Tribute to viscount unveiled at church
A MEMORIAL stained glass window dedicated to a viscount said to be best remembered for shooting a hot air balloon which once flew over his North Yorkshire grouse moor, has been unveiled in Nidd Church.
Viscount Mountgarret died four years ago of a heart attack while travelling home to his 2,000-acre estate at South Stainley, near Ripon and Nidd.
Fittingly, a hot air balloon is seen in the distance on the stained glass window.
The Nidd parish magazine recalls that the 17th Viscount Mountgarret was president of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. His full name was Richard Henry Piers Butler.
The former estate home was at Nidd Hall, which was sold and is now an upmarket hotel near the parish church of Saint Paul and Saint Margaret.
“The window, which has been designed and constructed by Helen Whittaker of Barley Studios, York, depicts Saint Michael wielding his sword with the scales of justice in the other hand,” reports the Nidd Bulletin.
The hot-air balloon floating away in the distance is just one reminder of the man whose family have held the earldom of Ormonde in Ireland since the 1500s. Appropriately a cricket match and a hunting scene are also featured.
The Archdeacon of Richmond the Venerable Janet Henderson was celebrant at the window’s dedication earlier this month.
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