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Updated: May 27, 2025
The east end of this aisle is divided from the rest by an ancient wooden screen so as to form a chapel, and beneath this is the vault where the former owners of Bolton the Claphams and Mauleverers were buried.
Inquiring further, I found that it was the Clapham family, and another that was called Morley, that were so buried; and then it occurred to me that this was the vault Wordsworth refers to in one of his poems, the burial-place of the Claphams and Mauleverers, whose skeletons, for aught I know, were even then standing upright under our feet. It is but a narrow place, perhaps a square of ten feet.
Some years ago, when the floor was being repaired, their coffins were found standing upright, whereof the poet tells us: "Through the chinks in the fractured floor Look down and see a grisly sight A vault where the bodies are buried upright There, face by face and hand by hand. The Claphams and Mauleverers stand."
Inquiring further, I found that it was the Clapham family, and another that was called Morley, that were so buried; and then it occurred to me that this was the vault Wordsworth refers to in one of his poems, the burial-place of the Claphams and Mauleverers, whose skeletons, for aught I know, were even then standing upright under our feet. It is but a narrow place, perhaps a square of ten feet.
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