G O R D O N C H A P E L

This window depicts St Ursula and in the panel below Visiting the Sick. St Ursula (Fifth Century) was born in Britanny, the daughter of a Christian King. According to legend she was endowed with great beauty and high intelligence. She refused to be married and only did so after Prince Conon, son of Agrippus, King of England, agreed to her extreme demands, not least that he and all his court should become Christians, for she refused to marry a heathen, and that before marriage she be allowed three years to visit the shrines of the Christian saints. Conon joined her on the pilgrimage to Rome and on the return journey they found the city of Cologne being besieged by the Huns. All of Ursula's party, including the eleven thousand maidens in her retinue, were slaughtered. The leader of the Huns offered to spare her if she became his bride and when she refused, he drew his bow and drove three arrows into her body. The window was installed as a memorial to Frances Harriet Duchess of Richmond and Gordon (1824-1887), the wife of the 6th Duke of Richmond and 1st of Gordon.

The Inscription at the bottom reads:

Frances Harriet Duchess of Richmond died march viii mdccclxxxvii