Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Parr' s cottage (2)


Old Parr's Cottage, Shropshire. Engraving. Artist: James Parkes/B. Howlett. Shrewsbury Museums Service (SHYMS: FA/1995/035). Image sy1195.
Old Parr's Cottage at the Glyn in the Parish of Alberbury, Salop. This engraving appeared in Gentlemans Magazine March 1814 and shows a small timber-framed cottage with thatched roof set amongst fields and trees. Thomas Parr (?1483-1635) was buried in Westminster Abbey, with a brass to him in Wollaston church in Shropshire.