St James’ Church, now the Yorkshire Wolds Visitor Centre, contains three very fine sculptures by George Frampton as well as stained glass by Robert Anning Bell and a couple of bronzes in the church yard by Gilbert Bayes.
Monument to Charles Henry Wilson, 1st Baron Nunburnholme 1833-1907
Sculpted by George Frampton.
Monument to Gerald Valerian Wilson 1885-1908
Sculpted by George Frampton.
Monument to Lady Isabel Wilson 1879-1905
Sculpted by George Frampton.
Lady Isabel Wilson, daughter of 7th Duke of Roxburghe and wife of Guy Greville Wilson.
She died in childbirth aged 26.
Stained Glass
Formerly installed in the Wilson Chapel that was demolished in 1974.
One depicts Lady Isabel being carried to heaven by six angels watched by her husband.
The other window depicts the personifications of Lady Isabel’s virtues – Courage, Hope and “Love to the Death” – surrounded by child-angel musicians.
