All Saints, Connington, Huntingdonshire

Description

The church of All Saints, standing very near the eastern wing of Conington Castle, is a beautiful edifice of Ketton stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, lady chapel, south porch and a fine embattled western tower with four large octagonal pinnacles, and containing a clock and 6 bells: there are monuments to David I. King of Scotland, and one to Prince Henry, his son, erected by Sir Robert Cotton kt.; Thomas Cotton. ob. 9 Hen. VIII. (1518-19) and Joan (Paris), his wife; Thomas Cotton, sheriff of Hunts in 1547, and Lucy (Harvey), his wife; Thomas Cotton M.P. for Hunts 1553-4 and 1557-8, and Eliza (Shirley), his wife; Sir Robert Cotton kt. and bart. collector of the famous Cottonian Library; now in the British Museum, ob. 6 May, 1631; Sir John Cotton bart. M.P. for Hunts in 1711, who died in London, 5 Feb. 1731, and Catherine Cotton, d. 1714: there is also a memorial to the Hon. Emily Frances Heathcote, third daughter of Nicholas William, Baron Colbourne, and wife of John Moyer Heathcote esq.; she died 13th October, 1849: in 1912 two monuments were erected, one to John Moyer Heathcote esq. (d. Aug. 3rd, 1912), the other to his wife, Louisa Cecilia Heathcote (d. Jan. 20th, 1910), by their family: in the church is a marble figure of a knight in chain armour and wearing a monk's cowl: there is also a carved oak chair, reputed to have been used by Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringay: there are 250 sittings.

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1583.