The inscriptions read:
Here lies dear Jo: his parents love and joy
That most pretty and ingenuous boy
His matchless soul is not yet forgotten
Tho here the lovely body dead and rotten
Ages to come may wonder at his fame
And here his death by shameful malice came
How spightful some did use him and how rude
Grife will not let me write but now conclude
To God for ever all praise be given
Since we hope he is with him in Heaven
IA 23 December 1716
and
From Earth we came to Earth we must return
Witness this Earth that lies within this urn
Begot by Earth born also of Earth’s womb
74 years lived Earth now Earth’s his tomb
But from this Earth to Heaven Earth’s soul is gone
Roger Earth Armiger
Obit 3rd Die Aprilis 1634
ST MARY. A dignified church with the crossing tower as its centre, essentially Dec, but with older and younger parts. The oldest feature is the N doorway. One order of shafts with a trumpet capital on the l., a crocket capital on the r. Double-chamfered pointed arch, i.e. c.1200. Late C13 transepts. In the E wall of the S transept a lancet, in that of the N transept three stepped lancets. Then the Dec style. The nave has a three-light W window of stepped cusped lancet lights. The crossing has arches of two chamfers dying into the imposts and a vault with diagonal and ridge ribs. In the corners the Signs of the Evangelists. The top of the crossing tower is Perp. The light and airy chancel has a five-light E window with cusped intersected tracery and a blank pointed quatrefoil in the gable connected with the window below as if it were the finial of an ogee arch. The N and S windows are large, of three lights, with reticulated tracery. Double piscina with ogee arches. Wagon roof, ceiled, with bosses. Restoration by Butterfield, 1873-5 (P. Thompson). - FONT. Square, of Purbeck marble, with the usual shallow blank arches. On the W and N sides they show that they are Norman, on the E and E sides they have been re-cut about 1300. - STAINED GLASS. Original fragments in the chancel NE and SE windows. - PLATE. Cup and Paten Cover, 1576; Paten and Flagon, 1730. - MONUMENTS. A number of worthwhile tablets from 1695 to 1773.
Dinton. It has a dark little lane which brings us to Dinton Beeches, and an ancient British fort. It has a cottage in which a friend of Milton is said to have been born, and a house which was the home of a great historic figure. Its church, reached by a path arched over by tall yews, has been here 700 years, with a central tower and a pointed doorway with carved capitals. An old scratch-dial is on the walls. The doorway opens into a lofty nave linked with the chancel by an impressive group of tower arches, with a vaulted roof resting on corbels carved with the symbols of the Four Evangelists. The chancel has seven windows with beautiful 14th century tracery, and the square grey font with little arches round it is as old as the church.
The ancient house at one end of the village was the home of Edward Hyde, first Lord Clarendon, who was born here in 1609. The author of The History of the Great Rebellion, who became Lord Chancellor under Charles the Second and whose daughter Anne married the Duke of York, afterwards James the Second, and was the mother of two queens, Mary the Second, wife of William of Orange, and Queen Anne.
Dinton was also the birthplace, in 1596, of the musician Henry Lawes who invited Milton to write the masque Camus, for which he himself composed the music, and in which he played the part of the Attendant Spirit when it was first performed at Ludlow Castle, and Milton honoured him with the lines:
The ancient house at one end of the village was the home of Edward Hyde, first Lord Clarendon, who was born here in 1609. The author of The History of the Great Rebellion, who became Lord Chancellor under Charles the Second and whose daughter Anne married the Duke of York, afterwards James the Second, and was the mother of two queens, Mary the Second, wife of William of Orange, and Queen Anne.
Dinton was also the birthplace, in 1596, of the musician Henry Lawes who invited Milton to write the masque Camus, for which he himself composed the music, and in which he played the part of the Attendant Spirit when it was first performed at Ludlow Castle, and Milton honoured him with the lines:
Harry, whose tuneful and well measured song
First taught our English music how to span
Words with just note and accent - not to scan
With Midas ears, committing short and long.
First taught our English music how to span
Words with just note and accent - not to scan
With Midas ears, committing short and long.
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