland
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The Visitation of Cambridge, made in 1575 & 1619
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Horseheath is located in Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
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TL600458
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South Cambridgeshire
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Cambridgeshire
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East
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England
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Cambridgeshire
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East of England

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