Double canopy and inscription mutilated and partly hidden under pews. Near the lecturn is this inscription: On a fayre bleu stone the pourtraytures in brass of Sr. Thomas Massingbred in his armour complete and his wife. The inscription on the draft once read: Sr. Thmoas Massingbred, knight, and Dame Johan his wyfe specalye desyers all reasonabull creatures of your charyte to give lawde adn pray unto...queen of everlasting with... About 150 years later this slab was used to commemorate Sir Thomas Massingbred, knight of the religious order of St. John of Jerusalem and his wife Joan. Sir John died in 1552. He is buried in the church."
From Bontell:
This Sir Thomas Massyngberd [sic] lived at a period considerably later than the evident date of this fine brass, which bears his name.
The knight's effigy is very similar to the fine effigies of Sir Reginald Braybroke and Sir Nicholas Hawberke, at Cobham, in Kent. The hauberk and camail both have a border formed of small bunches of rings. The collar of SS, is worn by both the lady and the knight.
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Scholarly Notes Inscription near lectern in church: "On a fayre bleu stone the portraytures in brass of Sr. Thomas Massingbred in his armour complete and his wife."
Mutilated inscription once read: "Sr. Thomas Massingbred, knight, and Dame Johan his wyfe specaly desyers all reasonabull creatures of your charyte to give lawde and prays unto...queen of everlasting life with..."
Brass later used (in mid-16th c.) to commemorate Sir Thomas Massingbred of the Knights of St. John (Hospitallers), d. 1552, and his wife Joan.
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Man and wife of the Massingberd family 1400 (both with ss collars) brass appropriated in 1522 and given a fresh inscription to Sir Thomas and Joan Massyngberde

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Sir Thomas Massingberd
1405
St Nicholas' Church, Gunby, Lincolnshire, England