Hatchments 2


						This hatchment above the west wall depicts the three greyhounds of the Moore family of Bankhall Lancashire, and three stars below three stripes of the Dickson family. Sir John Henry More (Moore) (1754-1780) was born in Jamaica and died age 26 in Taplow. His tomb slab (shown below) is in the chancel floor. He died without heirs, so his estate passed to his sister Jane Dickson, and this hatchment is probably for her, and so would date from the early 1800s.






				Sir John Henry Moore

THE ROYAL COAT OF ARMS

Since the time of Charles II (1660) until around 1850 churches have been required to display the royal coat of arms. This one at Hitcham dates from the reign of George III and the period 1801 to 1816. The ‘normal’ royal arms here has added, at its centre, the arms of Hanover, George being of course also the Elector of Hanover.


	The hatchment depicted to the left is problematic. The description is as follows : “Argent a lion rampant or; on a canton azure seven mullets 2 2 3 impaling gules a griffins head erased between three estoiles of five points wavy or.” The most likely conclusion is that the hatchment is for Louisa Hammet nee Esdaile who died in Florence in 1816, wife of Sir Benjamin Hammet and mother-in-law of Richard Walpole. Her daughter Elizabeth Walpole had died the previous year. The right half of the hatchment is essentially the Esdaile arms, a griffin head on red between three stars. The left half of the hatchment has similar elements to the Hammet arms shown on the right of the Walpole-Hammet arms shown below, albeit not quite correct.



			Esdaile


	Walpole-Hammet


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