• The oldest surviving occurrence may be a stained glass window in the Old Library of
Trinity College, Oxford. The window is believed to have been moved from what was the chapel of Durham College, Oxford. Durham College was created for the training of Benedictine monks from
Durham Abbey. Durham College was disestablished by Henry VIII. Sir Thomas Pope purchased the site in 1555 and used it for the creation of Trinity College. Henry the VIII
attainted the Washington family by guilt of association from two associates that committed violations against the King. • The Washington Window in
Selby Abbey, in the
British market town of
Selby, contains a variant of the Washington coat of arms in the original 14th-century
stained glass. It is thought to be a benefaction to the abbey to commemorate
John Wessington,
Prior of Durham (1416–1446). The arms are distinguished from the usual Washington arms by having pierced
mullets. • The Washington coat of arms can be seen at the parish church in
Garsdon, near
Malmesbury,
Wiltshire, where a branch of the family moved in Tudor times. A Washington memorial accompanies it. • The Washington coat of arms is engraved in stone in the porch of an ancient church in the tiny
Dorset hamlet of
Steeple, a church that incidentally lacks a
steeple. The Washington coat of arms is also painted in scarlet on the roof interior, quartered with those of the squires of Steeple village, the Lawrence family, who are allied with the Washingtons by the marriage of one of its sons, Edmund Lawrence to Agnes de Wessington in 1390. • The Washington coat of arms is engraved in stone inside a side room in the
church in the small
Lancashire village of
Warton (near
Carnforth), near a pub named the George Washington. The flag of the US capital hangs prominently in the church, presented on 25 July 1977 by
Walter E. Washington (no relation), mayor of Washington, D.C., from 2 January 1975 – 2 January 1979 • The Washington coat of arms can be seen (with the colours reversed) on a memorial to
John Wessington in the cloisters of
Durham Cathedral, where he was Prior. • The Washington coat of arms is engraved in stone in the parish church of
Thrapston in
Northamptonshire. George Washington's ancestor, Sir John Washington, was mayor of the town in the seventeenth century. • The Washington coat of arms can be seen with many other coats of arms in a stained glass window in St Laurence Church in
Chorley, said to be the birthplace of
Myles Standish. • The Washington coat of arms can be seen in stone in the parish church of St John in
Wickhamford,
Worcestershire, on the grave of Penelope Washington, whose father, Colonel Henry Washington, was the first cousin of George Washington's grandfather Lawrence. The coat of arms is lozenge-shaped,
as is the custom for women in England. • The Washington coat of arms can be seen in stone on the outside of
Hylton Castle,
Sunderland, an 11th-century fortified
manor house. • The Washington coat of arms appears in a memorial to Lawrence Washington (died 1619), great-uncle of
Lawrence Washington, great-great-grandfather of George Washington, in
All Saints Church,
Maidstone. • The Washington coat of arms can be seen in a memorial window in All Saints' Church in
Maldon, Essex, where
Lawrence Washington was buried in the graveyard. • The Washington coat of arms is engraved in stone on the tomb of the first Lawrence Washington (died 1619) in the
chancel of
Great Brington's parish church of St Mary. • The Washington coat of arms is placed prominently above the entrance door at
Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire, the home built in 1560 by Lawrence Washington (d. 1584) George Washington's direct ancestor. The family coat of arms can also be seen in stained glass panels in the Great Hall which show marriage arms of several families that married into the Washington family. These are copies of the original stained glass windows, which were moved into the
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Fawsley. • The Washington coat of arms, quartered with that of Kitson, whose family married into that of Washington, can be seen in a stained glass window in
Hengrave Hall in Suffolk. • The Washington coat of arms appears with many other coats of arms in the main east stained glass window of
St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere (
Cumbria), in the fifth light from the left, on the top row. • The Washington coat of arms appears in stone on the grave of a James Washington (d. 1580) in the north chapel of the parish church of Saint Laurence in
Adwick le Street,
South Yorkshire, where he was lord of the manor. However, there is no proven ancestral link between him and George Washington. • Reverend Godfrey Washington, the great-uncle of George Washington, who died on 28 September 1729 is buried in
Little St Mary's Church,
Cambridge. His memorial is on the north wall close to the main door. ==See also==