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Gift of Silver from Wightman Family

St.Mary's Parish Church in Hinckley possesses four pieces of fine seventeenth century silver, a gift of the Wightman family.

   A silver paten with foot (diameter 21.5 cm, height 4 cm, weighing 453.6 g) with a Coat of Arms and Crest and the inscription "A testimony of the goodwill of Constance Wightman, late wife of John Wightman to the Parish Church of Hinckley, 1639."

A silver paten with foot (same size as above) but weighing 340.2 g and two silver communion cups (each 21.5 cm high and 12 cm in diameter, weighing 567 g), all three with Coats of Arms and Crests and inscription: "The gift of Constance Wightman, late wife of John Wightman, to the Parish Church of Hinckley, 1659".