Church and cross

A hark back to mediaeval Hathern, the church and the cross

• The Cross looking up Church Street

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• From Echo's Friday Sketchbook Dec 31 1993 (by Olwen Hughes)

  This was in an article entitled 'Hathern's link to the lace industry'  mentioning the Luddite riot of June 28th 1816 against wage reductions that led to six men being hanged in front of Leicester gaol at noon on April 17th 1817 

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• Peter Allen restores and installs church weathercock 1989. Full story in news articles

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• Looking down Church Street to the Cross c. 1969 Someone sits at a desk, is it Church Gift Day? Note the old red Telephone Kiosk

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• The Church viewed from the Rectory garden.

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• Women and children at the Cross, note how far the cross socket stone and shaft are leaning by comparison with the houses behind.

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• This picture, taken sometime before the organ was installed in 1923, shows the old chancel roof, oil lamps & the pulpit in it's original position.

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• Church pre-1930 from Green Hill. Further Pictures of Old Hathern page 25

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• The east window, installed in 1871 as a memorial to members of the Middleton family, replaced the medieval original.

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• Churchyard, still with gravestones, viewed from Green Hill

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• Parish Church with gravestones. Old picture from Absolom "Ab".Griffin

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• Two gargoyles uncovered. Article in Nottingham Evening Post June 27th 1931

  Causing great interest, these were revealed when ivy was removed. The ivy had caused the church clock to stop. The gargoyles are fixed at each end of the drip-stone on the western side of the tower, which dates back to the C14th

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• A view from 1900's.The house on the left ,demolished in the 1960's was Hart's Grocers, later Mrs. Woodfield's General Store.Wall to Stints Farm on right. A Walk Round Hathern 2

  A grade II listed building, a large part dating from the C14th. Some mediaeval features were lost or destroyed during a massive restoration project in 1861-2

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• Church looking down Green Hill

  A picture postcard sent in 1913 to Miss Sally Spencer at a convalescent home in the Outwoods, Loughborough. 

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• View of church from Green Hill This is from article "Hathern is losing its distinctive air.." in Loughborough Monitor Sept 15th 1947. Plus ca change

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• Church pre-1930 from Green Hill. Further Pictures of Old Hathern page 25

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• Church on 1925 postcard. Hathern at War page 20

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• Church postcard 1950s. View from Rectory

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• Sketch of church in local paper by Brian Hollingshead

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• Sketch of Church. Artist unknown

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• Boys outside Hathern Church Jan 1962. Old Hathern in Pictures page 26 Geoffrey Hill, Christopher and Robert Sparks

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• Cross with ivy. From postcard

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• Church in 1920s taken from Rectory. Old Hathern In Pictures page 24 Saxon font in foreground was later moved into the Church

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• From an Artist's Sketchbook No. 40 in series of illustrations in Loughborough Echo

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• Church postcard 1912. Ivy clad tower. Old Hathern in Pictures page 24.Note the pump in the cottage garden

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• Church from Wide Lane, early 1900s. House on left has been shop. Old Hathern In Pictures page 23

  Parish church is safely sited beyond flood waters on the first terrace out of the Soar Valley

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• The bells

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• Church interior. An ancient font, one of the oldest in the county, is regularly used for baptisms. Organ was later turned 90 degrees so that organist sat with back to main pulpit

  The organ was installed in 1913-1914 to replace the harmonium and was described as ' a fine instrument and of beautiful tone'

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• Parish Church nave, pre 1930 with paraffin lamps and earlier position of pulpit. Old Hathern in Pictures page 24

  Also can see flue pipe, probably from pot-bellied stove, passing through chancel arch and out to left of chancel

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• From Artist Magazine July 1940. JF Bee produced railway posters, watercolour landscapes and village scenes in the 1930s and 1940s, some depicting parts of Leicestershire.

   Of Hathern's Cross" he said "This is a type of village whose architecture is all too often dismissed as being ordinary and uninteresting but it has its charm nevertheless." 

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• 1905 or earlier. Looking from Cross up Narrow Lane and Dales Farm House. Postcard picture also on front cover of Old Hathern in Pictures. Generations of children have gathered on its 5 stone steps. maybe a stone cross or lantern head would have topped it

  Behind Cross you can see the Post Office. In 1911 census Mrs. Elizabeth M. Chapman (64) postmistress lived there with her 2 daughters and lodger John Robert Allaby, postman (21)

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• Broken Cross. Old Hathern in Pictures page 15. You can also see on background the chimney to Harriman's factory, the thatched cottage opposite the playground and "Daddy" Wilde's cottage at the top of Pasture Lane

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• Cross Jan 1920 ? With his bicycle you can see the postman, Mr. Bradshaw. Boys are Jack Griffin and Os. Hunt (top) ; Poel Watts, Harry and Jack Thompson, Harry Griffin, Billy and Don Peake (middle) ; Harold and Billy Russell

  The column of the Cross was broken or fell down around 1916. Standing stone to left may be remains of the cross itself knocked down in the Reformation perhaps 

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• Cross postcard sent in 1908

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• More kids on the Cross

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• 1920s view of Cross from Church Street. Old Hathern in Pictures page 21 The line of the original thatched roof can be seen on Church Cottage in the foreground

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• The Cross, about 1925 after shaft being rebuilt. Old Hathern in Pictures page 16

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• Hathern Market Cross circa. 1880 (drawing by William Edward Cooke, artist from Quorn). Front cover of A Look Back at Hathern. The C13th church of St. Peter's stands in the background, and behind the Cross is a dilapidated thatched cottage

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• Cross with shaft intact and properly vertical so around 1920s. Possibly a C14th structure, a grade II listed ancient monument.

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• Drawing of Hathern Cross. Artist and date not known. A similar sketch was attached to a copy of Throsby's Excursions of Leicestershire

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• Children at Cross June 9th 1906. Note tilt of column which later collapsed. From Henton Collection 1359. A Walk Round Hathern building 1

  Can you spot all 17 children in the picture ?

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• Cross and school. Date unknown. From postcard. Note trees in front of school

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• "Hathern school opened Feb 11th 1850". A lthograph by Day and Son of London, printers to Queen Victoria

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• Early 1920s. Cyril Swift on left and Ellis Gamble

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• Cross and school. Date unknown. From postcard. Note trees in front of school

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• Market cross 1905

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• Cross. Column seems straighter than in earlier pictures - maybe socket stone re-positioned. Note tennis court in vicarage garden

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• Mr. Simpkin with pony and trap a few years since the cross was rebuilt

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