Pre-history
Persons from the 7th Century
Persons from the Middle Ages
Some lesser mortals from the Middle Ages
Prior
Thomas de Melsonby
Local Rhyme
Booklets
Prior Thomas de Melsonby
likeness
- career - seal - architectural
work
One of his Coldingham seals has been incorporated into the logo carried on the street name plates in Coldingham.
SIGILLVM:THOME:PRIORIS:DE:COLDINGHA
[The seal of Thomas, Prior of Coldingham]
The Priors were free to design their own seals. As the Priory Church at
Coldingham was dedicated to St Mary, often its Priors had Mary and Child
on their seals. In the case of the seal shown, there is a side scroll
to make it clear that the figure is Mary. Usually she holds the Christ
Child, but in this case the Child is represented by a cross surmounting
a sphere.