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Norwich, Norfolk, UK

Church of St John Maddermarket

Monument to Nicholas †1540 and Agnes †1576 Sotherton. Alabaster, painted. East wall, south. Probably commissioned by his eldest son, Thomas,

The figures kneel at a prayer stool within ionic columns a supporting a pediment and under three coats of arms, one for Norwich City and one, in a wavy shield, with lion of England and Tudor roses. The final one is for Sotherton and Steward. His wife was Agnes Wright, but his eldest son, Thomas, had married Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Augustine Steward, and presumably was responsible for the commission after his mother’s death. Thomas had been elected to parliament for Norwich in 1558 and 1559.

Nicholas Sotherton had been buried in the chancel in 1540, where he was commemorated by a stone mentioned by Blomefield: ‘In the chancel: Here lieth buried the Body of master Nicholas Sutherton, latte Mayer and Alderman of this Worschipfull Cite, whiche the nerte yere after that he was Mayer, discessid out of this transeitorie Lyfe, that was the yere of our Lord 1540, the x Day of Nob. On whose Soule say yow, Jesu have Merry, For as he is so schall ye be.’
A wealthy grocer Nicholas was sheriff in 1530 Mayor in 1539 and a magistrate for twelve years. He amassed a considerable fortune, buying properties in both the Maddermarket parish (Strangers Hall), Hellesdon and Ludham.
Francis Blomefield, 'City of Norwich, chapter 42: Middle Wimer ward', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 4, the History of the City and County of Norwich, Part II (London, 1806), pp. 287-329; www.norwich-churches.org/monuments/Nicholas Sotherton 1540; Roger Virgoe, Thomas Sotherton in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981

detail of the figures

Taken on: October 14, 2016

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