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Addlethorpe, St Nicholas, North Chapel, Monument
Addlethorpe, St Nicholas, North Chapel, Monument
Addlethorpe, St Nicholas, North Chapel, Monument

"In the north chapel a small brass wall plaque to Mary Andrews d.1728 with Memento Mori in plain ashlar surround"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359681?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 September 2022

Addlethorpe, Saint Nicholas, Church, Image, Mary Andrews
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Milnes)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Milnes)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Milnes)

Memorial to Elizabeth the infant daughter of John L. & Frances Milnes died 5 January 1829.

Presumably transferred from the old St Peters when the church was re-built in 1868. 

DB 23 September 2021

Aisthorpe, Saint Peter, Church, image, monument, Milnes
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Roberts)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Roberts)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Roberts)

In memory of George Roberts Gent. who died 1st July 1760.

Presumably transferred from the old St Peters when the church was re-built in 1868.

DB 23 September 2021

Aisthorpe, Saint Peter, Church, image, monument
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Roberts)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Roberts)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Roberts)

In memory of Winifred Roberts d.1907 and HDR Roberts d.1892 of Thorpe.

DB 23 September 2021

Aisthorpe, Saint Peter, Church, image, monument
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Townsend)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Townsend)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Townsend)

Memorial to Sidney Townsend "killed in action near Ypres, Belgium 13 May 1915"

His brother Walter Townsend a casualty of the Boxer Rebellion commemorated nearby.

DB 23 September 2021

Aisthorpe, Saint Peter, Church, image, monument, Townsend
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Townsend)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Townsend)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorial (Townsend)

Memorial to Walter Townsend "severely wounded during the siege of the Legations at Pekin, China".

"The Battle of Beijing, or historically the Relief of Peking, was the battle fought on 14-15 August 1900 in Beijing, in which the Eight-Nation Alliance relieved the siege of the Beijing Legation Quarter during the Boxer Rebellion. From 20 June 1900, Boxers and Imperial Chinese Army troops had besieged foreign diplomats, citizens and soldiers within the legations of Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Spain and the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Peking_(1900) 

DB 23 September 2021

Aisthorpe, Saint Peter, Church, image, monument, Walter Townsend, Boxer Rebellion
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorials
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorials
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Memorials

A group of three memorials on the south side of the nave towards the west end which seem to have been transferred from the old St Peters when the church was re-built in 1868.

DB 23 September 2021

Aisthorpe, Saint Peter, Church, image
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Monument (Mangles)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Monument (Mangles)
Aisthorpe, St Peter, Monument (Mangles)

Memorial to Rev. Timothy Mangles a former Rector d.1803.

Presumably transferred from the old St Peters when the church was re-built in 1868.

DB 23 September 2021

Aisthorpe, Saint Peter, Church, image, monument, Timothy Mangles
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument

This monument in the chancel is to Sir Robert Christopher (died 1668) and his wife.

December 2014

Alford, St Wilfrid church, Sir Robert Christopher memorial
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument

This monument of Derbyshire alabaster is a dominant feature in the chancel. Sir Robert Christopher and his wife lie on a black marble slab atop a tomb chest surrounded by original spiked railings that are shaped like irises. Both wear splendid footwear; he lies on a paliasse and their heads are supported on plump cushions.

Jean Howard 30 March 2024

Alford, St Wilfrid church, Christopher monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument

Lady Elizabeth Christopher wears a hood tied beneath her chin.

Jean Howard 30 March 2024

Alford, St Wilfrid church, Christopher monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument

Sir Robert died in 1667 leaving a bequest which founded the town’s almshouses. He is shown wearing a fashionable periwig.

Jean Howard 30 March 2024

Alford, St Wilfrid church
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument

The side panels of the altar style monument are richly decorated and retain much of the original colour and gilding. There are swags at the corners and this (west) end has a coat of arms.

Jean Howard 30 March 2024

Alford, St Wilfrid church
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument

The coat of arms includes this helmet.

Jean Howard 30 March 2024

Alford, St Wilfrid church
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Christopher Monument

The tablet on the wall above is framed by swags of fruit suspended on gilded ribbons.

Jean Howard 30 March 2024

Alford, St Wilfrid church
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Memorial (Tonge)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Memorial (Tonge)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Memorial (Tonge)

"IN MEMORY OF THOMAS WRIGHT TONGE, ESQUIRE, A NATIVE OF GAINSBOROUGHI, AND FOR UPWARDS OF TWENTY YEARS AN EMINENT MEDICAL PRACTITIONER AT THIS PLACE. HE DIED ON THE 7TH OF JANUARY 1854 IN THE 81ST YEAR OF HIS AGE. DEEPLY REGRETTED, AND MUCH RESPECTED BY A LARGE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.

"BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH, AND I WILL GIVE THEE A CROWN OF LIFE" REV. 11 CHAP. VERSE 10"

DB 21 September 2024

Alford, Saint Wilfrid Church, Thomas Wright Tonge
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Memorials (Graves & Riley)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Memorials (Graves & Riley)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Memorials (Graves & Riley)

Two more recent memorials :-

"Remember before God FRANK  GRAVES. Organist and Choirmaster from 1897 to 1964"

"Remember before God Frank Riley organist here between 1983 - 2013"

 

DB 21 September 2024

Alford, Saint Wilfrid Church
Alford, St Wilfrid, Nave, Memorial (Key)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Nave, Memorial (Key)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Nave, Memorial (Key)

A brass plate in the floor :- 

"HERE AND NIGH UNTO THIS PLACE LIETH THE BODY OF MR WILLM KEY WHO DIED MAY YE 7 1753 AGED 61. ALSO MRS ELIZH, KEY HIS WIFE WHO DIED DECR 20 1761AGED 67. ALSO MR THOS KEY SON OF THE ABOVE WILLM AND ELIZ KEY, WHO DIED FEB 27 1764 AGED, 47. ALSO MARY KEY DAUGHTER OF THOS AND DOROTHY KEY WHO DIED MAY YE 30 1765, AGED 2 YEARS"

DB 21 September 2024

Alford, Saint Wilfrid Church
Alford, St Wilfrid, North Chapel, Memorial (Duckering)
Alford, St Wilfrid, North Chapel, Memorial (Duckering)
Alford, St Wilfrid, North Chapel, Memorial (Duckering)

"In Memory of SAMUEL DUCKERING, Who was Lay-Rector of this Parish 39 Years; And departed this Life The 9th day of March 1800, in the 55th Year of his Age"

DB 21 September 2024

Alford, Saint Wilfrid Church, SAMUEL DUCKERING
Alford, St Wilfrid, Outer North Aisle, Memorial (Carnley)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Outer North Aisle, Memorial (Carnley)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Outer North Aisle, Memorial (Carnley)

Close to the altar in the north aisle St Laurence chapel is this tablet giving a detailed family tree of the Carnley family whose later members are buried at nearby Bilsby.

Jean Howard 30 March 2024

Alford, St Wilfrid church, Carnley
Alford, St Wilfrid, Outer North Aisle, Memorial (Dewsnop)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Outer North Aisle, Memorial (Dewsnop)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Outer North Aisle, Memorial (Dewsnop)

Dewsnop tablet.

This reads: In Memory of/ EMMANL DEWSNOP, Clerk,/ who was Vicar of this Church 48 Years/ And Departed this Life April ye 11th 1753/ Aged 87 Years./ Also of/ MERCY his Wife, who died May ye 17th 1747/ Aged 79 Years./ They had seven Children, two of which, viz./ JOHN and MERCY, lie interr’d with them/ near this Place; And the only surviving Ones,/ CHARLES, JOSHUA and MARTHA,/ out of Due Regard to their Memory,/ have erected this monument./ Blessed are the dead which die In the Lord;/ for they rest from their Labours: Rev:14:13:Verse. 

Jean Howard 30 March 2024

Alford, St Wilfrid church, Dewsnop
Alford, St Wilfrid, Outer North Aisle, Memorial (Lake)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Outer North Aisle, Memorial (Lake)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Outer North Aisle, Memorial (Lake)

"NEAR unto this place Lyeth amongft Her Ancefters, the Body of ELIZABETH LAKE, who Departed this Life May the 19th 1752. Aged 21 Years and 5 Months.

Preferve me, O God : for in thee have I put my Truft ... "

DB 21 September 2024

Alford, Saint Wilfrid Church, Elizabeth Lake
Alford, St Wilfrid, Outer North Aisle, Memorial (Portas)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Outer North Aisle, Memorial (Portas)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Outer North Aisle, Memorial (Portas)

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MRS MARY PORTAS, OF THIS TOWN;  WHO DIED OCTOBER 6TH 1869, AGED 84 YEARS. HER REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN A VAULT IN BILSBY CHURCHYARD, NEAR THIS TOWN.

IN AFFECTIONATE AND RESPECTFUL REMEMBRANCE OF A HUMBLE CHRISTIAN, WHO WAS A DEVOTEDLY FAITHFUL AND ATTACHED SERVANT AND FRIEND TO FOUR GENERATIONS OF THE FAMILY OF SIBTHORP, OF CANWICK. HALL, IN THIS COUNTY. THIS TABLET IS PLACED BY MARIA WALDO SIBTHORP, AND HENRY A.M. WALDO SIBTHORP, THE WIDOW AND YOUNGEST SON OF COLONEL CHARLES DE LAET WALDO SIBTHORP.

"WHAT DOTH THE LORD REQUIRE OF THEE, BUT TO DO JUSTLY, AND TO LOVE MERCY, AND TO WALK HUMBLY WITH THY GOD?" MICAH, VI_8.

"THAT I MAY WIN CHRIST, AND BE FOUND IN HIM, NOT HAVING MINE OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH IS OF THE LAW, BUT THAT WHICH IS THROUGH THE FAITH OF CHRIST. PHILIPNS III_8.9."

DB 21 September 2024

Alford, Saint Wilfrid Church, Mary Portas
Alford, St Wilfrid, Outer North Aisle, Memorial (Williamson)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Outer North Aisle, Memorial (Williamson)
Alford, St Wilfrid, Outer North Aisle, Memorial (Williamson)

"To the Memory of THOMAS WILLIAMSON Gent: who Died on the 28th Day of March 1766, in the 74th Year of his Age.

This Monument is erected by his Widow.

SHE died on the 26th Day of June 1778, In the 86. Year of her Age."

DB 21 September 2024

Alford, Saint Wilfrid Church, Williamson
Alford, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Memorial (Blank)
Alford, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Memorial (Blank)
Alford, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Memorial (Blank)

In the south aisle this illegible scrolled tablet with a female bust is thought to date from the 17th century and to be for a member of the Tiptoft family.

Jean Howard 30 March 2024

Alford, St Wilfrid church
Alford, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Memorial (Harby)
Alford, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Memorial (Harby)
Alford, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Memorial (Harby)

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF RICHARD HARBY. ESQUIRE, WHO DIED ON THE IST DAY OF JULY. 1822: IN THE 66TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.

ALSO OF MARTHA, HIS WIFE. WHO DIED ON THE 18TH DAY OF JULY 1812: AGED 62.)

DB 21 September 2024

Alford, Saint Wilfrid Church, Harby Memorial
Alford, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Memorial (Rear)
Alford, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Memorial (Rear)
Alford, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Memorial (Rear)

John Rear was born at Kirkby Laythorpe c1781. He lived and worked in Alford as a builder and joiner. On the Poll Book list for 1852 he called himself a gentleman.

ERECTED IN MEMORY OF/ JOHN REAR/ WHO DIED AT ALFORD 3RD NOVEMBER1854./ THE DECEASED BUILT A SCHOOL HOUSE FOR THE/ SOLE PURPOSE OF EDUCATING THE POOR GIRLS/ OF ALFORD AND THE ADJOINING PARISHES./ IN ADDITION TO ERECTING THE ABOVE SCHOOL/ HE ENDOWED IT WITH EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS/ WHICH SUM WAS PLACED/ IN THE HANDS OF THE GOVERNORS/ OF THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, TO BE BY THEM/ AND THEIR SUCCESSORS, APPLIED FOR THE BENEFIT/ OF THE SAID SCHOOL FOREVER.

Jean Howard 30 March 2024

Alford, St Wilfrid church, John Rear
Alford, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Memorials (Daubney & Wayet)
Alford, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Memorials (Daubney & Wayet)
Alford, St Wilfrid, South Aisle, Memorials (Daubney & Wayet)

Daubney plaque and Wayet tablet.

The metal plaque explains the dedication of the window to the right; the marble tablet details a charitable bequest. The wording is as follows:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ MARY MARTIN DAUBNEY,/ ELDEST DAUGHTER OF CHARLES COLLYER DAUBNEY/ AND MARY MARTIN ALLENBY HIS WIFE BOTH OF ALFORD/ AND RELICT OF THE LATE/ RICHARD WAUGH WRIGHT OF LONDON/ BORN IN ALFORD OCT 7 1811 DIED MANCHESTER FEB 9 1864./ THIS WINDOW IS ERECTED BY THEIR DEVOTED DAUGHTER. ‘So He gave His beloved sleep.’

Mrs Mary Wayet of Stamford in the County of Lincoln/ Widow, by Will dated 3rd October 1831 bequeathed to/ the Minister and Churchwardens of the Parish of/ Alford in the said County of Lincoln the sum of/ Four (?) hundred pounds to be by them & their successors/ Minister and Churchwardens for the time being of the/ said Parish placed out and continued at interest in/ their Names in such Security as they shall think pro-/ per and the Interest thereof to be paid or applied at/ their discretion or for the benefit of the Poor of/ the said Parish of Alford on Saint Paul’s day in/ every Year.

Jean Howard 30 March 2024

Alford, St Wilfrid church, Daubney Wayet
Allington, Holy Trinity, Monument (Clarke)
Allington, Holy Trinity, Monument (Clarke)
Allington, Holy Trinity, Monument (Clarke)

"South side of chancel has ornate marble monument to Thomas and Car. Williamson, 1690"

"Plaque of 1656 to Robert Clarke"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062909 

Church Guide states that it was Rev'd Robert Clarke, Rector here from 1616 to 1656, who repaired the south wall with brick, at his own expense, the cost being £108.

Also during his time the Jacobean pulpit and the Jacobean front of the gallery were installed.

DB 3 November 2018

Allington, Holy Trinity, Church, Monument
Allington, Holy Trinity, Nave
Allington, Holy Trinity, Nave
Allington, Holy Trinity, Nave

Welby family monuments.

DB 3 November 2018

Allington, Holy Trinity, Church, Monument
Alvingham, St Adelwold, Monument (Emeris)
Alvingham, St Adelwold, Monument (Emeris)
Alvingham, St Adelwold, Monument (Emeris)

"Grey and white marble monument with urn to John Emeris, died 1835"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063076 

DB 8 September 2019

Alvingham, Saint Adelwold, church, John Emeris
Alvingham, St Adelwold, Monument (Yerburgh)
Alvingham, St Adelwold, Monument (Yerburgh)
Alvingham, St Adelwold, Monument (Yerburgh)

Arthur Mee states :-

"For a hundred years St Adelwold's church was closed and neglected, but in 1933 it was beautifully restored in memory of Robert Armstrong Yerburgh, MP, who died in 1916.

DB 8 September 2019

Alvingham, Saint Adelwold, church
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)

Monument to Captain William Kent Allix, who fell at the Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War.

Mark Acton, 2016

Ancaster, St Martin, Memorial, William Kent Allix, Crimean War
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)

"C19 wall plaques to the Allix family of Sudbrook Hall in the chancel"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062422?section=official-list-entry 

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARY SOPHIA THE WIFE OF F. W. ALLIX, J.P., D.L. OF WILLOUGHBY, BORN 15TH JANUARY 1820, DIED 16TH SEPTEMBER 1910."

DB 18 January 2024 

Ancaster, Saint Martin church image, ALLIX
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)

"C19 wall plaques to the Allix family of Sudbrook Hall in the chancel"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062422?section=official-list-entry  

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES HAMMOND ALLIX LIEUT: IN THE GRENADIER GUARDS, AND ELDEST SON OF CHARLES AND MARY ELIZABETH ALLIX, WHO DIED 28TH. JANY. 1830. IN THE 21ST. YEAR OF HIS AGE. FROM THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH, HE WAS THE PRIDE, THE COMFORT, AND THE HAPPINESS OF HIS FAMILY.

"The Lord gave,& the Lord hath taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord""

DB 18 January 2024 

Ancaster, Saint Martin church image, CHARLES HAMMOND ALLIX
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Allix)

"In LOVING MEMORY OF FREDERICK WILLIAM ALLIX, J.P., D.L. OF WILLOUGHBY. BORN 11TH APRIL 1816. DIED 13TH OCTOBER 1894.

BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD."

DB 18 January 2024 

Ancaster, Saint Martin church
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Newton)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Newton)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Memorial (Newton)

South wall of the chancel. 

"IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF WILLIAM G. T. NEWTON, (LATE OF RAUCEBY LODGE IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN) SON OF WILLIAM AND SARAH NEWTON, OF SUDBROOKE HEATH IN THIS PARISH, WHO DIED AT THE MANOR, OLDCOTES, NOTTS, NOVEMBER 12TH 1873, AGED 38 YEARS."

DB 18 January 2024 

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, WILLIAM G. T. NEWTON
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Monument (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Monument (Allix)
Ancaster, St Martin, Chancel, Monument (Allix)

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MARY CATHERINE ELIZABETH ALLIX WHO DIED MARCH ?? 1842(?) WIFE OF COLONEL CHARLES ALLIX ?? GRENADIER GUARDS BY WHOM THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED ... "

DB 25 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, Allix
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Brown)

"Sacred to the Memory of Mr WILLM. BROWN GENT late of this Parish. He departed this Life Sepr, 1st, 1781 ... "

DB 18 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, William Brown
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Brown)

"In Memory of THOMAS BROWN, GENT. late of Willoughby Cottage in this Parish, who died the 13th of August, 1822, in the 66th Year of His Age"

DB 18 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, THOMAS BROWN
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Towne)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Towne)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Memorial (Towne)

"Sacred to the Memory of BENJ. TOWNE (?) late of Grantham who departed this life the 14th. of Sep 1759 Aged 78"

DB 18 January 2024 

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, monument
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Monument (Long)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Monument (Long)
Ancaster, St Martin, North Aisle, Monument (Long)

This tablet with fine trumpeting angel is on the wall of the north aisle and commemorates Elizabeth Long who died in 1743. She was wife of Edward Long.

April 2016

Ancaster, St Martin church, monument, Elizabeth Long, angel, Edward Long
Ancaster, St Martin, Porch, Grave Cover
Ancaster, St Martin, Porch, Grave Cover
Ancaster, St Martin, Porch, Grave Cover

Within the porch stand two 14th century grave covers depicting priests. This one has his hands clasped in prayer.

May 2015

Ancaster, St Martin church, grave cover
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Blagg)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Blagg)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Blagg)

"Near this place lyeth the Body of JOHN BLAGG Gent. (who was Grandson to Mrs, MARY BLAGG, and Nephew to the late JOHN HERRING Esq.) who departed this life the 22 Day of March 1742 In the 21 year of his Age"

DB 18 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, JOHN BLAGG
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Brown)

West end of the south aisle.

Elizabeth Brown d.1764 and her husband John Brown "of Willoughby in this Parish Yeoman"

DB 18 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Brown)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Brown)

In Memory of Thomas Brown d.1796 and Mary Brown d.1765

DB 18 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, Thomas Brown
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Calcraft)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Calcraft)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Calcraft)

"IN MEMORY OF JOHN CHARLES LUCAS CALCRAFT ESQRE OF ANCASTER HALL, WHO DIED 29TH OF MARCH 1851, IN THE 81ST YEAR OF HIS AGE. 

AND ALSO OF HIS WIFE SOPHIA LUCAS CALCRAFT, WHO DIED 30TH OF MAY 1837, IN THE 69TH YEAR OF HER AGE"

DB 18 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, CALCRAFT
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Lucas-Calcraft)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Lucas-Calcraft)
Ancaster, St Martin, South Aisle, Memorial (Lucas-Calcraft)

East end of south aisle above the altar.

"In Memory of MRS CHRISTIAN LUCAS, the WIFE of ANTHONY LUCAS Esq. Of Ancaster-Hall: the Former of whom died 24 Jan, 1784 Aged 49: the Latter 29June 1789 Aged 63.

Also of their Sons, GEORGE and ANTHONY LUCAS-CALCRAFT, Esq. the Former of whom died the 29 Aug. 1789 Aged 23: the Latter, 25 April 1792 Aged 23.

And of JOHN the Son of Lieut General THOMAS CALCRAFT, who died 10 March 1767 Aged 1"

DB 18 January 2024

Ancaster, Saint Martin church, Lucas-Calcraft
Anwick, St Edith, memorial
Anwick, St Edith, memorial
Anwick, St Edith, memorial

Monuments and tablets honouring parish clergy are common in churches. This prominent memorial in the Anwick church commemorating Henry Ashington is unusual in that he died in France, presumably on holiday.

April 2018

Anwick, St Edith, memorial, Henry Ashington
Anwick, St Edith, Monument (Ashington)
Anwick, St Edith, Monument (Ashington)
Anwick, St Edith, Monument (Ashington)

Memorial to Midshipman Alfred Angelo Ashington, son of the Vicar of Anwick, who died along with some 480 other members of the crew of HMS Captain which sank on 7 September 1870. It is located in the north aisle.

Mark Acton, 2018

Anwick, Ashington, HMS Captain
Anwick, St Edith, Monument (Gardiner)
Anwick, St Edith, Monument (Gardiner)
Anwick, St Edith, Monument (Gardiner)

"In the south aisle a wall plaque to Gerard Gardiner, d.1742, debased Corinthian columns supporting a segmental pediment with fluted keyblock, cherub and flaming urn"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061829 

DB 21 December 2018

Anwick, Saint Edith, monument, Gerard Gardiner
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF THE REV. JAMES GARVEY, M.A. FOR 43 YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, WHO DIED JUNE 2OTH 1893. AND OF MARY HIS BELOVED WIFE WHO DIED SEPT 26TH 1880. THIS TABLET HAS BEEN ERECTED IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE BY THEIR CHILDREN"

DB 10 December 2023

Ashby cum Fenby, Saint Peter Church, image, JAMES GARVEY
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial

"Sacred to the Memory of The Revd JOHN GRANTHAM, Vicar of CADNEY,and WAYTHE in this COUNTY, and for nearly forty years Curate of this Parish. And of ELIZABETH, his Wife. She died July the 2nd 1819, Aged 61, He April the 14th1820, Aged 70. They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their deaths were not long divided"

DB 10 December 2023

Ashby cum Fenby, Saint Peter Church, image
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Monument (Drury)
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Monument (Drury)
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Chancel, Monument (Drury)

The monument to Suzanna Drury, who died in 1606, is on the north wall of the chancel.

The details of the surround tally with the Jacobean date, but the effigy and also the hounds which support the sarcophagus lid and wreaths are considered to be replacements dating from c.1700 (Pevsner).

August 2014

Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Suzanna Drury
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Nave, Memorial

"TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM WRIGHT, KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE, APRIL 16th 1916. AGED 19 YEARS.

 https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/53515

DB 10 December 2023

Ashby cum Fenby, Saint Peter Church, image, WILLIAM WRIGHT, war memorial
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, North Aisle, Monument (Wray)
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, North Aisle, Monument (Wray)
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, North Aisle, Monument (Wray)

"fine mid C17 standing ashlar monument bearing traces of painting to Sir William Wray (died 1616) and Lady Frances Wray (died 1647)"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346925?section=official-list-entry 

August 2014

Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Lady Frances Wray, Sir William Wray
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Tower, Effigy
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Tower, Effigy
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Tower, Effigy

This effigy of a knight, lying cross-legged, dates from the early 14th century.

It is located on the south side of the church near the west end.

August 2014

Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Tower, Effigy
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Tower, Effigy
Ashby cum Fenby, St Peter, Tower, Effigy

"in tower a good early C14 knight effigy with legs crossed and lion at feet"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346925?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 December 2023

Ashby cum Fenby, Saint Peter Church, image, knight effigy
Ashby Puerorum, St Andrew, Brass
Ashby Puerorum, St Andrew, Brass
Ashby Puerorum, St Andrew, Brass

"On the south nave wall are brasses of a male and female figure with further C13 brasses of shields, smaller figures and inscription to Richard Lytleburye, his wife and family, 1521 and 1523"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147719

Kelley's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 states

"Stainsby, which is a farm, now occupied by Mr. E. S. Clarke, was formerly a seat of the Littlebury family"

DB 9 September 2018

Ashby Puerorum, Saint Andrew, Church, brass, Richard Lytleburye, Littlebury
Ashby Puerorum, St Andrew, Brass
Ashby Puerorum, St Andrew, Brass
Ashby Puerorum, St Andrew, Brass

On the south nave wall C16 brass of a knight in armour.

DB 9 September 2018

Ashby Puerorum, Saint Andrew, Church, brass
Aswarby, St Denys, Chancel, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Chancel, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Chancel, Memorial

"In the chancel is a marble wall plaque to Frances Hope, d.1704, rectangular with scrolled and draped sides, gadrooned base with escutcheon of arms and a moulded cornice bearing flowers and an urn"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360619?section=official-list-entry 

Kelly's Directory 1930 notes "in the chancel is a marble tablet to the Rev. Francis Hopes, a former rector, d. 1704"

DB 26 May 2024

Aswarby, Saint Denis Church, Frances Hope
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, George Bass Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, George Bass Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, George Bass Memorial

A memorial to George Bass, explorer, who was baptised in the church in 1771.

Mark Acton, 2017

Aswarby, George Bass, memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, George Bass Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, George Bass Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, George Bass Memorial

The inscription on the memorial to George Bass.

June 2017

Aswarby, St Denis, George Bass
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, Memorial

This fine relief is a memorial to Lady Whichcote (d.1849) by Thomas Campbell*.

June 2017

* Thomas Campbell (1790-1858) renowned Scottish sculptor

Aswarby, St Denis, monument, Lady Whichcote, Thomas Campbell
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, Memorial

"WILLIAM PEACH, DIED THE 19TH DAY OF JANUARY 1835 AGED 74 YEARS.

HE WAS STEWARD IN THE WHICHCOTE FAMILY UPWARDS OF FORTY YEARS, AND SECURED THEIR AFFECTIONATE RESPECT BY FULFILLING THE DUTIES OF HIS STATION WITH UNDEVIATING FIDELITY, RECTITUDE OF PURPOSE, AND PROPRIETY OF CONDUCT.

THIS FAITHFUL TESTIMONY TO HIS MERITS IS INSCRIBED BY PERMISSION OF THOSE GRATEFUL RELATIONS WHO ERECT THIS TABLET TO HIS MEMORY.

BLESSED IS THAT SERVANT WHOM HIS LORD, WHEN HE COMETH, SHALL FIND SO DOING. XXIV MATT 46"

DB 26 May 2024

Aswarby, Saint Denis Church, WILLIAM PEACH
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, Memorial

"To the Memory of ELIZABETH, second Wife of WILLIAM WHITE (his first being interred at Gainsborough) who died 24th March 1767 Aged 34 Years.

Also of ELIZABETH, third Wife of said WILLIAM WHITE, who died 12th February 1789, Aged 50 Years.

Likewise of the said WILLIAM WHITE who died 27th April 1811, Aged 92 Years."

DB 26 May 2024

Aswarby, Saint Denis Church
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, Memorial

"IN Memory of STEPHEN BEE GENT: late Steward to Sr. Francis Whichcote Bart. who departed this Life 20TH of June 1766 Aged 65 Years.

Also Abigail His Wife who departed this Life 10TH of January 1768 Aged 77 Years"

DB 26 May 2024

Aswarby, Saint Denis Church, STEPHEN BEE
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, Nave, Memorial

"Near this Place lyeth ye body of mr Robert Cole, who Departed this life August ye 21st 1717, in ye 50th year of his Age. in Remembrance of him this Stone is Erected by his Lamenting Widdow Mrs Anne Cole, who hopes to rejoice together with him in a happy Resurrection he had by his Wife Mrs Anne Cole 2 Sons and 3 Daughters"

DB 26 May 2024

Aswarby, Saint Denis Church
Aswarby, St Denys, North Aisle, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, North Aisle, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, North Aisle, Memorial

"To the Memory of FRANCIS WHICHCOTE of TIMBERLAND THORPE ESQR. youngest Son of SIR FRANCIS WHICHCOTE BART. and DAME FRANCES his Wife who died Octr: 19th: 1784 Aged 46."

DB 26 May 2024

Aswarby, Saint Denis Church
Aswarby, St Denys, North Aisle, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, North Aisle, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, North Aisle, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF SIR THOMAS WHICHCOTE, OF ASWARBY, CO. LINCOLN, BARONET. WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 22ND 1828, AGED 66 YEARS:

ALSO OF DAME DIANA, HIS WIFE, WHO DIED FEBRUARY 4TH 1826, AGED 63 YEARS: 

THE EXEMPLARY PARENTS OF A NUMEROUS FAMILY, WHO, DEEPLY INDEBTED TO THEIR CARES AND VIRTUES, THUS HUMBLY RECORD THEIR GRATITUDE AND REVERENCE."

DB 26 May 2024

Aswarby, Saint Denis Church
Aswarby, St Denys, North Aisle, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, North Aisle, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, North Aisle, Memorial

"In the north aisle are 2 black and white marble tablets to members of the Whichcote family, one dated 1810 with fluted and draped urn is by Earle of Hull."

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360619?section=official-list-entry

"Sacred To the Memory of HARRIOT, Daughter of Sir THOMAS WHICHCOTE Bart; And Wife of JAMES ATTY Esqr. After an union of little more than two Years, Died of the Scarlet Fever at GRANTHAM, May 30th. 1810, In the 22nd Year of her Age Her humble and amiable deportment, Joined to her other excellent Qualities, gained her The Respect of her Acquaintance And the Affections of her Friends, In the last trying scene, She testified her firm faith in God by a resignation To his Will, animated by the pleasing Hope of the Christian." 

DB 26 May 2024

Aswarby, Saint Denis Church
Aswarby, St Denys, North Aisle, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, North Aisle, Memorial
Aswarby, St Denys, North Aisle, Memorial

"To the Memory of Sir FRANCIS WHICHCOTE of Aswarby Bart. who died Octr. 22.d 1775 Aged 84 years. 

Also FRANCES Lady WHICHCOTE His Wife, who died July 20th. 1772 Aged 75 years."

DB 22 June 2024

Aswarby, Saint Denis Church
Aswardby, St Helen, Memorial (Brackenbury x3)
Aswardby, St Helen, Memorial (Brackenbury x3)
Aswardby, St Helen, Memorial (Brackenbury x3)

Three generations of the Brackenbury family of Aswardby Hall.

Charles Booth Brackenbury was a British major general and military correspondent to The Times. Further information about him may be found at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Booth_Brackenbury

A lithograph of him is in the National Portrait Gallery; see:

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw42266/Charles-Booth-Brackenbury

Jean Howard 7 September 2024

Aswardby, St Helen church, Richard Brackenbury
Aswardby, St Helen, Memorial (Henry Brackenbury)
Aswardby, St Helen, Memorial (Henry Brackenbury)
Aswardby, St Helen, Memorial (Henry Brackenbury)

This brass plaque reads:

To the Glory of God/ and in Memory of/ The Right Honourable Sir Henry Brackenbury/ Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath/ Knight Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India/ One of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Councillors/ General in His Majesty's Army Colonel Commandant of the Royal Regiment of Artillery/ Son of William Brackenbury late of Aswardby Hall/ Born 1st September 1837 – Died 20th April 1914/ Erected by his widow Edith Maud Brackenbury/ his nephew Hereward Brackenbury, and his cousins/ Admiral John Brackenbury CB. CMG and Colonel Maule Brackenbury CSI 

Sir Henry Brackenbury was a British army officer and military historian; see:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Brackenbury 

Jean Howard 7 September 2024

Aswardby, St Helen church, Henry Brackenbury
Aswardby, St Helen, Memorial (Odling)
Aswardby, St Helen, Memorial (Odling)
Aswardby, St Helen, Memorial (Odling)

William Eardley Odling was member of a farming family. Originating from West Firsby near Lincoln he farmed for much of his life at Aswardby and was known as a breeder of red short-horn cattle. He died at Park House, Aswardby.

Jean Howard 7 September 2024

Aswardby, St Helen church, William Eardley Odling
Aswardby, St Helen, War Memorial
Aswardby, St Helen, War Memorial
Aswardby, St Helen, War Memorial

An attractive design of mosaic pieces on marble.

Jean Howard 7 September 2024

Aswardby, St Helen church, war memorial
Aubourn, St Peter (Old Church), Memorial
Aubourn, St Peter (Old Church), Memorial
Aubourn, St Peter (Old Church), Memorial

Memorial to Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Ainslie, killed at the Battle of Inkermann in the Crimean War.

His mother was from the Nevile family of Aubourn Hall.

Mark Acton, 2010

Aubourn, St Peter church, Frederick Ainslie, memorial
Authorpe, St Margaret, monument
Authorpe, St Margaret, monument
Authorpe, St Margaret, monument

Inscribed memorial in the north wall of the chancel of St Margaret's.

"In Memory of / Frances ye wife of Mr / Geo. White son of / Mr Richd White Re[ctor] / of this parish. She died / 7th October 1738 Age xx / Her two children / and Eliza (?) are interred / with her"

Naomi Field, 1984

Authorpe, St Margaret, Frances White, George White
Bardney, St Lawrence, Statue
Bardney, St Lawrence, Statue
Bardney, St Lawrence, Statue

Stone figure mounted on north side of chancel. The inscription reads:

"The figure of St Laurence excavated at Bardney Abbey 1910 was restored and placed in this church in loving memory of Walter Thos French MA Vicar of this parish 1910-1930 R.I.P."

Bardney, St Lawrence, statue, monument
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Chancel, Monument
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Chancel, Monument
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Chancel, Monument

Inscription difficult to understand but it seems to mention John Ekins of Ringstead, Northamptonshire with a date of 1671.

DB 10 September 2022

Barkston, Saint Nicholas Church, image
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Chancel, Monument
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Chancel, Monument
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Chancel, Monument

Memorial to "MR ROGER STEEVENS" a former rector d. 1712 and other members of his family.

DB 10 September 2022

Barkston, Saint Nicholas Church, image
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Boer War Memorial
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Boer War Memorial
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Boer War Memorial

"TO THE MEMORY OF HENRY MASON WHINCUP ELDEST SON OF JOHN AND ELEANOR WHINCUP OF THIS PARISH WHO HAVING VOLUNTEERED FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR IN THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT FELL A VICTIM TO FEVER AND DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY AT PRETORIA JANUARY 25 1901 AGED 26 YEARS

IN THIS CHURCH WHERE HE WORSHIPPED AND SERVED FOR MANY YEARS AS A MEMBER OF THE CHOIR THIS MEMORIAL IS PLACED BY THE PEOPLE OF BARKSTON AND OTHERS WHO HONOURED HIS GALLANTRY AND MOURN HIS LOSS.

MAY HE REST IN PEACE"

DB 10 September 2022

Barkston, Saint Nicholas Church, image, boer war memorial
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Monument
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Monument
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Monument

"In memory of MR. REUBEN CLEVELAND (GENT) who died 27th August 1850; Aged 81 Years and ELIZABETH his widow who died 31st December 1852; Aged 86 Years.

This Tablet is erected by their only child HENRY CLEVELAND A M, for 21 years Rector of this Parish, & afterwards Romaldkirk Yorkshire"

DB 10 September 2022

Barkston, Saint Nicholas Church, image, Cleveland, Romaldkirk
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Monuments
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Monuments
Barkston, Saint Nicholas, Nave, Monuments

"Two fragments of C14 recumbent effigies are built into the blocking of the north door of the nave; one a priest in vestments, the other a laymen, each beneath trefoil heads, the latter having censing angels in the spandrels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2022

Barkston, Saint Nicholas Church, image
Barlings, St Edward, Nave, Memorial
Barlings, St Edward, Nave, Memorial
Barlings, St Edward, Nave, Memorial

"Ornate monument in white, red and black marble to Frederick Oates, died 1862"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064015?section=official-list-entry  

"In Memory of Frederick William Oates, of Barlings House in this Parish, Magistrate for the Parts of Lindsey in this County, 

Born at Leeds February 3rd 1785

Died at Leeds February 23rd 1862

And of Mary Ann his wife only surviving daughter of the late Charles Foster, of this Parish and of the City of Lincoln, 

Born at Lincoln April 29th 1795,

Died at Leamington March 24th 1880.

The remains of both are buried in the adjoining Churchyard" 

DB 4 May 2024

Barlings, Saint Edward Church, Frederick Oates
Barlings, St Edward, Nave, Memorial
Barlings, St Edward, Nave, Memorial
Barlings, St Edward, Nave, Memorial

"SACRED

TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES FOSTER, LATE OF THIS PARISH, AND OF THE CITY OF LINCOLN, ELDEST SON OF Mr. ALDERMAN FOSTER.

OF ELIZABETH HIS WIFE AND ELIZABETH THEIR DAUGHTER, WHOSE REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN THE CHURCH-YARD OF St: MARY LE WIGFORD IN THE CITY OF LINCOLN.

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED AS A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE TO THE BEST OF PARENTS AND OF SISTERS. BY THEIR ONLY SURVIVING CHILD AND SISTER MARY ANN WIFE OF FREDERICK WILLIAM OATES. 

ANNO DOMINI.1836."

DB 4 May 2024

Barlings, Saint Edward Church
Barrowby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Barrowby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Barrowby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument

"DR THOMAS HURST HATH LYEING WITHIN THIS CHANCEL 7 CHILDREN NAMELY ANNE LEWIS MARY ELIZABETH CHARLES SARAYH & ANNA THIS IS TO THEIR MEMORY 1675"

"Dr Thomas Hurst became Rector of Barrowby and Leadenham in 1629, and a Doctor of Divinity in 1631

"Thomas later became chaplain to Charles I, and during the Civil War spent two years away from his parishes preaching to the Royalists.

He was sequestrated in 1645 and not restored until 1660, after paying a fine of £640"

See very interesting article in the Grantham Journal :-

https://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/grantham-civic-society-column-thomas-hurst-was-chaplain-to-charles-i-1-7015159/ 

DB 12 November 2018

Barrowby, All Saints, Church, MONUMENT, DR THOMAS HURST
Bassingham, St Michael, Monument
Bassingham, St Michael, Monument
Bassingham, St Michael, Monument

A monument to Poole Savage d.1828. 

Pevsner comments "A tablet in the Greek taste by Wray of Lincoln".

DB 20 April 2018

Bassingham, Saint Michael, Church, image, monument, Poole Savage
Baumber, St Swithin, Grave Slab
Baumber, St Swithin, Grave Slab
Baumber, St Swithin, Grave Slab

This slab carries a dedication to John Eland and his two wives, dated 1463.

He lived in Raithby and was married again after his first wife died.

May 2013

Baumber, St Swithin church, John Eland, monument
Beckingham, All Saints, North Aisle, Memorial
Beckingham, All Saints, North Aisle, Memorial
Beckingham, All Saints, North Aisle, Memorial

"NEAR THIS PLACE LIES THE BODY OF MR ROBERT HACKET AM OF THE SOCIETY OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE IN OXFORD AND RECTOR OF THIS CHURCH. HE WAS A DECENDANT OF THAT WORTHY AND LEARNED PRELATE OF THE CHURCH DR JOHN HACKET BISHOP OF LITCHFIELD AND COVENTRY. HE DIED DECEMBER THE 19TH 1733 AGED 29"

DB 29 October 2022

Beckingham, All Saints Church, image
Beckingham, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial
Beckingham, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial
Beckingham, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF C. F. ROGERS, AGED 35. ALSO OF S. B. ROGERS, AGED 33. WHO WERE KILLED IN FRANCE DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918. MAY THEY REST IN PEACE"

DB 29 October 2022

Beckingham, All Saints Church, image, war memorial
Beckingham, All Saints, South Aisle, Memorials
Beckingham, All Saints, South Aisle, Memorials
Beckingham, All Saints, South Aisle, Memorials

The upper memorial reads in part :- 

"In memory of Robert Whittaker, M.A.,of Edymead, Leamington, Honorary Canon of Manchester and Rector of Beckingham. For forty years he was vicar of Leesfield, and a long tme Rural Dean of Oldham. During his brief ministry the Church was thoroughly repaired, the Chancel, Clerestory and Porch restored, the whole interior decorated and the Schools refloored and beautified. Died January 8th 1894 aged 76 years ... "

The lower is a memorial to Thomas Williamson MDCXXXIX (1639). A Rector of Beckingham and Professor of Theology?

DB 29 October 2022

Beckingham, All Saints Church, image
Beckingham, All Saints, Tower, Effigy
Beckingham, All Saints, Tower, Effigy
Beckingham, All Saints, Tower, Effigy

Effigy located under tower - rather hidden by stacked tables and chairs.

"Monument, early C14, defaced effigy of a lady"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360525?section=official-list-entry 

Village history suggests this might be Christiana de Furnival.

http://beckinghamvillage.co.uk/pdfs/history/history.pdf 

DB 11 February 2023

Beckingham, All Saints Church, image, effigy
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial Speaker Cust
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial Speaker Cust
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial Speaker Cust

The Church Guide states :-

"Sir John Cust, 3rd Bt of Stamford (1718-1770) by William Tyler, R.A. (d 1801).

The monument is descriptive of Sir John's office as Speaker of the House of Commons, with the Speaker's throne and mace, accompanied by a figure of Fidelity gesturing towards a volume of the Journal of the House of Commons which records Cust's re-election as Speaker in 1768"

DB 13 September 2018

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, Memorial Speaker Cust, William Tyler
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial, Brownlow Cust
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial, Brownlow Cust
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial, Brownlow Cust

"Monument to Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow, by Richard Westmacott"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownlow_Cust,_1st_Baron_Brownlow

"In 1766 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Ilchester in Somerset, a seat he held until 1774, and then represented Grantham between 1774 and 1776, in which year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Brownlow, "of Belton in the County of Lincoln".

The peerage was chiefly in recognition of his father's services, and the name of his title refers to his paternal grandmother Anne Brownlow (Lady Cust), sister and heiress in her issue of John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel (1690-1754), of Belton House, and wife of Sir Richard Cust, 2nd Baronet.

In 1776 he was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and in 1783 was made a Fellow of the Royal Society"

DB 13 September 2018

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, memorial, Brownlow Cust, Richard Westmacott
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial, Viscount Tyrconnel
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial, Viscount Tyrconnel
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial, Viscount Tyrconnel

Sculpted by Sir Henry Cheere who was a renowned English sculptor and monumental mason of the eighteenth century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cheere 

"Viscount Tyrconnel was a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

It was created in 1718 for Sir John Brownlow, 5th Baronet, Member of Parliament for Grantham and Lincolnshire.

He was made Baron Charleville, in the County of Cork, at the same time, also in the Peerage of Ireland"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Tyrconnel#Viscounts_Tyrconnel_(1718) 

DB 26 September 2018

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, memorial, Viscount Tyrconnel, Sir Henry Cheere
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial Chapel
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial Chapel
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial Chapel

In the centre of the photo are the monuments to the first Earl Brownlow (d1853), and his wife Sophia (d1814).

The church is full of imposing family monuments - hence the quip
"Belton church was built to the glory of the Brownlows, and in memory of God".

Frank Robinson, March 2014

Belton Kesteven, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial Chapel
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Nave, Memorial HMS Strongbow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Nave, Memorial HMS Strongbow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, Nave, Memorial HMS Strongbow

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN UNDYING MEMORY OF ARTHUR JOHN PUREY-CUST SUB LIEUT. ROYAL NAVY AND OF HIS GALLANT COMRADES OF HMS STRONGBOW KILLED IN ACTION ON 17TH OCTOBER 1917 IN DEFENCE OF A CONVOY IN THE NORTH SEA FIGHTING AGAINST OVERWHELMING ODDS UNTIL THEIR VESSEL SANK WITH COLOURS FLYING"

"HMS Strongbow was an M-class destroyer built for the British Royal Navy during the First World War.

The ship was launched in September 1916 and entered service in November that year.

Stongbow was sunk on 17 October 1917 by the German light cruisers SMS Bremse and Brummer in the North Sea, when escorting a convoy of merchant ships from Norway"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Strongbow_(1916) 

DB 17 July 2019

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, war memorial, HMS Strongbow,
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial Henry Cust
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial Henry Cust
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial Henry Cust

Marble effigy of her husband by Emmeline 'Nina' Cust (1867-1955).

"Emmeline 'Nina' Cust (1867-1955) was an English writer, editor, translator and sculptor.

She was a member of The Souls, an upper class circle that challenged the conventions and attitudes of their class in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ...

On 11 October 1893, Cust married another member of The Souls, Henry John Cockayne-Cust.

She supported her husband in much of his work, including correspondence for the Central Committee for National Patriotic Organisations.

Cust was devoted to her husband, despite a reputedly unhappy marriage that lasted until his death in 1917.

Cust was a direct neighbour of sculptor Jacob Epstein when they both lived at Hyde Park Gate in London"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmeline_Cust 

DB 13 September 2018

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, memorial, Emmeline Cust
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial John Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial John Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial John Brownlow

"Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet (26 June 1659 - 16 July 1697) of Belton House near Grantham in Lincolnshire, was an English Member of Parliament.

He built the grand mansion of Belton House, which survives today ...

As he died without surviving male issue, he was succeeded in his title and in most of his estates, including Belton, by his younger brother Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet (1665-1701), who received Belton House on condition that John's widow Alice Sherard should retain possession of it during her lifetime.

As she outlived Sir William, it therefore passed on her death in 1721 to William's son John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel (1690-1754)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Brownlow,_3rd_Baronet 

DB 13 September 2018

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, memorial, Sir John Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial John&Alice Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial John&Alice Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial John&Alice Brownlow

The Church Guide states :- 

""Old" Sir John Brownlow, 1st Bt of Belton (1594-1679) and his wife Alice by William Stanton (see No 2).

This touching monument, for which he received £100 in 1681, is Stanton's first recorded work at Belton, and the first of a series of Brownlow monuments by him and his son Edward"

DB 17 September 2010

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, memorial, John & Alice Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial, Richard Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial, Richard Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Memorial, Richard Brownlow

A prominent Elizabethan lawyer who founded the Brownlow family fortunes.

"Richard Brownlow (1553-1638) of Belton in Lincolnshire, was a lawyer who served as Chief Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brownlow 

This monument, by Joshua Marshall (1629-1678), was carved some time after Brownlow's death.

Richard Brownlow built the upper stage of the church tower. 

DB 13 September 2018

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, memorial, Richard Brownlow
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Nicholas Doyle (Chief Butler)
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Nicholas Doyle (Chief Butler)
Belton, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Nicholas Doyle (Chief Butler)

"Near this Place lieth the Body of Nicholas Doyle who Served this Noble Family as Chief Butler above five and twenty years. As long as Fidelity in service : Disinterested principles : a modest Obliging and Creditable Behaviour Shall be deemed reputable Qualifications, the Deceased's Name will be recorded with Praise. 

The Right Honble the Lord Viscount Tyrconnel out of his usual Regard to merit in all Stations ordered this marble to be Erected  in Memory of his most Valuable and much lamented Servant"

DB 26 September 2018

Belton, St Peter & St Paul, church, memorial, Nicholas Doyle, Chief Butler, Viscount Tyrconnel
Benniworth, St Julian, Memorial
Benniworth, St Julian, Memorial
Benniworth, St Julian, Memorial

Memorial to Jack Harkness who died as a Japanese prisoner of war.

DB 9 September 2018

Benniworth, Saint Julian, Church, memorial, Jack Harkness, Japanese prisoner of war
Benniworth, St Julian, Memorial Brass
Benniworth, St Julian, Memorial Brass
Benniworth, St Julian, Memorial Brass

Memorial to Charles Lee the Rector's son killed at Ypres during the First World War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Garrison_Artillery 

DB 9 September 2018

Benniworth, Saint Julian, Church
Bicker, St Swithun, South Aisle, Boer War Monument
Bicker, St Swithun, South Aisle, Boer War Monument
Bicker, St Swithun, South Aisle, Boer War Monument

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF FARNDON GROOM MOUNTAIN CORPORAL IN THE 72ND COMPANY IMPERIAL YEOMANRY (ROUGH RIDERS) AND FOR MANY YEARS A CHORISTER OF THIS CHURCH WHO DIED AT PRETORIA IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY DURING THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 18TH DECEMBER 1900 AGED 19"

DB 1 September 2022

Bicker, Saint Swithun Church, image, Boer War Monument, FARNDON GROOM MOUNTAIN
Bicker, St Swithun, South Aisle, Monument
Bicker, St Swithun, South Aisle, Monument
Bicker, St Swithun, South Aisle, Monument

"Near the south door a wall monument in the form of an escutcheon with scrolled sides and shield to Rev. Hinckesman d.1744"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062014?section=official-list-entry 

DB 1 September 2022

Bicker, Saint Swithun Church, image, Monument Hinckesman
Bigby, All Saints, Effigy (Skipwith)
Bigby, All Saints, Effigy (Skipwith)
Bigby, All Saints, Effigy (Skipwith)

In the chancel a recumbent effigy of a lady, C14, feet resting on a dog, full dress with the wimple secured by a chin band, tightly fitting sleeves and little evidence of the recutting suggested by Pevsner. 

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063405?section=official-list-entry 

Jean Howard 2 May 2024

Bigby, All Saints, Church, Skipwith
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (Charles James Barnard)
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (Charles James Barnard)
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (Charles James Barnard)

This tablet on the north wall of the chancel remembers Revd Charles James Barnard, Rector of the parish from 1833 to 1868.  Sadly during his time in office he lost four adult children all of whom have memorial tablets in the church: George Percy Barnard died in 1854 aged 23; Dudley Thomas Barnard died in 1855 aged 26; Louisa Charlotte Barnard died the same year aged 25; and in 1865 Pelham William Barnard died aged 31. This tablet is for the Rector and his wife. It reads: THIS TABLET/ IS ERECTED BY/ THEIR SURVIVING CHILDREN/ TO THE MEMORY OF/THE REVD/ CHARLES JAMES BARNARD/ 35 YEARS RECTOR OF/ THIS PARISH: WHO DIED AT TORQUAY,/ SEPTEMBER 29TH 1868,/ IN HIS 72ND YEAR. AND OF/ CAROLINE, HIS WIFE,/ ELDEST DAUGHTER OF/ ROBERT CARY ELWES, ESQRE/ OF GREAT BILLING, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE./ SHE DIED MAY 28TH 1866,/ IN HER 68TH YEAR, AT TORQUAY,/ WHERE THEY ARE BOTH INTERRED. One of their surviving children was Revd Charles Cary Barnard who married Charlotte Alington Pye, the successful ballad writer under her pen-name Claribel.

Jean Howard 2 May 2024

Bigby, All Saints, Church, Charles James Barnard tablet
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (Edward Nayler)
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (Edward Nayler)
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (Edward Nayler)

Attached to the south wall of the chancel in the arcade of the sedilia is this small brass to Edward Nayler who died in 1581. He and his wife kneel at a prayer desk with their two sons and five daughters. The inscription seems to read: HER LIETH YE BODY OF EDWARD NAYLER A FAITHFUL & PAIN FULL/ MINISTER OF GODS WORD & SOMETIME RECTOR OF THIS CHURCH WHO/ AFTER 16 YEARES GODLY & LEARNED LABOURS IN YE 25 DAY OF MAY/ 1581 CHANGED (?) THIS MISERABLE MORTALITIE INTO BLESSED ETERNITIE.

Jean Howard 2 May 2024

Bigby, All Saints, Church, Edward Nayler
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (Elizabeth Skipwith)
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (Elizabeth Skipwith)
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (Elizabeth Skipwith)

A small but fine brass to Elizabeth Skipwith, c.1520.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063405?section=official-list-entry

Jean Howard 2 May 2024

Bigby, All Saints, Church, Elizabeth Skipwith
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (Harold Elvin Howsam)
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (Harold Elvin Howsam)
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (Harold Elvin Howsam)

Harold Elvin Howsam was a native of Bigby and was a server and bell-ringer here before he joined the RAF. The engraving says: In loving memory of Pilot Officer Harold Elvin Howsam of Bigby server and ringer in the church and Flight Sergeant Gordon Fletcher of London, Ontario and of comrades lost with them on active service with the pathfinder squadron RAF on the night of 12-13th June 1943 and laid to rest in the province of Friesland in Holland. Grant unto them O Lord, eternal rest.

Jean Howard 2 May 2024

Bigby, All Saints, Church, Harold Elvin Howsom
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (John Walker)
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (John Walker)
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (John Walker)

A simple wall tablet by masons A Shaw of Hull. Note also the small tablet which reads ‘Bigby 1914 -2014 A Thankful Village’ meaning that all who served in the First World War returned safely home.

Jean Howard 2 May 2024

Bigby, All Saints, Church, John Walker
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (Sophia Eleanora Elwes)
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (Sophia Eleanora Elwes)
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (Sophia Eleanora Elwes)

Metal plaque on a white marble background.

It reads: In loving memory of Sophia Eleanora eldest daughter/ of Dudley Christopher Cary Elwes Esq and Mary June Sophia his wife/ widow of the Revd C A West Curate of Wrawby cum Brigg and of Wickenby/ and wife of the Rev Thomas Field BD Rector of Bigby/ she died May 5th 1873 and is buried near her parents in this churchyard/ Passed from Death into life John.5.24

Jean Howard 2 May 2024

Bigby, All Saints, Church, Sophia Eleanora Elwes
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (William Everatt Hobson)
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (William Everatt Hobson)
Bigby, All Saints, Memorial (William Everatt Hobson)

A handsome marble tablet, this reads:

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM EVERATT HOBSON, LATE OF KETTLEBY THORPE; WHO DIED AT HIS RESIDENCE IN BRIGG, 24TH MAY 1868, IN THE 72ND YEAR OF HIS AGE. THIS TABLET IS ERECTED IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE, BY HIS WIDOW.

The work is signed W.D. KEYWORTH SCULPTOR, HULL

W D Keyworth was a very talented sculptor and much can be found about work undertaken by him and his son. See:

http://www.speel.me.uk/sculpt/keyworth.htm 

Jean Howard 2 May 2024

Bigby, All Saints, Church, William Everatt Hobson
Bigby, All Saints, Monument, Robert & Bridget Tyrhitt
Bigby, All Saints, Monument, Robert & Bridget Tyrhitt
Bigby, All Saints, Monument, Robert & Bridget Tyrhitt

… monument to Sir Robert Tyrwhit, d. 1617 and Lady Bridget Manners d. 1604. The 2 figures, she headless, kneel opposite each other, contained in a framework of single Corinthian pillars supporting an entablature surmounted by an achievement of arms. Between the figures was originally an altar, now demolished. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063405?section=official-list-entry 

According to the church guidebook when Robert married Lady Bridget, who was a favourite lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth I, he did so without the queen’s knowledge or consent. She had him arrested and thrown into a dungeon whence he was released because he became very ill. Lady Bridget was called back to court but died of ‘Ye Sicknesse’ at the age of 24. Both are buried in the church and the flat surface between the figures on the memorial is used as a credence table for the bread and wine.

Jean Howard 2 May 2024

Bigby, All Saints, Church
Bigby, All Saints, Monument, Robert & Bridget Tyrhitt, Epitaph
Bigby, All Saints, Monument, Robert & Bridget Tyrhitt, Epitaph
Bigby, All Saints, Monument, Robert & Bridget Tyrhitt, Epitaph

 

Jean Howard 2 May 2024

Bigby, All Saints, Church, Robert and Bridget Tyrhitt
Bigby, All Saints, Monument, Robert & Elizabeth Tyrhitt
Bigby, All Saints, Monument, Robert & Elizabeth Tyrhitt
Bigby, All Saints, Monument, Robert & Elizabeth Tyrhitt

On the north side of the chancel is an immense alabaster tomb to Sir Robert Tyrwhitt of Kettleby, d.1581, and his wife.

A large tombchest supports the recumbent effigies, he armoured and resting on a paliasse, rolled at the base, and with a wildman or Woodwose at his feet, she with a lion at hers. Above is an architectural frame with Doric columns, cartouched plaque and momento mori surmounted by a shield of arms. Beneath, round the sides of the chest, 22 children appear as weepers for their parents.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063405?section=official-list-entry

Jean Howard 2 May 2024

Bigby, All Saints, Church
Billingborough, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial

"Near this Place LIETH INTERR'D THE BODY OF THE REVD, JOHN TOWERS VICAR OF THIS PARISH, AND THREEKINGHAM, WHO DEPARTED  THIS LIFE NOVEMBER 3rd, 1802; AGED 82 YEARS.

Wing, Folk'm"

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN ESSINGTON GENTN. WHO DIED ON THE XXVIII.TH OF OCTR. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD MDCCXCIX AND IN THE LXVII.TH YEAR OF HIS AGE."

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial

"THIS SACRED TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. THOMAS LATHAM, VICAR OF THIS PARISH 44 YEARS, AND OF SEMPRINGHAM 20 YEARS HE DIED MAY 1ITH 1846, AGED 76 YEARS. WITHIN THE SAME VAULT LIE THE REMAINS OF MORTIMER LATHAM, SON OF THE ABOVE, WHO DIED MARCH 15 TH 1814, AGED ONE YEAR. ALSO FREDERIC AUGUSTUS, SON OF THE REV. FREDERIC LATHAM, WHO DIED MAY 7TH 1846, AGED 10 MONTHS.

"MAY CHRIST THE REDEEMER BE THE ROCK OF THEIR SALVATION""

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial

"M. S.

ROBERTI KELHAM,

Ecclesiarum de Billingburgh, Threekingham, et Walcot,Vicarii, prioris quidem plusquam 50 Annos; Viri probi, docti,faceti, Qui ob: 23, Apr: 1752,Æt.75.

NEC non MARIÆ KELHAM Quæ ob. Enixa.19,Oct.1728,Æt.41.

ROB: KELHAM et Avisia Calthrop, soli, ex duodecim Liberis, superstites Ut perpetuum sui Amoris et M'æroris Parentum optimorum Testimonium, Hoc Monumentum posuere."

Google Translate renders this as :-

" "M.S.

ROBERT KELHAM,

Vicars of the churches of Billingburgh, Threekingham, and Walcot, the former indeed for more than 50 years; Probable, learned, accomplished men, Who ob: 23, Apr: 1752, Æt.75.

NOR MARY KELHAM Which ob. Enixa. 19, Oct. 1728, Æt. 41

ROB: KELHAM and Avisia Calthrop, the only surviving children of twelve children, set up this Monument as a perpetual Testimony of their Love and Sorrow to their Parents."

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial

"In Loving Memory of WILLIAM BLASSON, M.R.C.S. BORN IN BILLINGBORO', DIED AT HARROGATE, SEPT: 2ND 1904, AGED SIXTY EIGHT.

"I COME TO DO THY WILL" HEBREWS X. 9."

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF THOMAS BUCKBERRY, GENT. OF THIS PARISH, WHO DIED 7" JUNE 1828; AGED 74 YEARS"

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church, THOMAS BUCKBERRY
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial

"SACRED. To the Memory of MARY, the WIFE of THOMAS BUCKBERRY Gent; who Departed this Life 12th March 1809, Aged, 50 Years."

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial

"SACRED, To the Memory of ELIZA, the Wife of JAMES CUTHBERT MASON, Surgeon who departed this Life 15th August 1810, Aged 24. Years.

the only Child of THOS; and MARY BUCKBERRY.

Life, how short! Eternity, how long!"

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial

"THIS SACRED TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT NICHOLLS, THE DEARLY BELOVED SON OF THOMAS AND MARY CATHERINE BLASSON, WHO DIED APRIL 27TH, 1848 IN THE TWELFTH YEAR OF HIS AGE.

ALSO OF BERTIE, THEIR SIXTH SON, WHO DIED FEBRUARY 29TH, 1840, AGED FOUR MONTHS.

AND OF ALBERT, THEIR SEVENTH SON, WHO DIED JUNE 29TH, 1841, AGED SIX WEEKS."

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorials
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorials
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, Memorials

"3 white and grey plaques with triangular heads to Thomas Buckberry, died 1828, Mary Buckberry, died 1809 and Elizabeth Mason, died 1810"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317596?section=official-list-entry 

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, War Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, War Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, War Memorial

First World War memorial to the fallen of the village.

Mark Acton, 2017

Billingborough, First World War
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, War Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, War Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Nave, War Memorial
Billingborough, Saint Andrew church, war memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, North Aisle, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, North Aisle, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, North Aisle, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MARY GOULD, Spinster WHO DIED THE 7"MAY 1835, AGED 69YEARS".

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, North Aisle, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, North Aisle, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, North Aisle, Memorial

"A white marble monument to Philippa Foulkes, died 1840"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317596?section=official-list-entry 

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, North Aisle, Memorials
Billingborough, St Andrew, North Aisle, Memorials
Billingborough, St Andrew, North Aisle, Memorials

"A grey and white marble monument to Rebecca Thomas, died 1838; a white marble monument on black field to William Westmorland, died 1828; a white and grey monument to another William Westmorland, died 1819"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317596?section=official-list-entry 

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, North Aisle, Memorials
Billingborough, St Andrew, North Aisle, Memorials
Billingborough, St Andrew, North Aisle, Memorials

"2 diamond shaped plaques, one with lion head at apex to James Arminger (date of death illegible) and Edmund Dodsworth, died 1858; oval monument set in between to Reverend Brownlow Toller, died 1794"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317596?section=official-list-entry 

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial

Memorial to "JOSEPHUS BURTON Gen" d.MDCCLXI (1761).

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial

"To the memory of JOHN GREENHAM who died 11 December 1793 aged 58 years

Also ELIZABETH his Wife who died 5 March 1795 aged 61 years"

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial

"SACRED to the memory of MARY WAYLET ... "

d.MDCCCXXXI"  (1831)

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial

"To the Memory of JOHN SAYWELL Gent who departed this life the 3rd of April 1777 Aged 45 years.

also LYDIA his Wife who departed this Life December 1st 1796 in the 56 Year of her Age"

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Billingborough, St Andrew, Tower, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Tower, Memorial
Billingborough, St Andrew, Tower, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF THOMAS FREDERICK CARFORD WHO DIED 1980 AGED 73 YEARS 

VERGER OF THIS CHURCH 1956 TO 1980

ONE TIME CAPTAIN OF THE TOWER

A FAITHFUL MEMBER OF THIS CHURCH"

DB 21 July 2024

Billingborough, Saint Andrew church
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, North Aisle, Chapel
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, North Aisle, Chapel
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, North Aisle, Chapel

"THIS CHAPEL OF ST.GABRIEL IS DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF GEORGE FREDERICK SLEIGHT OF BINBROOK HALL. AT REST SEPTEMBER 17th 1954 . AGED 64. MAY HE REST IN PEACE"

DB 3 September 2023

Binbrook, St Mary and St Gabriel Church
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, North Aisle, Memorial
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, North Aisle, Memorial
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, North Aisle, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF Sqd/Ldr L.H. GLASSPOOL D.F.C. DIED IN ACTION 27TH APRIL 1944 AGED 24 YEARS. AND HIS BELOVED DAUGHTER JUDITH MAY DIED 27TH APRIL 1979 AGED 37 YEARS."

DB 3 September 2023

Binbrook, St Mary and St Gabriel Church, GLASSPOOL
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, South Aisle, Memorial
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, South Aisle, Memorial
Binbrook, SS.Mary&Gabriel, South Aisle, Memorial

"IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF MAJOR PETER HENRY WOODTHORPE CLARKE, M.C. THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. OF BINBROOK MANOR, KILLED IN ACTION IN GERMANY 3RD MARCH, 1945, AGED 23 YEARS. SO HE PASSED OVER, AND ALL THE TRUMPETS SOUNDED FOR HIM ON THE OTHER SIDE."

See also

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/53957 

DB 3 September 2023

Binbrook, St Mary and St Gabriel Church, MAJOR PETER HENRY WOODTHORPE
Bitchfield, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Ledger Stone
Bitchfield, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Ledger Stone
Bitchfield, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Ledger Stone

In the Chancel floor an old tomb stone to the wife of Master John Woodruffe who died in 1685. Church guide notes state that this stone was formerly in the nave floor.

DB 3 June 2023

Bitchfield, Saint Mary Magdalen Church, Image, Ledgerstone Woodruffe
Bitchfield, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial
Bitchfield, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial
Bitchfield, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial

"In the north aisle a respositioned brass plaque to Elizabeth Lack, d.l661, with engraved coat of arms"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062863?section=official-list-entry 

Church guide notes state "Originally on a stone in the Chancel, this brass was found beneath an old timber floor in the Vestry when it was removed following outbreaks of dry rot in 1958"

DB 3 June 2023

Bitchfield, Saint Mary Magdalen Church, Image, monument, Elizabeth Lack
Blankney, St Oswald, Chancel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chancel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chancel, Memorial

"In loving memory of JOHN OTTER STEPHENS M.A. Priest Honorary Canon Southwark Cathedral Born 26th April 1832 Died 14th Aug. 1925 Rector of this Parish 1879-1903"

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, JOHN OTTER STEPHENS
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial

"Chantry chapel contains a large Gothick style monument with marble relief of mourning lady to Lady Florence Chaplin, 1851"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064285?section=official-list-entry 

Local signage has "This is a life size figure of Lady Florence kneeling at prayer carved in white marble with a gothic stone surround, by Sir Edgar Boehm. It was made in 1881 to commemorate her death" 

Lady Florence died in childbirth. 

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, Lady Florence Chaplin, Sir Edgar Boehm
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial

Plaque below the life size figure of Lady Florence kneeling at prayer.

"LADY FLORENCE CHAPLIN DAUGHTER OF THE THIRD DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, BORN 1855, DIED 1881. ERECTED BY HER HUSBAND HENRY VISCOUNT CHAPLIN"

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, LADY FLORENCE CHAPLIN
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial

"Small mandala-shaped wall tablet to Caroline Chaplin"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064285?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, Caroline Chaplin
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Chantry Chapel, Memorial

"Near this Place are deposited the Remains of Thomas and Jane Porter : The latter died suddenly on the 25th of Decr. 1789 Aged 64 ; The former, long afflicted, departed this Life, on the 14th of August 1800 Aged 76 - He was, 30 Years, Prebendary of the Collegiate Church of Southwell; and for forty Years, Rector of this Parish" 

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, Thomas Porter
Blankney, St Oswald, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARY SEFTON WHO DIED OCTOBER 4TH 1890 - THIS TABLET IS PLACED BY THE CHAPLIN FAMILY WHOSE DEVOTED NURSE SHE WAS FOR MANY YEARS"

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, MARY SEFTON
Blankney, St Oswald, North Aisle, War Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, North Aisle, War Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, North Aisle, War Memorial

A memorial bell was provided after the First World war. An inscription on the bell reads :-

"Thanks be to G0D who giveth us the Victory

A Thankoffering for Peace from the Farmers of Blankney 1919"

Additionally a tablet, pictured here, was provided in the church recording the names of the 12 fallen. A second tablet was added following the Second World War with 3 more names.

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, war memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, South Aisle, East Window, Plaque
Blankney, St Oswald, South Aisle, East Window, Plaque
Blankney, St Oswald, South Aisle, East Window, Plaque

Plaque beneath the east window of the south aisle.

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF EDWARD CHAPLIN * BORN 28TH MARCH 1842 * AT REST 23RD DECEMBER 1883 + THIS WINDOW IS PLACED HERE BY MARY SEFTON HIS FORMER NURSE"

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image
Blankney, St Oswald, South Aisle, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, South Aisle, Memorial
Blankney, St Oswald, South Aisle, Memorial

Plaque on the south wall. 

"TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF FRANCIS - 2ND EARL OF LONDESBOROUGH WHO DIED OCTOBER 30TH 1917 AND OF HIS SON GEORGE FRANCIS WHO SUCCEEDED HIM AS 3RD EARL OF LONDESBOROUGH AND WHO DIED AT BLANKNEY - SEPT. 12TH. 1920"

DB 10 August 2023

Blankney, Saint Oswald Church, image, EARL OF LONDESBOROUGH
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, Font
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, Font
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, Font

"This Font was erected to the Glory of God by Gerald Ward Martin Lieut Bengal Saff Corps in loving memory of his darling wife SUSAN ANNE MARIA MARTIN ...."

Gerald Ward Martin's promotion to Captain was reported in the The London Gazette, September 12, 1879 so the font was presumably installed prior to that date.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24761/page/5456/data.pdf 

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image, Gerald Ward Martin
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, War Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, War Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, War Memorial

War memorial tablet on the south wall of the nave. 

"Within the church there is a marble tablet that was unveiled inside the church in 1921 in order to list those who had fallen in the First World War along with a similar tablet to commemorate four members of the Luard family who also died"

https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/st-alkmund-blyborough 

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image, war memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, War Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, War Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, Nave, War Memorial

War memorial tablet on the south wall of the nave. 

"Within the church there is a marble tablet that was unveiled inside the church in 1921 in order to list those who had fallen in the First World War along with a similar tablet to commemorate four members of the Luard family who also died"

https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/st-alkmund-blyborough 

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image, war memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Aisle, West Window
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Aisle, West Window
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Aisle, West Window

"At the restoration of this Church AD 1877 the 5 surviving children of JOHN and ELIZABETH LUARD erected the above window in loving memory of their parents and of the uncle who was their father's comrade in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo ... "

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image, Luard
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF SUSANNAH, SECOND DAUGHTER OF CHARLES DALBIAC ESQ:RE, WHO DIED SEPR: 4TH: 1842, AGED 80 YEARS"

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial

"TO THE MEMORY OF THEIR BELOVED DAUGHTERS, LOUISA & MARIA JANE LUARD, WHO DIED OF SCARLET FEVER, LOUISA ON THE 18TH OF APRIL 1845 AGED 19, AND MARIA JANE, ON THE 27TH OF THE SAME MONTH AGED 16, THIS TABLET IS DEDICATED, BY THE AFFLICTED PARENTS, CHARLES BOURRYAU & HENRIETTA LUARD, OF BLYBOROUGH HALL"

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Memorial

"IN THIS VAULT ARE DEPOSITED THE MORTAL REMAINS OF PETER JOHN LUARD, OF BLYBOROUGH (FORMERLY CAPTAIN IN THE 4TH DRAGOONS) WHO DIED MAY 23RD 1830, IN THE 76TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.

AND OF HIS WIFE LOUISA LUARD, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE CHARLES DALBIAC ESQUIRE, SHE DIED JANUARY 4TH 1831, IN THE 70TH YEAR OF HER AGE.

TO THE MEMORY OF THE BEST OF PARENTS THIS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED BY THEIR GRATEFUL CHILDREN"

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North chapel, Memorial
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North chapel, Memorial

"To the memory of Charles Bourryan Luard, Esq. of Blyborough Hall, eldest son of Peter John Luard, Esq. and Louisa his Wife, who was born on the 16th day of April 1785 ... died on the 26th day of May 1855 at Torquay, and was buried in the cemetry of that place.

The East window of this Church was errected by subscription from his family, Friends and Tenants"

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image, Luard
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Monument
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Monument
Blyborough, St Alkmund, North Chapel, Monument

"Freestanding tomb in north chapel restored in C19 with effigy of Robert Conyng, priest, died 1434, with damaged angels at pillowed head and griffin at feet"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063375?section=official-list-entry 

Local signage states "The tomb of Robert Conyng, died 1434. His head is supported on a cushion by angels, with a hound at his feet. He is wearing his Mass vestments decorated with water bougets. The inscription reads "Here lies Robert Conyng, sometime rector of this church, who died 3 May 1434. On whose soul God have mercy" 

DB 14 May 2023

Blyborough, Saint Alkmund Church, image, Robert Conyng
Blyton, St Martin, Chancel, Monument
Blyton, St Martin, Chancel, Monument
Blyton, St Martin, Chancel, Monument

"On the south wall of the chancel, a brass plate to the children of Sir John Wray of Wharton, d.1613 and 1615, in a square moulded stone surround"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064159 

DB 12 May 2019

Blyton, Saint Martin, church
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH, THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE REVEREND PENISTON LA TOUR, M.A. RECTOR OF BOOTHBY GRAFFOE IN THIS COUNTY, AND OF SCARBOROUGH IN THE COUNTY OF YORK: AND THE ELDEST SURVIVING DAUGHTER OF MR THOMAS MASON, FORMERLY OF THIS PARISH.

SHE DIED ON THE 7TH DAY OF MARCH 1851, IN THE 61ST YEAR OF HER AGE"

DB 5 June 2023

Boothby Graffoe, Saint Andrew, Church, image, PENISTON LA TOUR
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH, THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE REVEREND PENISTON LA TOUR, M.A. RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, AND OF SCARBOROUGH, IN THE COUNTY OF YORK

SHE DIED ON THE 7TH DAY OF MARCH 1851, IN THE 61ST YEAR OF HER AGE.

SHE WAS A WOMAN OF ENLARGED AND REFINED UNDERSTANDING OF AMIABLE AND BENEVOLENT DISPOSITION, AND OF TRUE PIETY.

THE REBUILDING OF THIS CHURCH WAS ACCOMPLISHED CHIEFLY THROUGH HER ZEAL AND EXERTIONS, AND SHE LAID THE FIRST STONE OF THE PRESENT EDIFICE, ON THE 23RD DAY OF JUNE 1841"

DB 5 June 2023

Boothby Graffoe, Saint Andrew, Church, image,PENISTON LA TOUR
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVD. PENISTON LA TOUR, M.A. RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, AND OF SCORBOROUGH N THE COUNTY OF YORK.

HE WAS BORN ON THE 18TH OF JUNE 1769: WAS INDUCTED TO THE RECTORY OF BOOTHBY GRAFFOE ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE PENISTON, FIRST VISCOUNT MELBOURNE, IN SEPTEMBER 1800, AND DIED ON THE 10TH NOVEMBER 1851"

DB 5 June 2023

Boothby Graffoe, Saint Andrew, Church, image
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT BLACKWALL, LATE OF WIRKSWORTH,IN THE COUNTY OF DERBY; WHO DIED ON THE 16TH DAY OF OCT. 1838, AGED 79 "BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD""

DB 5 June 2023

Boothby Graffoe, Saint Andrew, Church, image, ROBERT BLACKWALL
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Tower, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Tower, Memorial
Boothby Graffoe, St Andrew, Tower, Memorial

Church guide notes state :- 

"An interesting remainder of the earlier churches is under the Tower Window, which bears the following inscription:

INTERRED HERE LIES CHRISTIAN BERESFORDE A VERTUOUS MATRON ONE THAT FEARD THE LORD O DEATH UNCERTAINE THUS FOR TO DECEAVE US AND OF A CHRISTIAN DEARE THUS TO BEREAVE US YET MOURNE NOT CHRISTIANS CHRISTIAN IS NOT DEADE BUT LIKE A CHRISTIAN GONE TO CHRIST HER HEADE

OBIIT ANNO DOMINI 1626 AETATIS VICE SSIMO QUARTO"

DB 5 June 2023

Boothby Graffoe, Saint Andrew, Church, image, CHRISTIAN BERESFORDE
Boston, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Founder's Plaque
Boston, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Founder's Plaque
Boston, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Founder's Plaque

Holy Trinity's website states :- 

"It was a lightning strike in the early 1840s that gave a handful of worshipers the chance of having a parish church of their own.

Lightning destroyed Blades Mill and William Roy, the Rector of St Nicholas, Skirbeck, who had private means, seized the opportunity.

The Spilsby Road area was part of his parish.

In 1840 he had started things moving by having a room that was licensed for divine service.

By 1849 the new parish church of Holy Trinity, on the site where the mill used to stand, was consecrated by the Bishop of Lincoln"

https://www.holytrinityboston.org.uk/welcome/about-trinity/ 

DB 3 August 2019

Boston, Holy Trinity, Church
Boston, St Botolph, Chancel, Choir Stalls, Herbert Ingram
Boston, St Botolph, Chancel, Choir Stalls, Herbert Ingram
Boston, St Botolph, Chancel, Choir Stalls, Herbert Ingram

"Herbert Ingram (27 May 1811 – 8 September 1860) was a British journalist and politician. He is considered the father of pictorial journalism through his founding of The Illustrated London News, the first illustrated magazine. He was a Liberal politician who favoured social reform and represented Boston for four years until his early death in the shipwreck of the Lady Elgin"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Ingram 

DB 14 March 2022

Boston, St Botolph church Herbert Ingram
Boston, St Botolph, North Aisle, Memorial
Boston, St Botolph, North Aisle, Memorial
Boston, St Botolph, North Aisle, Memorial

The memorial in St Botolph’s church to Thomas Fydell (1740-1812) and his wife Elizabeth.

Fydell was three times Mayor of Boston, MP for the town from 1790-1803 and 1806-1812 and commandant of the Boston Volunteers. He was a wine merchant and banker.

Mark Acton, 2013

Boston, St Botolph church, Thomas Fydell, Elizabeth, Boston Volunteers
Boston, St Botolph, South Aisle, Monument
Boston, St Botolph, South Aisle, Monument
Boston, St Botolph, South Aisle, Monument

A knight of St John of Jerusalem. A Maltese Cross indicating his order hangs round his neck.

The order became connected with Skirbeck in the 13th century, and maintained two hospitals and St John's church.

The last Prior of the order, which was dissolved in 1540, was Sir William Weston whose famly had been connected with Boston from the 14th century.

The church of St John was demolished in 1626.

November 2018

Boston, St Botolph, monument, St John of Jersusalem, Maltese cross, William Weston
Boston, St Botolph, South Aisle, Monument
Boston, St Botolph, South Aisle, Monument
Boston, St Botolph, South Aisle, Monument

"This figure is believed to represent Dame Margaret Tilney "who layid the first stone of the goodly steple of the Paroche Church of Boston in 1309. The central shield on the black marble tomb had the arms of Tilney carved upon it in 1852, for which there was no warrant". 

DB 6 November 2019

Boston, St Botolph Church Monument, Dame Margaret Tilney
Boston, St Botolph, Tower, John Taverner
Boston, St Botolph, Tower, John Taverner
Boston, St Botolph, Tower, John Taverner

Memorial in the tower floor of St Botolph's Church, Boston.

"John Taverner (c. 1490 – 18 October 1545) was an English composer and organist, regarded as one of the most important English composers of his era. He is best-known for Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas and The Western Wynde Mass, and Missa Corona Spinea is also often viewed as a masterwork ... 

He is buried with his wife under the belltower at Boston Parish Church"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taverner 

DB 17 March 2022

Boston, St Botolph, Church, John Taverner, composer organist musician
Boston, St Botolph, Tower, Memorial
Boston, St Botolph, Tower, Memorial
Boston, St Botolph, Tower, Memorial

The Australia Memorial in St Botolph’s church commemorates the Lincolnshire explorers such as George Bass, Joseph Banks and John Franklin who helped to shape modern Australia.

Funds are currently being sought for its restoration (2013).

Mark Acton, 2013

Boston, St Botolph, Australia, Banks, Bass, Franklin
Branston, All Saints, Grave Slab (de Thistleton)
Branston, All Saints, Grave Slab (de Thistleton)
Branston, All Saints, Grave Slab (de Thistleton)

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"In the chancel is a slab of Purbeck marble, with a cross and Norman-French inscription to Richard de Thistleton, rector 1293-1309"

DB 5 December 2018

Branston, All Saints, Church, monument, Purbeck marble, Richard de Thistleton
Branston, All Saints, Monument (Bertie)
Branston, All Saints, Monument (Bertie)
Branston, All Saints, Monument (Bertie)

"IN THE VAULT NEAR THIS MONUMENT IS DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF THE RIGHT HON. LORD VERE BERTIE LATE OF BRANSTON IN THE COUNTY OF THE CITY OF LINCOLN ELDEST SON OF THE MOST NOBLE ROBERT THE FIRST DUKE OF ANCASTER AND KESTEVEN, MARQUIS AND EARL OF LINDSEY ...."

Monument in the north aisle erected by his widow in 1770.

DB 1 December 2018

Branston, All Saints, Church, monument, LORD VERE BERTIE
Branston, All Saints, Monument (Wray)
Branston, All Saints, Monument (Wray)
Branston, All Saints, Monument (Wray)

Monument "1736 to Sir Cecil Wray by Thomas Carter" in the north aisle

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360529 

Inscription states that the monument was erected some years before his death. 

DB 1 December 2018

Branston, All Saints, Church, Monument, Sir Cecil Wray, Thomas Carter
Bratoft, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial
Bratoft, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial
Bratoft, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Memorial

In memory of Rev. Charles George Ridley, Rector of Bratoft with Irby d.1897.

His eldest son Nicholas Charles Ridley was a prominent ophthalmologist " a founder and Past President (1915-1917) of the Midland Ophthalmological Society"

http://bjo.bmj.com/content/bjophthalmol/21/8/460.full.pdf 

DB 11 September 2022

Bratoft, St Peter & St Paul Church, Image, Charles George Ridley
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Chancel, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Chancel, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Chancel, Memorial

"SACRED TO TO THE MEMORY OF EDWARD WRIGHT ESQUIRE, OF BRATTLEBY, AND OF NORTH KELSEY, IN THIS COUNTY, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND DEPUTY LIEUTENANT OF LINCOLNSHIRE, WHO DIED AT BRATLEBY, JUSTLY ESTEEMED AND REGRETTED IN HIS 73RD YEAR, AUG: 9TH 1857. 

HE WAS FORMERLY A CAPTAIN OF MILITIA, BUT PASSED HIS LATER YEARS CHIEFLY IN IMPROVING HIS ESTATES, AS WELL AS THE CONDITION OF ALL AROUND HIM ... "

DB 14 May 2023

Brattleby, Saint Cuthbert, Church, image
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Chancel, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Chancel, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Chancel, Memorial

"TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF PHILIP CHETWOOD WRIGHT OF BRATTLEBY BORN 10 MAY 1866 DIED 22 AUG 1939 GREATLY LOVED HE WAS A DEPUTY LIEUTENANT & JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR LINDSEY & WAS MAJOR IN THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT AND A CHURCHWARDEN OF THIS PARISH"

Kelly's Directory 1905 has an entry "Brattleby Hall is the residence of Maj. Philip Chetwood Wright B.A., D.L., J.P., F.S.I. who is lord of the manor and landowner" 

DB 14 May 2023

Brattleby, Saint Cuthbert, Church, image, PHILIP CHETWOOD WRIGHT
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Nave, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Nave, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, Nave, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MARY ANNE, ONLY SURVIVING DAUGHTER OF THE REV. THOMAS DAWSON, SOME TIME INCUMBENT OF HARPSWELL IN THIS COUNTY, WHO DIED ON THE 15TH DAY OF MAY 1851 , AGED 69 YEARS"

DB 14 May 2023

Brattleby, Saint Cuthbert, Church, image, memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, North Aisle, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, North Aisle, Memorial
Brattleby, St Cuthbert, North Aisle, Memorial

"In the Aisle OF THIS CHURCH ARE INTERRED THE REMAINS OF JOHN SEXTY ESQR. WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 1ST 1820 AGED 61 YEARS TO WHOSE MEMORY HIS WIDOW ERECTS THIS TABLET AS A TOKEN OF HER AFFECTION"

DB 14 May 2023

Brattleby, Saint Cuthbert, Church, image, Sexty
Brinkhill, St Philip, Memorial (Cracroft)
Brinkhill, St Philip, Memorial (Cracroft)
Brinkhill, St Philip, Memorial (Cracroft)

On the north wall of the chancel is this tablet to a very long-serving rector.

‘TO THE MEMORY OF/ ROBERT WENTWORTH CRACROFT/ YOUNGEST SON OF ROBERT CRACROFT/ (AFTERWARDS AMCOTTS) ESQUIRE/ OF HACKTHORN IN THE COUNTY OF/ LINCOLN BY AUGUSTA HIS WIFE SEC’D/ DAUGHTER OF SIR JOHN INGILBY BART/ OF RIPLEY CASTLE IN YORKSHIRE, AND/ RECTOR FOR 54 YEARS OF THE PARISHES/ OF HARRINGTON AND BRINKHILL./ HE MARRIED IN 1864 THE HONBLE/ ELIZABETH CATHERINE LANE-FOX/ WHO DIED IN 1879. HE WAS BORN AT/ HARRINGTON HALL ON JUNE 15TH 1826/ AND DIED AT HARRINGTON RECTORY ON/ MARCH 22ND 1905 SINCERELY REGRETTED/ BY HIS MANY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS/ OF ALL CLASSES./ "I DWELL AMONG MINE OWN PEOPLE” 2.KINGS.IV.13/ (THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY)

Jean Howard 8 May 2024

Brinkhill, Saint Philip church
Brinkhill, St Philip, Memorial (Trolove)
Brinkhill, St Philip, Memorial (Trolove)
Brinkhill, St Philip, Memorial (Trolove)

J S Trolove was born in Walmsgate and farmed at Ketsby before moving to Brinkhill Manor. He died as a result of the horse pulling his trap bolting and turning into the drive at speed, hitting the gatepost and his being thrown to the ground. He left a widow, Emma and a family of 8 children. Two sons emigrated to New Zealand where their farm is called Brinkhill.

Jean Howard 8 May 2024

Brinkhill, Saint Philip church, Trolove
Brocklesby, All Saints, Memorial
Brocklesby, All Saints, Memorial
Brocklesby, All Saints, Memorial

Memorial on the south wall of the chancel. Difficult to read but seems to relate to the Pelham family.

DB 11 May 2024

Brocklesby, All Saints Church
Brocklesby, All Saints, War Memorial
Brocklesby, All Saints, War Memorial
Brocklesby, All Saints, War Memorial

First and Second World War Memorials.

"TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE MEN FROM BROCKLESBY AND LITTLE  LIMBER WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY 1914-1918 ... "

"1939 - 1945 SERGEANT J. BUTLER M.M SHERWOOD RANGERS YEOMANRY 23 NOVEMBER 1944 R.I.P"

DB 11 May 2024

Brocklesby, All Saints Church, war memorial
Brocklesby, All Saints, War Memorial, Lord Worsley
Brocklesby, All Saints, War Memorial, Lord Worsley
Brocklesby, All Saints, War Memorial, Lord Worsley

"An English battlefield cross"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/42983 

DB 11 May 2024

Brocklesby, All Saints Church, war memorial, battlefield cross
Brocklesby, All Saints, War Memorial, Lord Worsley
Brocklesby, All Saints, War Memorial, Lord Worsley
Brocklesby, All Saints, War Memorial, Lord Worsley

Brass plaque in the chancel although the sword mentioned was not evident.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/91183 

DB 11 May 2024

Brocklesby, All Saints Church
Brocklesby, All Saints, War Memorial, Roll of Honour
Brocklesby, All Saints, War Memorial, Roll of Honour
Brocklesby, All Saints, War Memorial, Roll of Honour

Dismounted Roll of Honour - located in the chancel when photographed.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54242 

DB 11 May 2024

Brocklesby, All Saints Church, Roll of Honour
Burgh on Bain, St Helen, Monument
Burgh on Bain, St Helen, Monument
Burgh on Bain, St Helen, Monument

"Semi-circular headed marble plaque with base and sunk circular heraldic panel commemorating late C18 members of the Lister family of Girsby Hall"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359948 

DB 9 September 2018

Burgh on Bain, Saint Helen, Church
Burgh on Bain, St Helen, Monument
Burgh on Bain, St Helen, Monument
Burgh on Bain, St Helen, Monument

"In the tower is a wall monument with white marble base and grey sarcophagus, flanked by heraldic cartouches and supporting an obelisk bearing a pair of oval carved panels of Thomas Pindar d.1741 and his wife, Ann"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359948 

DB 9 September 2018

Burgh on Bain, Saint Helen, Church, monument, Thomas Pindar
Burton Coggles, St Thomas Becket, effigy
Burton Coggles, St Thomas Becket, effigy
Burton Coggles, St Thomas Becket, effigy

The porch contains two effigies of knights, both cross-legged and wearing chain mail and surcoats.They are early 14th century in date.

This knight has his hand at his sword.

May 2015

Burton Coggles, St Thomas a Becket
Burton Coggles, St Thomas Becket, effigy
Burton Coggles, St Thomas Becket, effigy
Burton Coggles, St Thomas Becket, effigy

This effigy is of a knight is at prayer and lies underneath a canopy.

Like the other effigy in the porch, it dates from the early 14th century.

May 2015

Burton Coggles, St Thomas a Becket
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Elizabeth Catherine Yorke
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Elizabeth Catherine Yorke
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Elizabeth Catherine Yorke

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/ ELIZABETH CATHERINE YORKE/ RELICT OF THE LATE JAMES WHITING YORKE ESQ/ OF WALMSGATE IN THIS COUNTY/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 26TH DAY OF/ APRIL 1845 IN THE 73RD YEAR OF HER AGE/ THIS TABLET IS ERECTED/ AS A LAST THO' INADEQUATE MEMORIAL OF ONE/ WHOSE MATERNAL KINDNESS AND GENEROSITY/ CAN NEVER BE FORGOTTEN BY HER GRATEFUL AND/ AFFECTIONATE SON JAMES WHITING YORKE.

Jean Howard, August 2020

Burwell, Saint Michael, church, Monument Elizabeth Catherine Yorke
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Hugh Alington
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Hugh Alington
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Hugh Alington

An alabaster tablet with black columns either side and garlands at the foot.   Sadly the inscription is almost illegible but says:

Under this monument lieth interred the body of Hugh Alington of Stenigot in the County Lincoln. Ye son and heir of Henry Allington, Esq. Descended from the family of Alingtons of Horsett in the County of Cambridge who had to wife in second marriage Jane, the daughter of Sir Martin Lister, late of this place Kt. By who he had Issue Hugh and Barbara. Hugh died young in the life time of his father and lieth here also interred. Obijt Junij 3 1674. AETATIS SUAE 39

Jean Howard, August 2020

Burwell, Saint Michael, church, Monument Hugh Alington
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Matthew Bancroft Lister
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Matthew Bancroft Lister
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Matthew Bancroft Lister

Matthew Bancroft Lister was born in 1766 and served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire. He married Sophia Brinton.   The tablet reads:

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/ MATTHEW BANCROFT LISTER/ OF BURWELL PARK IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN/WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 14TH OCTOBER 1842/IN THE 77TH YEAR OF HIS AGE/ THIS TABLET IS INSCRIBED/ BY HIS AFFECTIONATE AND GRATEFUL FAMILY/ THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED.

By Bishop of London

Jean Howard, August 2020

Burwell, Saint Michael, church, Monument Matthew Bancroft Lister
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Matthew Dymoke Lister
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Matthew Dymoke Lister
Burwell, St Michael, Monument Matthew Dymoke Lister

An unusual tablet shaped like a sarcophagus surmounted by a draped urn before an obelisk.  

By Whitelaw of New Road, London.

IN MEMORY OF/MATTHEW DYMOKE LISTER ESQR/ WHO DIED FEBRUARY THE 9TH 1772 AGED 39 YEARS/ AND OF LYDIA/ ONLY CHILD OF JOSEPH BANCROFT MERCHANT OF MANCHESTER/ AND WIDOW OF THE ABOVE MATTHEW DYMOKE LISTER,/ (BY WHOM SHE HAD ISSUE, MATTHEW BANCROFT, JOHN JOSEPH, AND LYDIA BOUGHTON/ WHO DIED APRIL THE 28TH 1792 AGED 19 YEARS/ ALSO OF GRACE/ WIDOW OF SIR EDWARD BOUGHTON BART OF LAWFORD IN THE COUNTY OF WARWICK/ WIFE OF MATTHEW LISTER ESQR/ AND MOTHER OF THE ABOVE MATTHEW DYMOKE LISTER/ WHO DIED IN FEBRUARY 1779 AGED 77 YEARS/ THE ABOVE WERE BURIED IN THE VAULT UNDERNEATH/ ALSO IN MEMORY OF MATTHEW LISTER ESQR/ WHO DIED JANUARY THE 15TH 1786 AGED 79 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS/ AND WAS BURIED AT BRANT BROUGHTON, IN THE COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAM/ THIS MARBLE IS ERECTED BY THEIR DESCENDANT/ NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF DRAWING FORTH THEIR MERITS OR OF RECORDING/ THEIR VIRTUES BUT AS AN HUMBLE AND GRATEFUL TRIBUTE OF/ AFFECTION TO THEIR MEMORY

Jean Howard, August 2020

Burwell, Saint Michael, church, Monument Matthew Dymoke Lister
Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Effigy
Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Effigy
Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Effigy

This splendid life size effigy is of Sir John de Buslingthorpe who died c1340. He lies with his pillow supported by two angels and with a lion at his feet.

The remarkable state of preservation of this monument may in part be explained by the fact that it was discovered lying face downwards beneath the pulpit of the mediaeval church during Willson's restoration.

Jean Howard, July 2020

Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Sir John de Buslingthorpe, effigy, Willson
Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Memorial Brass
Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Memorial Brass
Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Memorial Brass

This demi-figure of Sir Richard Boselyngthorpe dates from c1290 making it one of the oldest brasses in England.

Note that his head rests on two cushions, the lower with ogee detailed corners, the upper placed on the diagonal.

Between his fingers can be seen a heart shape, leading to speculation that he died abroad and only his heart was returned for burial at Buslingthorpe.

Jean Howard, July 2020


Buslingthorpe, St Michael, Sir Richard Boselyngthorpe, brass
Caistor, SS. Peter & Paul, Memorial
Caistor, SS. Peter & Paul, Memorial
Caistor, SS. Peter & Paul, Memorial

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF HILARY  F.L.W.F.W.WESTBROOKE

BORN AT GORRINGHAM VICARAGE 14TH JANY 1881, ELDEST SON OF THE VICAR OF CAISTOR WHO, AFTER SERVING HIS COUNTRY IN THE CAPE MOUNTED RIFLES THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, 1899-1902, DIED AT YOLA, NORTHERN NIGERIA, ON 18TH OCTR 1907.

MAY HE REST IN PEACE

ERECTED BY HIS PARENTS, FRIENDS AND FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE CAISTOR CRICKET CLUB.

KING'S MEDAL. SOUTH AFRICA. 1902 SOUTH AFRICA, 1901.

QUEEN'S MEDAL WITTEBERGEN. TRANSVAAL. WEPENER. CAPE COLONY."

DB 8 July 2024

Caistor, Saint Peter & Paul Church
Caistor, SS. Peter & Paul, Memorial
Caistor, SS. Peter & Paul, Memorial
Caistor, SS. Peter & Paul, Memorial

 

DB 8 July 2024

Caistor, Saint Peter & Paul Church
Caistor, SS. Peter & Paul, Memorial
Caistor, SS. Peter & Paul, Memorial
Caistor, SS. Peter & Paul, Memorial

"Near this place lie interred the Remains of JOHN HARNEIS SWAN, who departed this Life March the 4th 1832, Aged 58 Years. to whose Memory this Tablet is affectionately erected by his surviving Widow.

Also of MARY, Wife of the above JOHN HARNEIS SWAN. who died March 30th 1846. Aged 76 Years.

Also of THEODOTIA MARY, only Child of the above JOHN HARNEIS and MARY SWAN, who died July the 16th 1820, in her 16th Year."

DB 8 July 2024

Caistor, Saint Peter & Paul Church
Cammeringham, St Michael, Memorial (Samuel Turner)
Cammeringham, St Michael, Memorial (Samuel Turner)
Cammeringham, St Michael, Memorial (Samuel Turner)

This tablet reads: Sacred/ to the Memory of/ SAMUEL TURNER,/ Late of BUSLINGTHORPE,/ in this COUNTY./ Also/ of ANN, his Wife/ who with two infant/ Children are interred/ near this place./ A.D. 1817. 

Samuel Turner appears to have owned land at Cammeringham, Buslingthorpe and Collingham.

Jean Howard 23 July 2024

Cammeringham, Saint Michael, church, samuel turner
Cammeringham, St Michael, Tyrwhitt Genealogy
Cammeringham, St Michael, Tyrwhitt Genealogy
Cammeringham, St Michael, Tyrwhitt Genealogy

Beginning with the symbol chi-rho, the text reads: THIS/ Monument is in Memorie/ of the most vertuous and religious/ Gentlewoman Mrs* Jane Tyrwhytt/ who was born in this Towne of Camringham/ ANNO DOM 1603, and She dyed in this Towne in/ December 1656. Her father Robert Tyrwhitt Esq./ was Lord of this Towne, who had Issue by his pious Wife Anne/ Bassett 8 Sons & 8 Daughters: Viz. Marmaduke, Robert, William/ Edmond, Francis, John, Thomas, Tristram; Elizabeth, Aletheia, Helen Dug-/ las, Ann, Jane, Marie & Ursula. Her Father dyed in December 1626. Her/ Mother dyed in December 1652, in the 88th Year of her Age. Marmaduke dyed in June/ who with his parents and this his Sister Jane are here by interred. He left three Sons and 2/ Daughters; his eldest Son Cecill Tyrwhit Esq is at present Lord of this Town. Robert ye 2d Sonne 2/ Robert was an emminent Servant to King Charles, He dyed in Hampton-Court-Pallace in Janu 1651/ and lyes in that Parish-Church under a Marble Monument. Edmund yet living was a Gentleman-Pensioner in/ Ordinary to the late King Charles. Francis dyed 1643 a Commander in the Warrs in Ireland & lyes Buried in Christ-/ Church in the City of Cork. Thomas Divine & Chaplain to the King. All the other Brothers died before their Parents./ Elizabeth married Sr Ferdinando Lee Knight, by whom She had one Son & 2 Daughters: She was a Lady of great Worth &/ Beauty; She dyed in the Isle of Man 1625. Her Daughter Elizabeth married first Francis Burdit Esq; then Sr John Kay, Kt./ & Baronett; by Both of them She hath divers Children now livinge: These Her two Husbands & her Father had their/ Births and Estates in the West-Rideing in York-shire. The Tyrwhyts are of great Antiquity in this County of LIN/ COLNE, they having Married into many great Families, (as may appear by the severall Quarterings in a Coat of/ Armes hereby annexed.) One Sir Robert Tyrwytt Knight & Bannerett was Vice-Admiral to King/ Henry the 7th. Another of them was Master of ye Horse to Queen Mary. The Bassetts also in their Gen-/ erations were of great Authority having been Barons, & allied to ye Crown & Companions/ of ye Order of the Garter, But this Mrs Jane Tyrwhitts chiefest Greatness was her Humi-/ litie, Chastity, Piety & Charity; for which She and her religious Mother were/ incomparable Patternes to their Sex./ In Memoria Aeterna erit Justus/ Hoc posuit huic familiae Amicissius./ 1657 

Jean Howard 23 July 2024

Cammeringham, Saint Michael, church, Tyrwhitt genealogy
Cammeringham, St Michael, Tyrwhitt Heraldry
Cammeringham, St Michael, Tyrwhitt Heraldry
Cammeringham, St Michael, Tyrwhitt Heraldry

The verse and the many quartered shield surely relate to Jane Tyrwhitt who died in 1657. The text reads: LOE HERE SHE SLEEPS IN SACRED DUST,/ UNTILL THE RISING OF THE JUST,/ UNTILL THE BRIDEGROM CALL AND SAY,/ A WAKE MY LOVE AND COME A WAY.

Jean Howard 23 July 2024

Cammeringham, Saint Michael, church, Tyrwhitt heraldry
Cammeringham, St Michael, Tyrwhitt Monument & Aumbry
Cammeringham, St Michael, Tyrwhitt Monument & Aumbry
Cammeringham, St Michael, Tyrwhitt Monument & Aumbry

The monument commemorates Jane Tyrwhitt who was born in 1603 and died in 1657. It is thought to be by the sculptor Edward Marshall. It shows her bust above surrounded by a swag of flowers.

Jean Howard 23 July 2024

Cammeringham, Saint Michael, church, Tyrwhitt Monument & Aumbry
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, Nave, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, Nave, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, Nave, Memorial

Located near the chancel arch on the wall of the south arcade. 

"IN MEMORY OF SARAH MARIA WIFE OF GEORGE SILLS OF HONINGTON SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 27TH OF AUGUST 1841 AT THE AGE OF 31 AND HER REMAINS WERE DEPOSITED IN THIS CHURCH YARD."

DB 12 February 2024

Carlton Scroop, Saint Nicholas Church
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, North Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, North Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, North Aisle, Memorial

"Marble wall plaque on north wall of north aisle to John Peachell, Gent., d. 1727, with open pediment, urns and floriated cartouche containing painted arms"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062428?section=official-list-entry  

"HERE LIE THE REMAINS OF JN. PEACHELL GENT AND SUSANNA HIS WIFE, HE DIED JAN: 17, 1727. ÆTAT: SUA 03. SHE QUITTED THIS MORTAL LIFE APRIL 13, 1782. AT THE AGE OF NINETY.

HERE ALSO LIES THE BODY OF LEWIS PEACHELL GENT: THEIR SON, WHO DIED NOV: 30. 1770. AGED 54.

THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED TO THEIR MEMORY BY THE PIETY OF ANNE HERON, DAUGR. OF THE ABOVE JOHN & SUSANNA, WHO DIED NOV: 22, 1786. AGED 68 AND WAS INTERR'D AT WESTBORO IN THIS COUNTY."

DB 12 February 2024

Carlton Scroop, Saint Nicholas Church
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF HAROLD FOOTITT. LANCE CORPORAL SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE YEOMANRY WHO LOST HIS LIFE ON THE 26TH OCTOBER 1945, WHILST SERVING WITH THE BRITISH FORCES IN GERMANY. GIVEN BY THE PARISHIONERS."

For further information see  

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54190 

DB 12 February 2024

Carlton Scroop, Saint Nicholas Church
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial

"three spirited though barbarous early C18 wall tablets with an urn, Death's Head, Cherubs and pyramidal pinnacles, all in the south aisle"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062428?section=official-list-entry  

The inscription appears to read :-

"In This Me Lyes three Children of Thomas Hurst GENT, & Anne his Wife Viz. CHARLES ANNE & WILLIAM who all Dyed in their infancy William the Last Interr,d ye 17th of January 1720

THOMAS HURST Esqr Father of these Children who departed this Life Feb.r ye 5. 1737 And lies Buried by them In this ile."

DB 12 February 2024

Carlton Scroop, Saint Nicholas Church
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial

"three spirited though barbarous early C18 wall tablets with an urn, Death's Head, Cherubs and pyramidal pinnacles, all in the south aisle"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062428?section=official-list-entry 

"Near This place lyes Interred ye body of Lewis Hurst Esq who Departed this life May ye 24th 1714 & in ye 59th year of his Age"

DB 12 February 2024

Carlton Scroop, Saint Nicholas Church, Lewis Hurst
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial
Carlton Scroop, St Nicholas, South Aisle, Memorial

"three spirited though barbarous early C18 wall tablets with an urn, Death's Head, Cherubs and pyramidal pinnacles, all in the south aisle"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062428?section=official-list-entry 

"Under this place lies ye body of Mrs Alice Hurst Wife of Lewis Hurst Gent, who Departed this life July ye 21st, 1700. & in ye 34th year of her Age."

DB 12 February 2024

Carlton Scroop, Saint Nicholas Church, Alice Hurst
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Plaque
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Plaque
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Plaque

Commemorative plaque inside the church.

October 2016

 

Carlton le Moorland, St Mary
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plate
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plate
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plate

"1611 brass wall plate W Robert Peterson"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360553 

Sacred to the memory of Robert Peterson and members of the Disney family.

Set in the north wall of the chancel and framed by a plaster frieze. 

DB 13 June 2018

Carlton le Moorland, Saint Mary, church, brass, Robert Peterson, Disney
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plate
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plate
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plate

Disney family memorial dated 1595 set in the north wall of the present vestry and framed by a plaster frieze. 

Disney family were major landowners in the parish prior to the English Civil War. 

Vestry was originally the north aisle lady chapel. 

DB 13 June 2018

Carlton le Moorland, Saint Mary, church, brass
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plates
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plates
Carlton le Moorland, St Mary, Brass Wall Plates

"5 small brass wall plates to Eastland and Tonge families dated individually, 1712, 1725, 1739, 1764 and 1765"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360553

Set high up on south wall of present vestry. 

DB 13 June 2018

Carlton le Moorland, Saint Mary, church, brass, Eastland, Tonge
Caythorpe, St Vincent, Chancel, Edmund Weaver Memorial
Caythorpe, St Vincent, Chancel, Edmund Weaver Memorial
Caythorpe, St Vincent, Chancel, Edmund Weaver Memorial

Memorial south chancel.

"In Memory of MR EDMUND WEAVER who by his own Industry from a low Education made very great Progress in the Liberal Arts and was justly Esteemed one of the best Astronomers of ye Age.

In Private Life a tender Husband an indulgent Father A quiet Neighbour A cheerful Companion A sincere Friend and a good Churchman. he Departed this Life in a faithful assurance of a better, Dec y 27, 1748 aged 65 years"

"an English astronomer, land surveyor, and friend to William Stukeley. Weaver's The British Telescope ephemerides (astronomical tables) is considered an important 18th-century publication on the movement of planets"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Weaver_(astronomer) 

Lincoln University, School of Mathematics and Physics, held the first annual Edmund Weaver Lecture in Astronomy on 11 October 2017.

DB 25 April 2018

Caythorpe, Saint Vincent, Church, Edmund Weaver, astronomer, land surveyor, Stukeley, ephemerides
Caythorpe, St Vincent, Nave, Hussey Monument
Caythorpe, St Vincent, Nave, Hussey Monument
Caythorpe, St Vincent, Nave, Hussey Monument

The monument to Sir Charles Hussey who died in 1664.

It is signed by W Palmer and actually dates from 1730.

January 2018

Caythorpe, St Vincent, Sir Charles Hussey, W Palmer
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial

"Monument to Robert Featherby, died 1834, of ashlar with inner 4 centred arch and angel brackets below"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064018?section=official-list-entry 

DB 14 May 2022

Cherry Willingham, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, image
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial

"TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM FEATHRBY, LATE ALDERMAN OF THE CITY OF LINCOLN, WHO TWICE SERVED THE OFFICE OF MAYOR HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH THE 26TH 1829, AGED 63 YEARS. 

ALSO OF SUSANNA,WIFE OF THE ABOVE WILLIAM FEATHERBY, WHO DIED NOVR. THE 30TH 1846, AGED 82 YEARS"

DB 14 May 2022

Cherry Willingham, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, image
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial

"Monument to John Harrowsmith, died 1840. Limestone ashlar with ornate crocketed and finialled gable, inner pointed cusped arch with nook shafts"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064018?section=official-list-entry 

DB 14 May 2022

Cherry Willingham, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, image, John Harrowsmith
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial

"Monument to Henry Hutton, died 1836, with grey marble shaped ground, white marble tomb chest with beribboned palms"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064018?section=official-list-entry 

DB 14 May 2022 

Cherry Willingham, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, Henry Hutton
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE REVD. GEORGE RIGG, VICAR OF THIS PARISH FOR TWENTY YEARS,WHO DIED IN THE COUNTY OF KENT ON GOOD FRIDAY THE 10TH APRIL 1868, AGED 63 YEARS, AND WAS INTERRED AT KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY LONDON. 

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS AFFECTIONATE BROTHER AND SISTER" 

DB 14 May 2022 

Cherry Willingham, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, Ggeorge Rigg
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial
Cherry Willingham, St Peter & St Paul, Memorial

"Monument to Thomas Becke, died 1757, founder and patron of the church who made a fortune in law 'without the sordid means of avaricious parsimony'. Ornate broken pediment with central cartouche with coat-of-arms. Flanking fluted ionic pilasters with central round headed niche with ornate keystone. Large moulded apron"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064018?section=official-list-entry 

DB 14 May 2022 

Cherry Willingham, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, Thomas Becke
Clixby, All Hallows, Interior, Ledger Slab
Clixby, All Hallows, Interior, Ledger Slab
Clixby, All Hallows, Interior, Ledger Slab

"Monument; before the altar steps a fine ledger slab to Robert Blanchard, Priest, C14, with Latin inscription round the margin, engraved with a crossfleury and chalice"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359798 

DB 19 May 2019

Clixby, All Hallows, Church, ledger slab, Robert Blanchard
Clixby, All Hallows, Interior, Monument
Clixby, All Hallows, Interior, Monument
Clixby, All Hallows, Interior, Monument

In memory of Agnes Dennison Hutchinson d.1922.

DB 19 May 2019

Clixby, All Hallows, Church
Coates by Stow, St Edith, memorial
Coates by Stow, St Edith, memorial
Coates by Stow, St Edith, memorial

The inscription under this figure reads: Here lyeth ye body of Brian Cooke of Doncaster in / the County of York Esq, who by Sara his wife / daughter and heire of Henry Riley Gent had issue / Brian / Alice who died young / William who died young / Susan / George / Sara / Henry / Margaret / he died upon the 27th of December 1653 / in the eightieth year of his age.

June 2013

Coates By Stow, St Edith church monument, Brian Cooke, Henry Riley
Coleby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Coleby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Coleby, All Saints, Chancel, Monument

Monument to Mary Lister d.1734.

Coleby Hall was built by the Listers in 1628. Kelly's Directory 1919 states "The Listers of Coleby filled the office of High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in the years 1624, 1625, 1644, 1669 and 1696, and Thomas Lister was in 1651 and 1653 a member of Cromwell's Council of State"

DB 9 May 2018 

Coleby, Kesteven, Church, All Saints, Image, Monument, Mary Lister
Coleby, All Saints, Chancel, Restoration
Coleby, All Saints, Chancel, Restoration
Coleby, All Saints, Chancel, Restoration

Brass plaque recording restoration of the chancel "SET IN ORDER ANEW AD 1864".

"Church restored carefully by F C Penrose in 1864"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1164829 

Kelly's Directory 1930 states " further improvements, including a restoration of the chancel, were carried out in 1864, under the direction of F. C. Penrose esq. architect, mainly as a memorial to the Rev. T. T. Penrose, for 33 years vicar of the parish, and the circumstances of this restoration are set forth in an inscription on brass from the pen of the late Right Hon. Sir J. T. Coleridge kt. chief justice of the Queen's Bench"

DB 9 May 2018 

Coleby, Kesteven, Church, All Saints, Image
Colsterworth, St John Baptist, grave slab
Colsterworth, St John Baptist, grave slab
Colsterworth, St John Baptist, grave slab

A memorial slab stone of 1684 to William Walker, Vicar of Colsterworth & Master of Grantham School.

He wrote a book on grammar titled "A Treatise of English Particles" & became known as "Particles" Walker. The inscription translates as "Here lie the particles of William Walker" and is attributed to his friend Isaac Newton.

Mark Acton, 2017

Colsterworth, William Walker
Colsterworth, St John Baptist, Isaac Newton's Sundial
Colsterworth, St John Baptist, Isaac Newton's Sundial
Colsterworth, St John Baptist, Isaac Newton's Sundial

Located on the north wall behind the organ.

"NEWTON: AGED 9 YEARS: CUT WITH HIS PENKNIFE THIS DIAL: THE STONE WAS GIVEN BY C.TURNOR ESQ AND PLACED HERE AT THE COST OF THE RT HON SIR WILLIAM ERLE A COLLATERAL DESCENDENT OF NEWTON 1877"

DB 17 May 2018

Colsterworth, St John baptist, church, Isaac Newton, Sundial, C.TURNOR, WILLIAM ERLE
Coningsby, St Michael, Chancel, Monument
Coningsby, St Michael, Chancel, Monument
Coningsby, St Michael, Chancel, Monument

"Marble wall plaque in chancel, in Greek taste to Mary and John Burnham, d.1841"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1215652?section=official-list-entry 

DB 23 March 2022

Coningsby, St Michael, Church, monument, Burnham
Corby Glen, St John the Evangelist, Monument
Corby Glen, St John the Evangelist, Monument
Corby Glen, St John the Evangelist, Monument

"In the north chapel an oval monument with elaborate roccoco surround to Frances Wilcox d.1764"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1309158 

DB 27 June 2018

Corby Glen, St John the Evangelist, Church, monument
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial

"A marble wall tablet in Greek taste to Sir John Beckett d.1847 is grouped with 3 other C19 Beckett memorials in the chancel"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064162?section=official-list-entry  

"THE RIGHT HONBLE SIR JOHN BECKETT, BART. OF SOMERBY PARK. IN THIS COUNTY; A BENCHER OF THE INNER TEMPLE, AND FORMERLY A FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. HE WAS BORN MAY 17TH 1775, DIED MAY 31ST 1847, AGED 72 YEARS . 

EMINENT AS A SCHOLAR, A LAWYER, AND A POLITICIAN. HE FILLED VARIOUS OFFICES IN THE STATE WITH FIDELITY AND HONOR, AND WAS A PRIVY COUNCELLOR FOR THE LONG PERIOD OF THIRTY YEARS. 

HE WAS HONORED BY THE REGARD AND FRIENDSHIP OF TWO SUCCESSIVE SOVEREIGNS, AND LIVED ON TERMS OF CLOSE INTIMACY, WITH THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS CHARACTERS OF HIS DAY. 

HIS VARIOUS KNOWLEDGE AND DISCERNING JUDGMENT MADE HIM MOST VALUABLE IN COUNCIL. HE WAS ALIKE DISTINGUISHED FOR THE INFLEXIBILITY OF HIS PRINCIPLE. HIS EARNEST ZEAL IN SUPPORT OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH HIS UPRIGHTNESS AND INTEGRITY AS A PUBLIC MAN, AS FOR THE UNVARYING COURTESY AND KINDNESS WITH WHICH HE FULFILLED ALL THE DUTIES OF PRIVATE LIFE 

HIS REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN THE VAULT OF HIS GREAT-GRANDFATHER, EDMUND, LORD BISHOP OF LONDON, AT FULHAM, IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, AND THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW, THE LADY ANNE BECKETT; FOURTH DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM, 1ST EARL OF LONSDALE, K.G." 

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image, Sir John Beckett
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVD GEORGE BECKETT, M.A. LATE OF TRIN. COLL. CAMBRIDGE. YOUNGEST SON OF SIR JOHN BECKETT BART. OF LEEDS, AND OF SOMERBY PARK, IN THIS PARISH. HE WAS PREBENDARY OF CORRINGHAM CUM STOW, RECTOR OF EPWORTH, AND VICAR OF GAINSBOROUGH.

HE WAS A LEARNED DIVINE AND AN ACCOMPLISHED SCHOLAR AND WAS MUCH LOVED IN PRIVATE LIFE FROM THE BENEVOLENCE OF HIS DISPOSITION.

HE DIED IN LONDON, AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS, ON THE 13TH OF APRIL 1843, IN THE 51ST YEAR OF HIS AGE. HIS REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED AT FULHAM, IN MIDDLESEX, IN THE VAULT OF HIS GREAT GRANDFATHER, EDMUND, LORD BISHOP OF LONDON"

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image, GEORGE BECKETT
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF SIR JOHN BECKETT BART, OF SOMERBY PARK IN THIS PARISH AND OF LEEDS IN THE COUNTY OF YORK, HE DIED SEPR 18TH 1826, IN THE 84TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.

ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF DAME MARY BECKETT, RELICT OF THE ABOVE NAMED SIR JOHN BECKETT, SHE DIED FEBRY 21ST 1833 IN THE 84TH YEAR OF HER AGE.

THEIR REMAIN ARE DEPOSITED IN THE CHOIR OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF LEEDS

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image, SIR JOHN BECKETT
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial

"To the glory of God and in memory of Sir Thomas Beckett Bart. of Somerby in this Parish. Born 1st January 1779 Died 17th Novr 1872. The east window in the chancel of this Church is erected by his daughters Mary Beckett + Dame Elizabeth Bacon"

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image, Sir Thomas Beckett
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial

"In the north wall is a C17 brass to Clifford"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064162?section=official-list-entry 

White's Directory 1856 notes "One of the monuments, dated 1628, has kneeling figures of the Rev. Henry Clifford, his wife, and three sons"

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image, brass Clifford
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, Memorial

"In the north wall is ... an unusual painted metal panel dated 1631 with decorated borders and shield"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064162?section=official-list-entry

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, War Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, War Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, Chancel, War Memorial

"SACRED to the Memory of RICHARD BECKETT of the Coldstream Regiment of Guards who fell at the Battle of Talavera de la Reyna in SPAIN, on the 28th of July 1809, aged 27 Years.

He was killed by a Musket Shot while actively discharging his Duty as Brigade Major to the Brigade of Guard, which formed Part of the British Army in that memorable Engagement. 

"Dulce et decorum est pro Patria mori",

This Tablet is erected by the afflicted Father of a dutiful and dearly beloved Son" 

Google Translate renders the Latin phrase as "It is sweet and glorious to die for the fatherland".

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image, RICHARD BECKETT, Battle of Talavera
Corringham, St Laurence, South Aisle, Warrior Chapel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, South Aisle, Warrior Chapel, Memorial
Corringham, St Laurence, South Aisle, Warrior Chapel, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF SIR THOMAS BECKETT BARONET, OF SOMERBY PARK IN THIS COUNTY. HE WAS BORN JANUARY 1ST 1779 AND DIED NOVEMBER 17TH 1872. HIS REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN A VAULT IN THE CHANCEL OF THIS CHURCH. 

HE SUCCEEDED HIS BROTHER THE RIGHT HONBLE SIR JOHN BECKETT BARONET, IN 1847; HE COMMENCED THE INCLOSURE OF HIS ESTATES IN THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD IN 1848: THIS WORK HE LIVED TO SEE COMPLETED.

THIS TABLET WAS, ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY, BY THE TENANTS OF HIS CORRINGHAM AND SPRINGTHORPE ESTATES, AS A TOKEN OF THE HIGH ESTEEM IN WHICH HE WAS HELD BY THEM AS A LANDLORD.

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, image, SIR THOMAS BECKETT
Corringham, St Laurence, South Aisle, Warrior Chapel, Reredos
Corringham, St Laurence, South Aisle, Warrior Chapel, Reredos
Corringham, St Laurence, South Aisle, Warrior Chapel, Reredos

Plaque attached to the wooden reredos. 

"TO THE MEMORY OF THE AIRCREW WHO DIED ON A TRAINING FLIGHT OVER CORRINGHAM ON 16 DECEMBER 1943"

DB 14 May 2023

Corringham, Saint Laurence Church, war memorial
Covenham St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Covenham St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Covenham St Mary, Chancel, Monument

"Small brass to Sir John Skipwith who died in 1400, showing the deceased in full plate armour with sword, misericord, feet resting on a lion.

This was removed from the church at Covenham St. Bartholomew"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063109 

DB 8 September 2019


Covenham St Mary, Church
Covenham St Mary, Chancel, Tomb Recess
Covenham St Mary, Chancel, Tomb Recess
Covenham St Mary, Chancel, Tomb Recess

"Fine C14 tomb recess with moulded ogee surround and pierced cusped tracery.

Attached to the rear wall of the recess is a small brass to Sir John Skipwith who died in 1400, showing the deceased in full plate armour with sword, misericord, feet resting on a lion. This was removed from the church at Covenham St. Bartholomew"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063109 

DB 8 September 2019

Covenham St Mary, Church
Cranwell, St Andrew, War Memorial
Cranwell, St Andrew, War Memorial
Cranwell, St Andrew, War Memorial

The First World War memorial to the fallen of the village.

Mark Acton, 2017

Cranwell, St Andrew, First World War memorial
Croft, All Saints, Memorial
Croft, All Saints, Memorial
Croft, All Saints, Memorial

Flying Officer Rene Jean Charles Alfred Dupraz was on a training exercise flying from RAF Kirton in Lindsey. He lost control flying in bad weather and the Spitfire dived into the ground. He was 23.

Jean Howard 17 February 2024

Croft, All Saints Church, war memorial plaque, Rene Jean Charles Alfred Dupraz
Croft, All Saints, Memorial
Croft, All Saints, Memorial
Croft, All Saints, Memorial

Croft All Saints John Searby tablet.

A simple marble plaque with gold lettering which reads: IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ JOHN SEARBY OF CROFT/ BORN JANUARY 24TH 1854,/ DIED JULY 22ND 1934/ CHURCHWARDEN 1889-1916

Jean Howard 17 February 2024

Croft, All Saints Church, John Searby
Croft, All Saints, Memorial Brass
Croft, All Saints, Memorial Brass
Croft, All Saints, Memorial Brass

Late thirteenth or early fourteenth century brass of a knight wearing chain mail. Only the head, shoulders and arms are preserved from what at one time was probably a complete figure.

This is said to be one of the four or five earliest surviving brasses in England.

May 2016

Croft, All Saints, brass, chain mail
Croft, All Saints, Memorial Brass
Croft, All Saints, Memorial Brass
Croft, All Saints, Memorial Brass

The brass inscription from a memorial to the vicar's wife from the early seventeenth century.

May 2016

Croft, All Saints, brass, Agnes Worship, William Worship
Croft, All Saints, Monument (John Browne)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (John Browne)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (John Browne)

Alabaster monument to John Browne (died 1614).

Mark Acton, 2016

Croft, All Saints, monument, John Browne
Croft, All Saints, Monument (John Browne)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (John Browne)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (John Browne)

An alabaster monument to John Browne, one of the seven sons of Valentine Browne, who died in 1614 and his wife Cicely. Unlike the other similar monument to his parents no children are depicted below the adult figures. Sad to say, the crack in the wall to the left of the monument has still not been repaired since being photographed in 2016.

Jean Howard 17 February 2024

Croft, All Saints Church, John Browne Monument
Croft, All Saints, Monument (Valentine Brown)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (Valentine Brown)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (Valentine Brown)

All Saints, Croft. Alabaster monument to Sir Valentine Brown (died 1600).

Mark Acton, 2016

Croft, All Saints, Monument, Sir Valentine Brown
Croft, All Saints, Monument (Valentine Brown)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (Valentine Brown)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (Valentine Brown)

Croft All Saints Valentine Browne monument

Within the sanctuary to the north of the altar is the alabaster monument to Valentine Browne who died in 1600, and his wife Elizabeth with a seemingly tall family of eight sons and seven daughters depicted in the lower panels.

Jean Howard 17 February 2024

Croft, All Saints Church, Valentine Browne monument
Croft, All Saints, Monument (William Bonde)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (William Bonde)
Croft, All Saints, Monument (William Bonde)

Rather squeezed into the junction of the south chapel and the chancel arch is this relatively plain monument to William Bonde who died in 1559.

It consists of a high plinth with geometric shallow moulding, a text panel between two columns and above, a skull and a coat of arms.

The inscription reads: HERE LYETH WILLYAM BONDE GENTLMAN,/ WHOE DYED ANO DOM 1559 LEAVING TWO/ SONNES, NICHOLAS DOCTOR IN DIVINITIE,/ AND GEORGE DOCTOR IN PHYSICKE, THE/ ELDER SONNE, WHO DYED THE ……………./ ……. ET ETATIS … AND HERE IS BURYED./ WHICH IN REMEBRANCE OF HIS MOST KYND/ FATHER HATH ERECTED THIS LYTLE MONIMENT.

Nicholas Bonde was President of Magdalen College Oxford 1590-1608.

Jean Howard 17 February 2024

Croft, All Saints Church, William Bonde monument
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Chancel, Floor Slabs
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Chancel, Floor Slabs
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Chancel, Floor Slabs

C18 floor slabs in memory of John Bourne and other members of his family.

DB 5 October 2024

Dalby Church of Saint Lawrence & Bishop Edward King
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Nave, Memorial (Garfit)
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Nave, Memorial (Garfit)
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Nave, Memorial (Garfit)

"TO THE MEMORY OF MABEL ELEANOR GARFIT WIFE OF BARTHOLOMEW CLAYPON GARFIT OF DALBY AND DAUGHTER OF THE REV. JOHN BERIDGE SPARROW OF ALGARKIRK

BORN 10TH AUGUST 1861

DIED 20TH JANUARY 1947

A FAITHFUL WORSHIPPER IN THIS CHURCH"

DB 5 October 2024

Dalby Church of Saint Lawrence & Bishop Edward King
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Nave, Memorial (J.Llanden)
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Nave, Memorial (J.Llanden)
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Nave, Memorial (J.Llanden)

"Good alabaster wall memorial to Julyan Llanden, 1617. The apron is decorated with a coloured shield and the crown with a small coloured kneeling female figure, carved in low relief."

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359689?section=official-list-entry 

"HERE RESTETH THE BODY OF JULYAN SECOND DAUGHTER TO JAMES MAYNWARING OF CROXTON IN THE COUNTY OF CHESTER ESQR & FIRST WIFE TO SR PHILIP LLANDEN NOW KNIGHT WITH WHOM HAVING LIVED NOT FULL 7 YEARS SHE LEFT THIS EARTHLY TABERNACLE TO LIVE WITH HER IMMORTAL SPOUSE CHRIST JESUS UPON YE 11TH OF JUNE 1617 SHE HAD BY HER SAYD HUSBAND 2 SONNES WHO BOTH LYE BURYED BESIDE HER"

DB 5 October 2024

Dalby Church of Saint Lawrence & Bishop Edward King
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Nave, Memorial (Tyler)
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Nave, Memorial (Tyler)
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Nave, Memorial (Tyler)

"The wall tablet to Revd. Willm. Tyler, 1808, is surmounted by an urn."

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359689?section=official-list-entry  

"To the Memory of the Revd WILLM. TYLER, who departed this life July 14th 1808, Aged 59; and who faithfully served this Church 26 Years.

Also of ANN his Widow, who died at Clifton in Gloucestershire, on the 28th of May 1825, in the 80th Year of her Age. Her trust was in the Lord, and her end was peace."

DB 5 October 2024

Dalby Church of Saint Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, William Tyler
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Nave, Monument, (W.Llanden)
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Nave, Monument, (W.Llanden)
Dalby, St Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Nave, Monument, (W.Llanden)

"Further alabaster wall memorial to William Llanden and his wife, 1631. The decorative apron also with a coloured shield. Over the inscription tablet are 2 coloured kneeling figures flanked by single Corinthian columns supporting an entablature with coloured cartouche."

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359689?section=official-list-entry 

"NEERE TO THIS PLACE LYETH THE BODIES OF WILLIAM LLANDEN ESQ AND ALICE HIS WIFE WHO LIVED TOGETHER NEERE 4OTE YEARS THEY HAD ISSUE 4 SONNES & 1 DAUGHTER ... "

DB 5 October 2024

Dalby Church of Saint Lawrence & Bishop Edward King, Llanden
Denton, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument

"C14 figure of a priest, partly sunk into a slab, with ogee headed surround"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062370 

DB 16 September 2018

Denton, Saint Andrew, Church
Denton, St Andrew, North Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, North Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, North Aisle, Monument

"In the north aisle a marble wall monument to Richard Welby of 1714 by Thomas Green of Camberwell.

The fully wigged standing life sized figure of the deceased stands in an arched surround flanked by fluted pilasters with acanthus scrolls and broken segmental pediment contaning a cherub and putti leaning down from heaven holding a metal coronet, surmounted by an achievement.

Beneath is the inscription panel and to either side putti holding memento mori, and mourning, one with tears"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062370 

DB 16 September 2018

Denton, Saint Andrew, Church, Richard Welby, Monument, Thomas Green
Denton, St Andrew, North Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, North Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, North Aisle, Monument

"A large white marble wall plaque containing a long inscription recording the history of the Williams and Gregory families, by Susannah Gregory who died in 1755 aged 84.

By Thomas Taylor.

At the foot a skull, bats wings, eternal serpent, hour glass"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062370

DB 16 September 2018

Denton, Saint Andrew, Church, Monument, Susannah Gregory, Thomas Taylor
Denton, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument

"In the south aisle a wall monument to Johannes Blyth, d.1602, in ashlar.

The latin raised letter inscription is set in an egg and dart surround, flanked by Ionic pilasters and free standing Composite fluted columns, supporting a pediment containing a pair of naked female figures holding hour glasses leaning on a skull.

The frieze is decorated with medallions.

The reclining figure of the deceased his prayer book in hand lies on a half rolled up mattress on a tomb chest on which are portrayed his wife and 6 children, all named in raised letter"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062370 

DB 16 September 2018

Denton, Saint Andrew, Church, monument, Johannes Blyth
Denton, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument
Denton, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument

More modern Welby memorial in the form of a comet.

DB 16 September 2018

Denton, Saint Andrew, Church, Welby, memorial
Doddington,&nbspSt&nbspPeter, Monument
Doddington, St Peter, Monument
Doddington, St Peter, Monument

Monument to Henry George Jarvis who died of fever in Grenada 1838.

Captain in the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/70th_(Surrey)_Regiment_of_Foot 

The Regiment "returned to the West Indies in January 1838 and took up residence in Barbados".

DB 11 August 2018

Doddington, St Peter, Church, Monument, 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot
Donington on Bain, St Andrew, Memorial
Donington on Bain, St Andrew, Memorial
Donington on Bain, St Andrew, Memorial

"C17 memorial to Thomas Kent, poet"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063688 

"Both Chrysostome and Polycarpe in one

United lye interd beneath this stone

This one a Phoenix was all eminent

The learned prudent pious Thomas Kent

Late Rector of this church as whileome were

His good old father & his Brother deere

Fame hath his praise, ye world his life well spent

His spirit heaven, his bones this monument"

DB 9 September 2018

Donington On Bain, Saint Andrew, church, Thomas Kent, Poet, memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Chancel, Flinders
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Chancel, Flinders
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Chancel, Flinders

Flinders family memorials on the north wall of the chancel. Local signage states :-

"The above memorials to the Flinders Family were the result of part of an extensive will of Captain Matthew Flinders made on 6th July 1812. He expressed a wish that four marble slabs were to be set up, with the permission of the Minister and the Churchwardens of the Parish Church at Donington, on the wall facing the  Communion Door of the Church. The slabs were to be engraved with inscriptions to the memory of his great grandfather (John Flinders, 1682-1741), his grandfather (John Flinders, 1713-1776), his father (Matthew Flinders, 1750-1802) and himself. Ann Flinders, the widow of Matthew, is said to have paid £101 for the slabs.

Subsequently three other memorials were added. One was for Elizabeth Flinders, the second wife of Matthew's father who died in 1841, another for Joseph Dodd, husband of Hannah Flinders, half sister to Matthew, and at the base the memorial to Lt Samuel Ward Flinders, Matthew's brother, who sailed with him twice to Australia. Samuel died in 1834."

DB 10 August 2024 

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Captain Matthew Flinders RN, Australia, Mauritius
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Chancel, Flinders
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Chancel, Flinders
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Chancel, Flinders

"IN MEMORY OF CAPTAIN MATTHEW FLINDERS, R.N. WHO DIED JULY 19TH 1814, AGED 40 YEARS.

AFTER HAVING TWICE CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE, HE WAS SENT BY THE ADMIRALTY IN THE YEAR 1801, TO MAKE DISCOVERIES ON THE COAST OF TERRA AUSTRALIS. RETURNING FROM THIS VOYAGE HE SUFFERED SHIPWRECK, AND BY THE INJUSTICE OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT WAS IMPRISONED SIX YEARS IN THE ISLAND OF MAURITIUS.

IN 1810, HE WAS RESTORED TO HIS NATIVE LAND, AND NOT LONG AFTER WAS ATTACKED BY AN EXCRUCIATING DISEASE, THE ANGUISH OF WHICH HE BORE UNTIL DEATH WITH UNDEVIATING FORTITUDE.

HIS COUNTRY WILL LONG REGRET THE LOSS OF ONE WHOSE EXERTIONS IN HER CAUSE WERE ONLY EQUALLED BY HIS PERSEVERANCE:

BUT HIS FAMILY WILL MOST DEEPLY FEEL THE IRREPARABLE DEPRIVATION.

THEY DO NOT MERELY LAMENT A MAN OF SUPERIOR INTELLECT, THEY MOURN AN AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND, A TENDER FATHER, A KIND BROTHER, AND A FAITHFUL FRIEND."

DB 10 August 2024 

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Captain Matthew Flinders
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Chancel, Tiles & Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Chancel, Tiles & Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Chancel, Tiles & Memorial

Decorative tiled floor in the chancel.

A memorial brass incorporated in the floor reads " The Revd John Wilson, Vicar Died November 10th 1850, Aged 92 years."

DB 10 August 2024

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, tile
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Chancel, Wilson Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Chancel, Wilson Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Chancel, Wilson Memorial

Church Guide notes state :-

"John Wilson ministered as Curate of Donington Church for the absent Robert Pugh from 1796 to 1835 and solely as Vicar until his death in 1850, a total of 54 years. This coincided with the years that Matthew Flinders was on his two major expeditions to Terra Australis. The Rev. Wilson built up a large library, now in Lincoln. The Memorial also includes his wife Hannah Charlotte Wilson who died aged 42 in 1809 while Rev. John Wilson died in 1850 aged 92 years."

DB 10 August 2024 

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, John Wilson Memoria
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, Cole Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, Cole Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, Cole Memorial

Memorial at the east end of the nave above the pulpit. 

"WITH THANKSGIVING TO GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF HENRY PETER COLE, BA. VICAR OF DONINGTON, 1945 -1949. DIED APRIL 14TH 1949, AGED 66 YEARS.

HE TAUGHT AS A LEARNER. HE LED AS A FOLLOWER, AND SET THE FEET OF MANY, UPON THE WAY OF LIFE."

DB 10 August 2024 

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, Dods Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, Dods Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, Dods Memorial

Memorial at the east end of the nave. 

"REMEMBER IN PRAYER THE SOULS OF HAROLD DODS OF DONINGTON WHO DIED OCTOBER 13th 1948, AGED 81 YEARS. AND OF HAROLD WILLIAM DODS HIS SON. LIEUTENANT OF THE SCOTS GUARDS. KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE JUNE 18th 1944. AGED 35 YEARS.

"O GRAVE. WHERE IS THY VICTORY."

DB 10 August 2024

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Dods
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, Ledger Stone
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, Ledger Stone
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, Ledger Stone

Church Guide notes :-

"The simple burial site of Thomas Cowley, Gentleman in the central aisle of the Church is that of a successful business man from London who retired to Donington, bought 700 acres of land and other features including the Red Cow Hotel and lived at Wikes Manor. He founded a free school in 1719 and charitable trusts with the income from his land"

DB 10 August 2024  

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Thomas Cowley
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, Memorial

At the west end of the nave. 

"This is IN MEMORY OF Mary the beloved Wife of mr Robert Long who departed this life the 29th day of Jan: 1716 In the 31st Year of Her Age ... "

"At the west end a classical scrolled plaque with flowers, fruit and memento mori to Mary Long, d.1716."

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 August 2024 

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Mary Long
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, Memorial & Benefaction
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, Memorial & Benefaction
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Nave, Memorial & Benefaction

Brass plaque beneath the west window. 

"ENOCH MILLSON ESQRE of Moorgate Street, London, & of "Dial House" in this Town by his Will, dated 24th March 1882, bequeathed sums amounting to £500, to be expended in a Memorial Window in the Parish Church "in commemoration of himself and of the WILLSON FAMILY, inhabitants of this Parish. The Testator also left the residue of his Estate to Trustees upon certain trusts for "poor deserving persons in Donington irrespective of creed" & otherwise for the benefit of the inhabitants of Donington. The Testator died 18th May 1882, and this West Window has been filled with Stained Glass pursuant to the bequest A.D. 1884."

DB 10 August 2024 

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, ENOCH MILLSON
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, North Aisle, Flinders
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, North Aisle, Flinders
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, North Aisle, Flinders

"Captain Matthew Flinders RN

Born in Donington

16th March 1774

Died in London

19th July 1814

Explorer of Australia

Reinterred in Donington

13th July 2024"

Signage in Donington reads :-

"Sadly St James' Gardens Burial Ground Euston, where Matthew was laid to rest in 1814 was partially demolished by the westward expansion of Euston Station in 1840.

While the graves remained, his headstone, along with hundreds of others was removed, and it was thought that his remains had been lost forever.

But then in 2019, archaeologists working on the HS2 project in Euston announced that among the 40,000 other human remains, uncovered during their work, they had identified Captain Matthew Flinders grave by the lead breast plate placed on top of his coffin.

Following discussions, it was finally agreed that his remains should return to the village of his birth, and will be interred beneath a black marble ledger stone under the floor of St Mary & the Holy Rood Church.

His will be the first burial inside the Church in over a century."

DB 31 July 2024

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Flinders
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, North Aisle, Gleed Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, North Aisle, Gleed Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, North Aisle, Gleed Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ANN THE WIFE OF JONATHAN GLEED, WHO DIED 27TH OCTOBER 1813 AGED LXXI.

ALSO THOMAS ARNALL GLEED, THEIR ELDEST SON WHO DIED13TH FEBRUARY1814 AGED XXXIX.

ALSO JONATHAN GLEED GENT WHO DIED 17TH MARCH 1820 AGED LXXII."

DB 10 August 2024 

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Gleed
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, North Aisle, Gleed Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, North Aisle, Gleed Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, North Aisle, Gleed Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF RICHARD GLEED, ESQUIRE. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 29TH DAY OF JUNE 1846. AGED 70.

OF HIM IT MAY TRULY BE RECORDED, THAT HE SOUGHT 'TO DO JUSTLY, AND TO LOVE MERCY, AND TO WALK HUMBLY WITH HIS GOD" MICAH VI _ 8.

ALSO OF ANN HIS WIDOW WHO DIED 24TH JULY 1859. AGED 84."

DB 10 August 2024 

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, RICHARD GLEED
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Birks Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Birks Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Birks Memorial

Church Guide Notes state :-

"Memorial to Anthony Birks. Anthony Birks, and his brother John were masters at the Thomas Cowley School in Donington and produced a book 'Arithmetical Collections and Improvements' in 1766. The memorial tablet is to the lives of Anthony and his wife Elizabeth" 

Anthony Birks was co author of :-

"Arithmetical collections and improvements. Being a complete system of practical arithmetic.

By Anthony and John Birks, Late Masters of a Boarding-School at Gosberton, and now of the Free Writing-School at Donington, Lincolnshire"

Copies are available in facsimile edition and free to download.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FEtgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1&lpg=PR1&dq=donington+school+birks+arithmetic&source=bl&ots=p5vq0jtrJm&sig=t797WSCQH1kKCBgxo51Mw0TqYoc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiByYy49eHaAhWBV8AKHbK3CG4Q6AEIaTAG#v=onepage&q=donington%20school%20birks%20arithmetic&f=false  

DB 10 August 2024 

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Anthony Birks
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Bothamley Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Bothamley Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Bothamley Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF RICHARD BOTHAMLEY, WHO DIED OCT. 8TH 1907, AGED 80 YEARS.

There the weary be at rest."

DB 10 August 2024

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, RICHARD BOTHAMLEY
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Drinkall Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Drinkall Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Drinkall Memorial

"REMEMBER JOHN THOMAS DRINKALL. M.A., M.ED., B.D., PH.D., PRIEST AND SCHOOLMASTER BORN 6TH AUGUST 1919 DIED 11TH NOVEMBER 1981."

DB 10 August 2024

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, JOHN THOMAS DRINKALL
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Elson Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Elson Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Elson Memorial

Plaque on vestry at the west end of the south aisle. 

"THIS VESTRY WAS BUILT IN MEMORY OF : GEORGE ALFRED ELSON M.A.

BORN 23RD FEB. 1874 DIED 24TH MAR. 1966

VICAR OF DONINGTON 1927 TO 1945 BY HIS WIFE AND FORMER PARISHIONERS 1968.

FOR TO ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST, AND TO DIE IS GAIN."

DB 10 August 2024

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Gleed Window
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Gleed Window
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Gleed Window

IN MEMORY OF RICHARD GLEED ESQ JP AND CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL SOUTH LINCOLN MILITIA. HE WAS BORN 14 NOVEMBER AD 1831 AND DIED 14 MARCH AD 1876. ALSO IN MEMORY OF MARGARET HIS WIFE. SHE WAS BORN 11 NOVEMBER AD 1832 AND DIED 29 MARCH AD 1877. THIS WINDOW IS JOINTLY ERECTED BY THE FRIENDS OF CAPTAIN GLEED AND BY JOHN DAUBER ESQ FATHER OF MRS GLEED.

DB 10 August 2024

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Holland Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Holland Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Holland Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF MARY HOLLAND, WHO DIED AUGUST 16TH. 1826, AGED 35 YEARS.

ALSO 5 CHILDREN WHO DIED IN THEIR INFANCY.

ALSO OF THOMAS, THE HUSBAND OF MARY HOLLAND, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE APRIL 29 1862 AGED 73 YEARS."

DB 10 August 2024 

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Holland
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Hunt Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Hunt Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Hunt Memorial

"REMEMBER IN PRAYER FREDERICK W. P. HUNT, B.A., HEADMASTER AND CHURCHWARDEN 20TH NOV. 1905 - 14TH SEPT. 1988

AND HIS WIFE RUBY HUNT, M.B.E. COUNCILLOR AND SCHOOL GOVERNOR 8TH FEB. 1919 - 9TH MARCH 2006

"MENS SIBI CONSCIA RECTI.""

DB 10 August 2024

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Hunt
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Memorial & Benefaction
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Memorial & Benefaction
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Memorial & Benefaction

South wall towards the west end of the south aisle. 

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ELIZABETH SHEPHERD, SPINSTER, WHO DIED THE 14TH OF NOVEMBER 1817 AGED 90 YEARS.

THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY HER NIECE MRS ELIZABETH WHITWORTH TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF A REVERED RELATIVE WHO BEING ENDOWED BY DIVINE GRACE WITH GOOD ABILITIES EXERCISED THE TALENTS COMMITTED TO HER CHARGE WITH EXEMPLARY PIETY AND DEVOTION IN THE SERVICE OF GOD, AND IN WORKS OF CHARITY AND CHRISTIAN LOVE.

THE ABOVE NAMED ELIZABETH WHITWORTH. WIDOW OF WILLIAM WHIITWORTH ESQUIRE OF EARLS BARTON IN THE COUNTY OF NORTHAMPTON, GAVE BY WILL THE SUM OF THIRTEEN HUNDRED POUNDSTO TRUSTEES, THE INTEREST OF WHICH TO BE PAID TO THE OFFICIATING MINISTER OF DONINGTON, FOR EVER. UPON CONDITION THAT HE PREACHES TWO SERMONS EVERY SUNDAY.

SIE ALSO GAVE THE SUM OF FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS TO THE SAME TRUSTEES. THE INTEREST OF WHICH TO BE LAID OUT IN CLOTHING AND DISTRIBUTED ON SAINT THOMAS'S DAY TO THE POOR PEOPLE OF THE THREE PARISHES OF DONINGTON, QUADRING AND PINCHBECK, AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES."

DB 10 August 2024 

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Memorial (Dods)
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Memorial (Dods)
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, South Aisle, Memorial (Dods)

"In Memory of JOSEPH DODS. (SON OF JOSEPH & SARAH DODS) DIED 2ND JANUARY, 1822, AGED 49 YEARS.

ALSO OF AMY DODS, WIFE OF THE ABOVE; DIED 18TH JUNE, 1859, AGED 83 YEARS."

DB 10 August 2024 

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Dods
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, War Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, War Memorial
Donington, St Mary & the Holy Rood, War Memorial

Church Guide notes state :-

"The War Memorial is in two parts. A Stained Glass window on the North Aisle was installed to commemorate the losses of World War 1, while a tablet naming the 25 inhabitants of Donington who gave their lives in that conflict is on the wall adjacent to the Pulpit. A further plaque was added for the 11 who were lost in World War 2 and added later was a plaque to record the general losses of the 1st Parachute Squadron R E."

DB 10 August 2024

Donington, Church, St Mary & the Holy Rood, war memorial
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Memorial
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Memorial
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Memorial

Brass wall plaque to Walter & William West killed in the  Matabele Rebellion of 1896.

"In March 1896, the Matabele revolted against the authority of the British South Africa Company.

The Mlimo (or M'limo, or Umlimo) the Matabele spiritual leader, is credited with fomenting much of the anger that led to this confrontation.

He convinced the Matabele and the Shona that the settlers (almost 4,000 strong by then) were responsible for the drought, locust plagues and the cattle disease rinderpest ravaging the country at the time"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Matabele_War 

DB 23 March 2020

Dunholme, Saint Chad, church, Matabeleland Rebellion
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Memorial
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Memorial
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Memorial

Memorial to Mary Carr (d. 1830) and her infant son.

North side of sanctuary. 

DB 23 March 2020

Dunholme, Saint Chad, church
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Monument
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Monument
Dunholme, St Chad, Chancel, Monument

"In the chancel south wall is a monument to Robert Grantham d.1541, restored 1857.

The figure of the deceased is kneeling before a book, flanked by Doric columns supporting an entablature, above which is an inscription surmounted by oval armorial panels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064139 

DB 23 March 2020

Dunholme, Saint Chad, church, Robert Grantham, monument
Dunston, St Peter, Nixon Memorial Tablet
Dunston, St Peter, Nixon Memorial Tablet
Dunston, St Peter, Nixon Memorial Tablet

C18 memorial to the Nixon family.

West tower, where it is located, survived a fire in 1873 which destroyed most of the original church.

DB 25 June 2018

Dunston, Saint Peter, Church, Nixon
Eagle, All Saints, Chancel Screen, Memorial
Eagle, All Saints, Chancel Screen, Memorial
Eagle, All Saints, Chancel Screen, Memorial

"To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Walter Baldock who died 7th April 1935"

Kelly's Directory 1919 has "Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1878, for 100 children; Walter Baldock master" 

DB 9 April 2024

Eagle, All Saints Church, Walter Baldock
Eagle, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial
Eagle, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial
Eagle, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial

"IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF PRIVATE MAJOR HERBERT  BEAN WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY, IN FRANCE. AUG 15TH 1917. AGED 24 YEARS.

FOR MANY YEARS THE TRUSTED FRIEND AND SERVANT OF THE REV G.W. SMITH AND FAMILY, BY WHOM THIS TABLET IS ERECTED

"HE DID HIS DUTY SIMPLY, NOBLY, AND DOING IT HE DIED"."

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/92269 

DB 9 April 2024

Eagle, All Saints Church, PRIVATE MAJOR HERBERT BEAN
Eagle, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial
Eagle, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial
Eagle, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORIES OF SAMUEL RUSSELL COLLET, ESQRE OF SWINETHORPE, SON OF SAMUEL COLLET, ESQRE OF WORCESTER, AND ARMELAH RUSSELL, OF DUNSWATER, HEREFORDSHIRE, HIS WIFE. BORN AT WORCESTER IN 1770, AND DIED ON THE 26TH APRIL 1850, AGED 79.

ALSO OF ANNE, HIS WIFE, DAUGHTER OF JEREMIAH CURTEIS, ESQRE OF RYE, SUSSEX. BORN NOVEMBER 14TH 1771 AND DIED 16TH SEPTEMBER 1854, AGED 82.

ALSO OF ANNA RUSSELL, THEIR ONLY CHILD, WHO DIED MAY 7TH 1811, AGED 11

ALSO OF THEIR TWO OLD AND FAITHFUL SERVANTS WHO DIED IN THEIR FAMILY. EDWARD PITT, APRIL, 1843, AGED 90; AND ANN PEARKES, JULY, 1852, AGED 89.

THEIR NAMES ARE PLACED ON THIS TABLET AND THEY WERE ALSO BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE IN THIS CHURCHYARD, BY THE EXPRESS DESIRE OF THEIR MASTER AND MISTRESS.

"BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD""

DB 9 April 2024

Eagle, All Saints Church
Eagle, All Saints, Nave, Memorial
Eagle, All Saints, Nave, Memorial
Eagle, All Saints, Nave, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF ELIZABETH BROWN WHO DIED APRIL 26TH 1881, AGED 52.

ALSO OF WILLIAM BROWN, HUSBAND OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED JUNE 4TH 1906, AGED 84.

"PEACE, PERFECT PEACE.""

DB 9 April 2024

Eagle, All Saints Church
Eagle, All Saints, Nave, Memorial
Eagle, All Saints, Nave, Memorial
Eagle, All Saints, Nave, Memorial

"To the dear memory of my beloved husband THOMAS COLTON of Brighton. Lord of the Manor, of Eagle and only Son of the late Thomas Boot Colton of Eagle Hall and Brighton. Died July 1st 1899, aged 32 years"

DB 9 April 2024

Eagle, All Saints Church, THOMAS COLTON
Eagle, All Saints, North Aisle, Norman Masonry
Eagle, All Saints, North Aisle, Norman Masonry
Eagle, All Saints, North Aisle, Norman Masonry

A fragment of a late tenth century or eleventh century cross shaft with cable-moulded borders and interlaced patterning.

October 2016

Eagle, All Saints, norman masonry
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

Monument to Richard Bertie (c.1635-86). 3rd son of the 2nd Earl of Lindsey. MP for Woodstock.

Mark Acton, 2018

Edenham, Bertie, Lindsey
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

Monument to Robert Bertie (1582-1642), 1st Earl of Lindsey, killed at the Battle of Edgehill and his son Montague Bertie (1608-1666), 2nd Earl of Lindsey.

Mark Acton, 2018

Edenham, Bertie
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

Monument to the Hon. Frederick Burrell (1818-19), son of the 2nd Baron Gwydyr.

Mark Acton, 2018

Edenham, Burrell
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

Monument by Joseph Nollekens to Peter Burrell (1754-1820), 1st Baron Gwydyr. MP for Haslemere & Boston. Married Lady Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.

Mark Acton, 2018

Edenham, Burrell, Bertie
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

Monument to Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (1867-1951), 2nd Earl of Ancaster. MP for Horncastle. Lord Lieutenant of Rutland.

Mark Acton, 2018

Edenham, Ancaster
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

Monument to Gilbert James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (1907-83), 3rd Earl of Ancaster. MP for Rutland & Stamford. Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.

Mark Acton, 2018

Edenham, Ancaster
Edenham, St Michael, Monument
Edenham, St Michael, Monument
Edenham, St Michael, Monument

Monument by Henry Scheemakers & Henry Cheere to Robert Bertie (1660-1723), 1st Duke of Ancaster & Kesteven.

May 2018

Edenham, Bertie, Ancaster
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

Monument by Charles Harris to Peregrine Bertie (1714-78), 3rd Duke of Ancaster & Robert Bertie (1756-79), 4th Duke of Ancaster.

May 2018

Edenham, Bertie, Ancaster
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

Monument of 1738 to seven members of the Bertie family.

May 2018

Edenham, Bertie
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

Monument by Louis-Francois Roubiliac to Peregrine Bertie (1686-1742), 2nd Duke of Ancaster.

May 2018 

Edenham, Bertie
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

Monument to Gilbert Henry Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (1830-1910), 1st Earl of Ancaster. MP for Boston and Rutland.

Mark Acton, 2018

Edenham, Ancaster
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument
Edenham, St Michael, monument

Memorial to: Clementina Elizabeth, wife of the First Baron Aveland.  Baroness Willoughby de Eresby in her own right and Joint Hereditary Great Chamberlain of England, born September 2 1809, died 13 November 1888. After 40 years of married life she succeeded to the Willoughby and Drummond estates on the death of her brother in 1870.

May 2018

Edenham, St Michael, monument, Elizabeth Aveland, Willoughby de Eresby, Great Chamberlain, Drummond
Edlington, St Helen, Chancel, Memorial
Edlington, St Helen, Chancel, Memorial
Edlington, St Helen, Chancel, Memorial

Memorial to Ann Hassard and other family members.

DB 6 February 2020

Edlington, Saint Helen, Church, Ann Hassard
Edlington, St Helen, South Aisle, Memorial
Edlington, St Helen, South Aisle, Memorial
Edlington, St Helen, South Aisle, Memorial

Memorial to Fitzhugh Hassard Short and John Hassard Short.

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 reports that "John Hassard Short, Esq., is lord of the manor; but Poolam Hall, and many other farms, belong to various proprietors; and the governors of Oakham School are impropriators of the great tithes"

DB 6 February 2020

Edlington, Saint Helen, Church, Memorial, John Hassard Short
Ewerby, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument
Ewerby, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument
Ewerby, St Andrew, Chancel, Monument

"In the chancel the early C14 founder's tomb recess has a continuously moulded arched head, pinnacles and gablet.

It now contains an effigy to the 12th Earl of Winchelsea, d.1898, clad in state robes"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360562 

DB 25 April 2021

Ewerby, Saint Andrew Church Image, Monument 12th Earl of Winchelsea
Ewerby, St Andrew, Chancel, Monuments
Ewerby, St Andrew, Chancel, Monuments
Ewerby, St Andrew, Chancel, Monuments

"In the chancel are various rectangular brass panels with raised letter inscriptions to members of the Finch Hatton family, Earls of Winchelsea and Nottingham"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360562 

DB 25 April 2021

Ewerby, Saint Andrew Church Image, Finch Hatton, Earls of Winchelsea and Nottingham
Ewerby, St Andrew, North Chapel, Monument
Ewerby, St Andrew, North Chapel, Monument
Ewerby, St Andrew, North Chapel, Monument

"In the recess an elevated carving of a recumbent knight in plate armour with surcoat, feet resting on a lion, pot helmet, hands and sword missing, though the sword belt bears a lion buckle"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360562 

Kelly's Directory 1919 has "fine arched tomb, with the recumbent effigy of a knight in chain mail, said to represent Sir Alexander Aunsell"

Pevsner comments "monument to Sir Alexander Aunsell who died in 1360. Effigy under a low, finely moulded arch. The date may refer to the church as a whole".

DB 25 April 2021

Ewerby, Saint Andrew Church Image, Monument Sir Alexander Aunsell
Farforth, St Peter, Ledger
Farforth, St Peter, Ledger
Farforth, St Peter, Ledger

Also saved from the earlier church is this ledger for Ann Mosley "who departed this life Feb ye 17th 1742 Aged 17". 

In an engraved circle are the cross and three nails of Christ's crucifixion and the letters "IHS", the first three letters of Jesus in Greek.

Jean Howard, April 2018

Farforth, Saint Peter Church, image, Mosley
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet

G H Browne was the tenant of Maidenwell farm from c 1860, when the Allenby family moved from Maidenwell to Cadwell Hall. 

The Brownes remained at Maidenwell into the 20th century when the Clarke family began their tenancy.

Jean Howard, April 2018

Farforth, Saint Peter Church, image, G H Browne
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet

This small tablet is in memory of a baby.  It reads;

Here/ lyeth the/ Body of Jho/ Son of Geo:/ Dunham &/ Mary his W/ife Enterd/ Feb ye 29 1725/ Aged 6/ Months/ Momento Mori.

It has an attractive border of tulips, daisies and thistles.

Jean Howard, April 2018

Farforth, Saint Peter Church, image, Dunham
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet
Farforth, St Peter, Memorial Tablet

William John Oslear and his wife Frances lived at Farforth House, just below the church, and the rebuilding of St Peter's in 1861 was partly funded by their executors.  The text is becoming difficult to read, but it says:

To/ the glory of/ GOD/ and in memory of/ William Oslear/ who died April XXIXth MDCCCLVIII/ and/ Frances Oslear/ his wife/ who died May XIXth MDCCCLVIII/ each aged/ LXX years

It is said that the family name had been Osley and that the family had been associated with Farforth for over 150 years.

Jean Howard, April 2018

Farforth, Saint Peter Church, image, Oslear
Fillingham, St Andrew, memorial
Fillingham, St Andrew, memorial
Fillingham, St Andrew, memorial

On the wall of the chancel of St Andrew's Fillingham is this marble tablet inscribed as follows:

In the center of this chancel/ are deposited the remains of/ DAME ESTHER WRAY/ and in the same vault with those/ of her consort/ Sir CECIL WRAY Bart./ She died at Summer Castle/ on the 1st day of Feby 1825 in the/ eighty ninth year of her age.

Sir Cecil Wray, 13th baronet and politician, built Fillingham (or Summer) Castle in 1760.  Dame Esther's maiden name was Summers.

May 2011

Fillingham, St Andrew church
Firsby, St Andrew, Gothic Ledger Stone (de Firsby)
Firsby, St Andrew, Gothic Ledger Stone (de Firsby)
Firsby, St Andrew, Gothic Ledger Stone (de Firsby)

Although half-covered by carpet this would seem to be the ledger of ‘? de Firsby ... 1470’ noted by H A Beetlestone in1935.

Jean Howard 7 September 2024

Firsby, Saint Andrew Church
Firsby, St Andrew, Ledger Stone (Hetherington)
Firsby, St Andrew, Ledger Stone (Hetherington)
Firsby, St Andrew, Ledger Stone (Hetherington)

It would appear that this ledger is for the person who is named as churchwarden on the royal arms. This reads: In Memory of/ Willm Hetherington Gent/ who died the 19th day of June 1757/ AGED 59 YEARS/ He was a tender and indulgent Husband,/ A kind Master, and a sincere Friend./ Blessed are the Dead, which die in the Lord,/ For they rest from their Labours/ And their Works do follow them./ Also Lydia his Wife/ who died Jan the 26th 1763/ AGED 62 YEARS./ All Earthly Bodies yeald to Deaths Decree/ The Soul survives for all Eternity/ And such trust have we through Christ to/ ??

Jean Howard 7 September 2024

Firsby, Saint Andrew Church, Hetherington
Firsby, St Andrew, Memorial (Walls)
Firsby, St Andrew, Memorial (Walls)
Firsby, St Andrew, Memorial (Walls)

A very handsome memorial to Mary Alice Walls who died in 1877 aged 19. It depicts a young red-haired woman in white robes against a squared gilded background within vertical borders of passion flowers. Above it reads:

LET THE WORD OF GOD DWELL/ IN YOU RICHLY IN ALL WISDOM; and below: IN MEMORY OF MARY ANN WALLS/ MUCH LOVED DAUGHTER OF R.G.WALLS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH AND/ ANNIE HIS WIFE. SHE DIED JULY 25TH 1877 AGED 19.

Jean Howard 7 September 2024

Firsby, Saint Andrew Church, Mary Alice Walls
Firsby, St Andrew, Nave, War Memorial
Firsby, St Andrew, Nave, War Memorial
Firsby, St Andrew, Nave, War Memorial

Though called a roll of honour this commemorates the dead in both world wars.

Jean Howard 7 September 2024

Firsby, Saint Andrew Church, war memorial
Folkingham, St Andrew, Nave, Monument
Folkingham, St Andrew, Nave, Monument
Folkingham, St Andrew, Nave, Monument

"A large slate monument with cherubs to George Sutton, died 1715, and family"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062733 

DB 5 May 2018

Folkingham, Saint Andrew, Church, Sutton
Folkingham, St Andrew, South Aisle, John Rogeley
Folkingham, St Andrew, South Aisle, John Rogeley
Folkingham, St Andrew, South Aisle, John Rogeley

"Monuments in nave include one in inlaid marble and ashlar to John Rogeley, died 1780"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062733 

DB 5 May 2018

Folkingham, Saint Andrew, Church, John Rogeley
Fosdyke, All Saints, South Aisle, Memorial
Fosdyke, All Saints, South Aisle, Memorial
Fosdyke, All Saints, South Aisle, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF ROBERT LONGSTAFF BETT, FLEET SURGEON ROYAL NAVY, WHO DIED ON THE IOTH OF DECEMBER 1880,AGED 43 YEARS, ON BOARD HER MAJESTY'S SHIP DRUID, DURING HER PASSAGE FROM BERMUDA TO JAMAICA, HAVING SERVED 21 YEARS IN HER MAJESTY'S FLEET, IN CHINA, INDIA, PACIFIC AND NORTH AMERICAN STATIONS, ALSO AT HASLAR, HAULBOWLINE AND PLYMOUTH HOSPITALS."

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/62056 

A non-combat death. 

DB 12 October 2024

Fosdyke, All Saints Church, ROBERT LONGSTAFF BETT, FLEET SURGEON
Fosdyke, All Saints, WW1 & WW2 Memorials
Fosdyke, All Saints, WW1 & WW2 Memorials
Fosdyke, All Saints, WW1 & WW2 Memorials

First & Second World War Memorials at the east end of the south aisle.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/62054 

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/62055 

DB 12 October 2024

Fosdyke, All Saints Church, war memorial
Fosdyke, All Saints, WW2 Memorial
Fosdyke, All Saints, WW2 Memorial
Fosdyke, All Saints, WW2 Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED 1939-1945"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/62055 

DB 12 October 2024

Fosdyke, All Saints Church, war memorial
Fotherby, St Mary, Chancel, Monument (Allenby)
Fotherby, St Mary, Chancel, Monument (Allenby)
Fotherby, St Mary, Chancel, Monument (Allenby)

In memory of Thomas Allenby d.1832 and family.

DB 7 August 2022

Fotherby, St Mary church, image, Thomas Allenby
Fotherby, St Mary, Chancel, Monument (Allenby)
Fotherby, St Mary, Chancel, Monument (Allenby)
Fotherby, St Mary, Chancel, Monument (Allenby)

In memory of William Everitt Allenby d.1824 and family. 

DB 7 August 2022

Fotherby, St Mary church, image, William Everitt Allenby
Fotherby, St Mary, Chancel, Reredos
Fotherby, St Mary, Chancel, Reredos
Fotherby, St Mary, Chancel, Reredos

The wooden reredos can be seen in the photo of the sanctuary.

Three plaques read: THIS REREDOS IS ERECTED BY/ THE PARISHIONERS IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE/ OF REV. WALTER FARNSWORTH, MA. BNC./ OXFORD;

then: VICAR OF/ FOTHERBY WITH LITTLE GRIMSBY,/ 1905-34 AND RECTOR OF UTTERBY 1921-34;

then: ALSO/ EDITH/ BRADBURY/ BELOVED WIFE/ OF ABOVE/ A PERFECT/ HELPMATE/ DIED 1952

Jean Howard, March 2024

Fotherby, St Mary church, Reredos, Walter Farnsworth
Fotherby, St Mary, Memorial (Robert Uvedale)
Fotherby, St Mary, Memorial (Robert Uvedale)
Fotherby, St Mary, Memorial (Robert Uvedale)

Beneath the Uvedale cross the Latin inscription records ‘Here lies the body of Robert Uvedale A.M. for 38 years vicar of this parish. He died on the 28th day in the month of July in the year of our Lord 1856 aged 75. May his soul be with God. Also Agnes Diana Ashton great niece of the above aged 5 months. This tablet is erected by his affectionate sister Diana West

Jean Howard 9 March 2024

Fotherby, St Mary church, Robert Uvedale
Fotherby, St Mary, Memorial Ernest Haddon Owen)
Fotherby, St Mary, Memorial Ernest Haddon Owen)
Fotherby, St Mary, Memorial Ernest Haddon Owen)

In dear memory of/ Ernest Haddon Owen, Lieut./ 3rd Lincolns, attd 1st South Wales Borderers./ Born Feb. 4. 1886. Fell in action at Festubert/ Dec 21st 1914./ Sursum Corda. 

Sursum corda, literally ‘Up hearts’ is the opening of the eucharistic prayer and is translated into English as ‘Lift up your hearts’.

Ernest is recorded on a CWG in the Louth town cemetery and an image of the stone can be seen at: 

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/96228

His photograph can be found at:

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/3351589

He was a solicitor and partner in the Louth practice of Haddon Owen.

Jean Howard 9 March 2024

Fotherby, St Mary church, Ernest Haddon Owen, war memorial
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Memorial (Charlotte Mitchell)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Memorial (Charlotte Mitchell)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Memorial (Charlotte Mitchell)

The arms at the top are divided to show the Mitchell arms to the left and the Uvedale arms to the right.

The text reads: Sacred/ to the Memory of/ Mrs Charlotte Mitchell/ relict of Mr John Mitchell/ of Boston, Merchant,/ and daughter of the/ Rev. Robert Uvedale DD/ Rector of Langton near Spilsby/ and Vicar of Swineshead,/ by Diana his wife, Daughter of/ Bennet Langton, of Langton,/ Esquire./ She died at Louth,/ August 29, 1826, aged 55,/ and is buried here./ This Tablet was erected/ by her Affectionate Brothers,/ the Rev. Robert Uvedale M.A./ Vicar of this Parish & of Hogsthorpe,/ and the Rev. Washbourne Uvedale B.A./ Vicar of Kirmond and of Markby/ in this County.

Jean Howard 9 March 2024

Fotherby, St Mary church, Charlotte Mitchell
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Memorial (Thomas Jacob Freeth)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Memorial (Thomas Jacob Freeth)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Memorial (Thomas Jacob Freeth)

This memorial documents the career of Revd Thomas Jacob Freeth who was vicar of the parish for 47 years. It records that: "This church was rebuilt and the vicarage house erected through his exertions. He also greatly improved and extended the churchyard where his remains are interred.”

Jean Howard 9 March 2024

Fotherby, St Mary church, Thomas Jacob Freeth
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Monument (Edward Cordeaux)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Monument (Edward Cordeaux)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Monument (Edward Cordeaux)

"IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF EDWARD KYME CORDEAUX, C.B.E., D.L. OF BRACKENBOROUGH LAWN, COLONEL, THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT, HIGH SHERIFF OF LINCOLNSHIRE 1925, BORN 7TH DECEMBER 1866, DIED 16TH JULY1946, AND OF HIS WIFE HILDA ELIZA AGAR CORDEAUX, M.B.E. BORN 27TH OCTOBER 1870, DIED 3RD APRIL 1946. 

DB 7 August 2022

Fotherby, St Mary church, image, EDWARD KYME CORDEAUX
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Monument (Sophia Uvedale)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Monument (Sophia Uvedale)
Fotherby, St Mary, Nave, Monument (Sophia Uvedale)

Miss SOPHIA UVEDALE Died at Fotherby Feby, 18th, 1813 AGED 63.

DB 7 August 2022

Fotherby, St Mary church, image, Sophia Uvedale
Friesthorpe, St Peter, Beechey Memorial
Friesthorpe, St Peter, Beechey Memorial
Friesthorpe, St Peter, Beechey Memorial

All eight sons of Revd P W T Beechey and his wife Amy served in World War I.

The five who died in service - ranging in age from 26 to 39 - are commemorated in this plaque on the south wall of the chancel.

August 2020
Friesthorpe, Beechey boys brothers
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Charles Fane
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Charles Fane
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Charles Fane

Colonel Charles Fane, son of Henry and Anne Fane of Fulbeck Hall, died of wounds received at the battle of Vittoria on 21 June 1813.

He served in the 2/59th Foot.

Mark Acton, 2008

Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial, Colonel Charles Fane
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Fane Family
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Fane Family
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Fane Family

One of many memorials to the Fane family this one commemorating seventeen members of the family starting with Nevil Fane d. 1807 through to modern times.

DB 3 April 2018

Fulbeck, Saint Nicholas, Church, Fane
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Neville Fane
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Neville Fane
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Neville Fane

"Of the Fane memorials in the north aisle, the earliest is to Neville Fane (died 1680), being a curved-top slab with an urn on a plinth with painted heraldic shields"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nicholas%27_Church,_Fulbeck 

DB 26 March 2018

Fulbeck, Saint Nicholas, Church, Neville Fane
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Thomas Ball
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Thomas Ball
Fulbeck, St Nicholas, Memorial Thomas Ball

"A slab memorial is dedicated to Thomas Ball, servant of Sir Francis Fane, inscribed:

In Memory of Thomas Ball Who dyed the 10th day of February, 1673 in the 74th year Of his Age.

His Wife Was Elizabeth daughter of M. Thomas West of Doncaster by Whom hee had six Sons, & left onely one daughter Elizabeth Survivinge

Hee was 50 years a faithfull servant to Sr Francis Fane Kt of the Bath Second Son of Francis Earle of Westmorland, & travelled with him into Holland, Denmark, Germany, Loraine, Switzerland, Naples, France & Flanders, where hee considered the Courts and Camps of most of the European Princes their splendor & mutabilitie, concluding with the Preacher, there was nothing new under the Sun, & that all was Vanity, and onely one thing neccisary to fear God & to keep his Commandments:

Soe doth;: F. F. who fixed this stone: 1674"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nicholas%27_Church,_Fulbeck 

DB 3 April 2018

Fulbeck, Saint Nicholas, Church, Sir Francis Fane, Thomas Ball
Fulletby, St Andrew, Floor Slab
Fulletby, St Andrew, Floor Slab
Fulletby, St Andrew, Floor Slab

"Remains of seventeenth-century floor slab in the chancel"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063663

"DEPOSITUM RICHARDI DU-GARD"

DB 18 February 2020

Fulletby, Saint Andrew, Church, Floor Slab, RICHARDI DU-GARD
Fulletby, St Andrew, Memorial (Frewer)
Fulletby, St Andrew, Memorial (Frewer)
Fulletby, St Andrew, Memorial (Frewer)

John Frewer was born and baptised in Fulletby in 1883. He was the son of Canon G. E. Frewer who was then Rector of Fulletby.

"He was ordained in 1909 and, after being a curate in Boston, he emigrated to Australia where he became domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Bunbury-eventually becoming a canon of the diocese.

A member of the Brotherhood of St Boniface, he was their warden from 1919 until his ordination to the episcopate.

He served as second bishop of North West Australia from 1929 to 1965"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frewer 

DB 18 February 2020

Fulletby, Saint Andrew, Church, John Frewer, Bishop North West Australia
Fulletby, St Andrew, Memorial Plaque (Winn)
Fulletby, St Andrew, Memorial Plaque (Winn)
Fulletby, St Andrew, Memorial Plaque (Winn)

Henry Winn (1816-1914) lived his whole life in Fulletby where he worked as Sunday School teacher, churchwarden, parish constable and Overseer of the Poor. 

Most notably he served as Parish Clerk from the age of 14 until he was 94.

He wrote prose and poetry about the Lincolnshire countryside, some of which was published in local newspapers.

August 2019

Fulletby, Henry Winn
Fulstow, St Lawrence, Porch, effigy
Fulstow, St Lawrence, Porch, effigy
Fulstow, St Lawrence, Porch, effigy

In the porch is this figure of a lady circa 1300 wearing a head-dress and a flowing gown.

Her head rests on a pillow, her feet on a lion.

A masonry paint has been applied in recent times.

June 2015

Fulstow, St Lawrence church, effigy
Fulstow, St Lawrence, Porch, effigy
Fulstow, St Lawrence, Porch, effigy
Fulstow, St Lawrence, Porch, effigy

In the porch is this effigy circa 1300 of a cross-legged knight.

He wears mail and a surcoat and carries sword and shield.

His head rests on a pillow, his feet are on a lion.

June 2015

Fulstow, St Lawrence church, effigy
Gainsborough, All Saints, Headstone
Gainsborough, All Saints, Headstone
Gainsborough, All Saints, Headstone

Tombstone re-positioned inside the entrance.

"Sacred

to the Memory of

RICHARD ROLLETT

formerly Master Sail Maker of

H.M.S. the Resolution

Capn James Cook in her 2nd Voyage

round the World

Died the 20th January 1824" 

DB 19 June 2018

Gainsborough, All Saints, church, Richard Rollett, Sail Maker, HMS Resolution, Captain James Cook
Gainsborough, All Saints, Memorial Tablet
Gainsborough, All Saints, Memorial Tablet
Gainsborough, All Saints, Memorial Tablet

Wall plaque north aisle. 

"A British officer, Lieutenant [Francis] Elliott commanding the local Constabulary at Serenli was brutally attacked and killed along with 35 African police, 7 others were wounded, 3 deserted and some 50 villagers were also murdered.

The local warlord Abdurraham Mursaal had tricked Lieutenant Elliott into disarming his constables when they were "off duty""

See also

http://museums.bristol.gov.uk/details.php?irn=239033  

DB 19 June 2018

Gainsborough, All Saints, church, Francis Elliott, DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, JUBALAND, SERENLI, BARDERA
Gautby, All Saints, memorial
Gautby, All Saints, memorial
Gautby, All Saints, memorial

Memorials in Gautby church include two stone figures, originally erected in 1673 in St Mary Woolnoth Church, London.  Seen here is Sir Thomas Vyner, displaying his chain of office as Lord Mayor of London.

Frank Robinson, May 2013

Gautby, All Saints church, memorial, Thomas Vyner, Lord Mayor of London, St Mary Woolnoth church
Gautby, All Saints, monument
Gautby, All Saints, monument
Gautby, All Saints, monument

This reclining figure is the memorial to Thomas Viner, son of Sir Thomas.

Both monuments are attributed to Jasper Latham.

July 2017

 

Gautby, All Saints, monument, Jasper Latham
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF RICHARD LAWSON GALES, VICAR OF THIS PARISH 1909 -1927. PRIEST, POET AND ESSAYIST. WHO ENTERED INTO REST 26TH DECEMBER 1927, IN HIS 65TH YEAR. THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY HIS PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS."

Lincoln College, Oxford holds his literary archive :-

https://archives.lincoln.ox.ac.uk/records/LC/MS/GAL 

DB 27 July 2024

Gedney, Saint Mary Magdalene Church, RICHARD LAWSON GALES
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial

"ROBERT MILLINGTON GENT DIED MARCH 18. 1840 AGED 80 YEARS

IN MEMORY OF MARY THE WIFE OF ROBERT MILLINGTON (OF THIS PARiSH) GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF ST. JOHN WELLS ESQR. (OF ALFORD IN THIS COUNTY) WHO DIED I7TH. AUGUST 1831. AGED LVI YEARS."

DB 27 July 2024

Gedney, Saint Mary Magdalene Church, ROBERT MILLINGTON
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial

"CHARLES HENRY ROGERS C.E. OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPT. TRINIDAD. SON OF REV. GEORGE ROGERS M.A. VICAR OF THIS PARISH. BORN 12TH NOV. 1854, DIED IN TRINIDAD 8TH NOV 1894. WITH FEELINGS OF TENDER AFFECTION & REGRET HIS SORROWING PARENTS, BROTHERS & SISTERS DEDICATE THIS TABLET TO HIS MEMORY"

DB 27 July 2024

Gedney, Saint Mary Magdalene Church, CHARLES HENRY ROGERS
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF MARY ANNE THE WIFE OF JOHN BOYFIELD MILLINGTON OF BOSTON GENTLEMAN WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 4TH DAY OF MAY 1829 IN THE 36 YEAR OF HER AGE

ALSO OF SARAH THEIR DAUGHTER WO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT SCHOOL N THE PARISH OF ST GILES IN THE CITY OF NORWICH ON THE 17 DAY OF APRIL 1838 IN THE 15 YEAR OF HER AGE."

DB 27 July 2024

Gedney, Saint Mary Magdalene Church, MILLINGTON
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF WILBY THE WIFE OF JOHN BOYFIELD MILLINGTON OF BOSTON GENTLEMAN (THE LAY IMPROPRIATOR OF THIS PARISH) & DAUGHTER OF THE REV. RICHARD WRIGHT, RECTOR OF MARSH CHAPEL & VICAR OF WRANGLE IN THIS COUNTY, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 23RD DAY OF APRIL 1844 IN THE 40TH YEAR OF HER AGE. DEEPLY REGRETTED BY HER SURVIVING HUSBAND WHO CAUSED THIS MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED IN HER MEMORY & IN MOURNFUL RECOLLECTION OF HER MANY VIRTUES & IN THE HUMBLE HOPE OF A HAPPY REUNION WITH HER AT THE RESURRECTION OF THE JUST."

DB 27 July 2024

Gedney, Saint Mary Magdalene Church
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial

"REMEMBER IN THE LORD JOHN W. DAVIS VICAR OF THIS PARISH 1938~1944

Jesus saith unto him Feed my sheep"

DB 27 July 2024

Gedney, Saint Mary Magdalene Church, JOHN W. DAVIS
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, Chancel, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF CHARLES BAINBRIDGE 1909 - 2002 CHORISTER FOR 87 YEARS AND ALSO HIS WIFE CONSTANCE 1922 - 2002"

DB 27 July 2024

Gedney, Saint Mary Magdalene Church, CHARLES BAINBRIDGE
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial

"In Memory of Thomas Sweet Escott, Clerk M.A. formally of Hartrow Court Somerset late fellow of Lincoln College Oxford & for XXI years Vicar of this Parish, He died Aug VI A.D. MDCCCLVI Aged LV.

This tablet is raised in token of the Respect & Affection of his Parishioners."

DB 27 July 2024

Gedney, Saint Mary Magdalene Church
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial

"TO THE MEMORY OF WORRALL PALMER GENT. OF THIS PARISH WHO DIED OCTR THE XXIV.TH MDCCCXXV AGED LVIII YEARS.

ALSO OF MARGARET PALMER RELICT OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED AUG. THE XXX.TH MDCCCXXVI AGED LIII YEARS.

THEM ALSO WHLICH SLEEP IN JESUS WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM.

I.THES. IV. 14."

DB 27 July 2024

Gedney, Saint Mary Magdalene Church, WORRALL PALMER
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial

"TO GOD'S GREATER GLORY THE CHAIRS IN THE NAVE OF THIS CHURCH WERE BEQUEATHED BY THE LATE ROBERT SPEED OF ROTHERHAM, YORKSHIRE AND LATELY OF GEDNEY AND SUTTON-ST-JAMES WHO DIED ON 5MARCH 1963 AGED 81 MAY HE REST IN PEACE."

DB 27 July 2024

Gedney, Saint Mary Magdalene Church
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, North Aisle, Memorial

Memorial on the north wall of the Lady Chapel. 

"IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY THE WIDOW AND FAMILY OF THE LATE JAMES WALSHAM OF THIS PARISH. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 1 APRIL 1915. AGED 72YEARS. HE WAS CHURCHWARDEN 1886-1897 AND 1899-1904.

PEACE PERFECT PEACE"

DB 27 July 2024

Gedney, Saint Mary Magdalene Church, memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, South Aisle, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, South Aisle, Memorial
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, South Aisle, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF MAJOR A.B. ENTWISTLE OBE MC. 1890 - 1968 HEAD MASTER OF GEDNEY SCHOOL FOUNDER OF GEDNEY BRANCH BRITISH LEGION "SERVICE NOT SELF""

DB 27 July 2024

Gedney, Saint Mary Magdalene Church
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, South Aisle, Monument
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, South Aisle, Monument
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, South Aisle, Monument

Near this place lieth Interned Body of Adlard Welbye Esq. The Youngest of the four Sons of Adlard Welbye Esq. Executor to His eldest Brother Wm. Welbye to whose memory he erected the monument adjoining & in ye same grave with him are deposited the Bodies of his said Brothers William & John Welbye ye 4th Brother having perished at Sea, none of them having left issue that ancient & worthy Family is hereby become extinct. He died ye 15th June 1728 in ye 58th Year of His Age & as he lived in the Exercise of all Christian & Moral Virtues so he left a Memorial of his Charity by a perpetual Donation of Five Pounds a year for the relief of such Industrious poor of the Parish as do not receive Collection. His Father Adlard Welbye left Fifty Shillings per ann. to ye poor; many of his ancestors having been Benefactors to this Parish before him"

DB 27 July 2024

Gedney, Saint Mary Magdalene Church
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, South Aisle, Monument (Welby)
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, South Aisle, Monument (Welby)
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, South Aisle, Monument (Welby)

"Fine coloured gilt and alabaster memorial to Adlard Welby and his wife Cassandra, erected 1605. Comprising 2 kneeling figures in contemporary dress set into arches with keystones supported on panelled reveal and pilasters. Arches flanked by single Corinthian columns which support a cornice with decorated soffit. Decorative cartouche and 2 shields over flanked by single outer obelisks. The columns are supported on decorative brackets with instription running between. Decorated apron"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359231?section=official-list-entry 

DB 27 July 2024

Gedney, Saint Mary Magdalene Church
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, South Aisle, Tomb Chest
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, South Aisle, Tomb Chest
Gedney, St Mary Magdalen, South Aisle, Tomb Chest

"C15 ashlar tomb chest the sides decorated with quatrefoil panels and shields, over is a truncated C13 torso lying on chamfered slab, the surround decorated with wispy stiff leaf"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359231?section=official-list-entry 

DB 27 July 2024

Gedney, Saint Mary Magdalene Church, tomb chest
Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monument
Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monument
Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monument

"In the north aisle is a small inscribed brass plate to Ann Tourney, d.1641"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165045 

DB 12 May 2019

Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, Church, Ann Tourney
Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, Vestry, Monument
Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, Vestry, Monument
Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, Vestry, Monument

"In the floor of the vestry is a C16 brass to a lady, defaced"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165045 

DB 12 May 2019

Glentham, St Peter & St Paul, Church, brass
Glentworth, St Michael, Saunderson Memorial
Glentworth, St Michael, Saunderson Memorial
Glentworth, St Michael, Saunderson Memorial

The white marble monument to Elizabeth Saunderson was created by Edward Hurst.

The inscription reads:
Near this place lies the body of the Hon. / ELIZABETH SAUNDERSON widow of the Hon. Nicholas / Saunderson eldest son of the Rt. Hon. George Lord / Viscount Castleton of the Kingdom of Ireland / By whom she had only one son Wray Sounderson / who dyed without issue in her lifetime / She was the only Daughter and heire of St John WRAY / of Gentworth baronet / Who was great grandson of Sir Christopher / WRAY Lord Chief Justice of England / in the reigh of the renowned / QUEEN ELIZABETH.

(She died in York on 7 April 1714 in her 50th year)

May 2015

Glentworth, St Michael, Saunderson memorial
Glentworth, St Michael, Wray Memorial
Glentworth, St Michael, Wray Memorial
Glentworth, St Michael, Wray Memorial

The monument to Sir Christopher Wray (1524-1592) and his wife is made of alabaster, presumably from nearby Nottinghamshire.

Wray was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

He married Anne, daughter of Nicholas Girlington.  They had a son and two daughters.  Two other daughters died in infancy.

May 2015

Glentworth, St Michael church, Wray memorial
Gosberton, St Peter & St Paul, South Transept, Effigies
Gosberton, St Peter & St Paul, South Transept, Effigies
Gosberton, St Peter & St Paul, South Transept, Effigies

"In the south transept on a chest a pair of recumbent effigies, of a knight and lady.

He in a cusped ogee headed niche with crocketed pinnacles and censing angels in the spandrels, she on the floor beside him with mantle and cushion"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064425 

DB 6 May 2018 

Gosberton, St Peter & St Paul, Church
Goulceby, All Saints, Memorial
Goulceby, All Saints, Memorial
Goulceby, All Saints, Memorial

Memorial to Edward Cawdron Cordeaux - High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1963.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Lincolnshire 

Cordeaux Academy in Louth was "named after Captain Edward Cawdron Cordeaux, D.S.O., O.B.E., R.N., (born 24 July 1894, Caistor), a surgeon who lived at Goulceby House, Goulceby"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordeaux_Academy 

DB 9 September 2018

Goulceby, All Saints, church, Edward Cawdron Cordeaux, High Sheriff, Cordeaux Academy
Goulceby, All Saints, Memorial
Goulceby, All Saints, Memorial
Goulceby, All Saints, Memorial

A simple framed metal plaque on the north wall of the nave in memory of a former churchwarden.

Now rather hard to decipher, it reads:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ and in loving memory of/ Henry Broughton/ many years/ Churchwarden of the Parish/ Called into rest 7th January 1890,/ aged 90

Jean Howard, October 2023

Goulceby, All Saints, church, Henry Broughton
Grainthorpe, St Clement, Chancel, Monument
Grainthorpe, St Clement, Chancel, Monument
Grainthorpe, St Clement, Chancel, Monument

"In the chancel north wall a carved stone Gothic wall monument to the Crosland family d,1871"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308429 

DB 8 September 2019

Grainthorpe, Saint Clement, church
Grantham, St Anne, Chancel, War Memorial
Grantham, St Anne, Chancel, War Memorial
Grantham, St Anne, Chancel, War Memorial

"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS"

DB 27 June 2024

Grantham, St Anne, New Somerby, church, war memorial
Grantham, St Anne, North Aisle, Memorial
Grantham, St Anne, North Aisle, Memorial
Grantham, St Anne, North Aisle, Memorial

"This Brass was erected by the Parishioners of New Somerby in remembrance of the life and work of William Nash, for thirty years Rector of the Parish who died June 3rd 1905 , in the 75th year of his age. 

To him was due the building of the Schools in 1878, and of the Iron Church in 1884, and finally the inauguration of the Scheme for this Church, the Nave and Aisles of which were dedicated by the Bishop of Lincoln, May 30th 1907."

DB 27 June 2024

Grantham, St Anne, New Somerby, church
Grantham, St Wulfram, North Aisle, Middlemore Monument
Grantham, St Wulfram, North Aisle, Middlemore Monument
Grantham, St Wulfram, North Aisle, Middlemore Monument

Monument to Elizabeth Middlemore on the wall.

Pevsner states "Mrs Middlemore d. 1701. Tablet with convex inscription plate, three putti above, and columns l. and r., attributed to the circle of William Stanton"

DB 21 January 2020

Grantham, Saint Wulfram Church, Elizabeth Middlemore, monument, William Stanton
Grantham, St Wulfram, North Aisle, Ryder Monument
Grantham, St Wulfram, North Aisle, Ryder Monument
Grantham, St Wulfram, North Aisle, Ryder Monument

Monument to Sir Dudley Ryder, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench who died 1756.

The sculptor was Henry Cheere.

March 2017

Grantham, St Wulfram church, memorial, Sir Dudley Ryder, Henry Cheere
Grayingham, St Radegund, Monument
Grayingham, St Radegund, Monument
Grayingham, St Radegund, Monument
Grayingham, Saint Radegund Church, Image
Grayingham, St Radegund, Monument
Grayingham, St Radegund, Monument
Grayingham, St Radegund, Monument

"IN MEMORY OF EDWARD ADRIAN WOOORUFFE PEACOCK, PRIEST, RECTOR OF GRAYINGHAM 1919-1922"

DB 15 May 2022

Grayingham, Saint Radegund Church, Image
Grayingham, St Radegund, War Memorial
Grayingham, St Radegund, War Memorial
Grayingham, St Radegund, War Memorial

The First World War memorial to the fallen of the village. Sydney Douglas died in Mesopotamia.

Mark Acton, 2017

Grayingham, St Radegunda, First World War Memorial, Sydney Douglas
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Corbel & Plaque
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Corbel & Plaque
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Corbel & Plaque

This handsome corbel is on the north of the chancel arch close to the organ and is thought to depict Revd Frederic Pretyman. The plaque is in memory of Edith Smith who was organist for 40 years.

Jean Howard, June 2021

Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, corbel, Pretyman, Edith Smith
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
Monument to Frederic Pretyman.
 
On the north wall of the chancel are two monuments to Frederic Pretyman and his wife. Frederic Pretyman was a Canon of Lincoln Cathedral, grandson of Bishop George Pretyman Tomline and father of Rt Hon Ernest George Pretyman who developed the port of Felixstowe.
 
This is a very lovely memorial to an industrious cleric, the text now becoming quite hard to decipher. It reads :-
 
"IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ FREDERIC PRETYMAN BD/ BORN OCT 21st 1819 DIED FEB 14th 1905/ DURING HIS 35 YEARS RESIDENCE/ IN GREAT CARLTON HE EVER STROVE TO ACT/ UP TO HIS HIGH IDEAL OF DUTY, AND WAS/ BELOVED AND REVERED BY ALL THOSE AMONGST/ WHOM HE LIVED AND WORKED./ THE LINCOLNSHIRE CONVALESCENT HOME/ AT MABLETHORPE, THE ‘WELCOME’ AT LOUTH/ AND THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN AT FELIXSTOWE/ REMAIN WITH OTHER GOOD WORKS AS LASTING/ MEMORIALS OF HIS WISE AND EARNEST EFFORTS/ FOR THE GOOD OF OTHERS./ THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY HIS ONLY SURVIVING SON ERNEST GEORGE PRETYMAN"
 
A full-length portrait of Canon Pretyman is in the collection at the Usher Gallery and can be viewed at:
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/reverend-canon-frederic-pretyman-18201905-81965
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, monument, Frederic Pretyman
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
On the north wall of the chancel are two monuments to Frederic Pretyman and his wife. This is the  more ornate monument for Frederic Pretyman’s wife.
 
‘To the beloved memory of Georgina Elizabeth Pretyman wife of the Revd Frederic Pretyman BD/ Rector of Great Carlton and/ daughter of Edward Knight Esq/ of Chawton House Hampshire./ To the same fatherly hand that dealt the blow/ her bereaved husband would ascribe the gift of that/ gentle happy holy disposition which so won the/ hearts of all who knew her, and made her such an/ inestimable treasure to himself./ But in the wreck of his own earthly joys he has this/ assured consolation, that for her to depart and to be/ with Christ is far better./ She died May 26th 1864 after giving birth/ to a son who lived only a few hours.’
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, monument, Georgina Elizabeth Pretyman
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Brass Plaque
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Brass Plaque
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Brass Plaque

"A brass plaque to Frances Cawdron, d.1650"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168767 

DB 28 July 2018 

Great Hale, St John Baptist church, brass plaque, Frances Cawdron
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument

A monument to Robert Cawdron, died 1665.

June 2017

Great Hale, St John Baptist church, monument, Robert Cawdron
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument

"further alabaster wall plaque to Sir Robert Cawdron, d.1652, in the form of an aedicule with broken pediment with escutcheon and line carvings of weepers beneath"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168767 

DB 28 July 2018 

Great Hale, St John Baptist church, monument, Robert Cawdron
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument

"On the south wall is a wall plaque with scrolls and acanthus leaves to the wife of Robert Cawdron, d.1733"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168767?section=official-list-entry 

DB 4 July 2022

Great Hale, Saint John Baptist church, image, monument, Cawdron
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, Lady Chapel, Monument

"An ashlar wall plaque to Robert Cawdron, d.1714, Doric columns support a broken segmental pediment with paterae and flaming urn"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168767?section=official-list-entry 

DB 4 July 2022

Great Hale, Saint John Baptist church, image, monument, Robert Cawdron
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, North Aisle, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, North Aisle, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, North Aisle, Monument

Memorial to Rev. Ernest Julius Turckheim a former vicar. Erected by the parishioners 1908.

DB 4 July 2022

Great Hale, Saint John Baptist church, image, Turckheim
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, Monument

Monument in the vestry at the east end of the south aisle. 

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF EDWARD JOHN DAWSON, A NATIVE OF THIS PLACE, ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM THOMPSON, AND PENELOPE DAWSON, DIED THE 31ST OF JANUARY 1853, IN THE 49TH YEAR OF HIS AGE"

DB 4 July 2022

Great Hale, Saint John Baptist church, image, monument, EDWARD JOHN DAWSON
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, Monument
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, Monument

Monument in the vestry at the east end of the south aisle.  

"IN A VAULT IN THE ADJOINING CHURCH YARD, REST THE REMAINS OF WILLIAM THOMPSON DAWSON. LATE OF LEVERTON IN THIS COUNTY. HE WAS A NATIVE OF THIS PARISH, AND WAS BORN ON THE 10TH OF JUNE 1775 AND DIED ON THE 15TH OF JUNE 1844. 

ALSO PENELOPE HIS WIFE BORN ON THE 8TH OF APRIL 1783. DIED ON THE 7TH OF APRIL 1821. 

THE CHILDREN OF THESE BELOVED PARENTS HAVE RAISED THIS TABLET TO THEIR MEMORY AS A TOKEN OF AFFECTION AND GRATITUDE. 

CATHERINE ANN THEIR DAUGHTER DIED IN INFANCY"

DB 4 July 2022

Great Hale, Saint John Baptist church, image, monument, WILLIAM THOMPSON DAWSON
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, War Memorial
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, War Memorial
Great Hale, St John the Baptist, South Aisle, War Memorial

Memorials to the fallen of Great Hale and Little Hale in both World Wars.

Mark Acton, 2017

Great Hale, Little Hale, St John Baptist, War memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial

Located between two of the south facing chancel windows. 

"In:Memory:of:George:Stamp:Esquire:late:of:

Kingston:upor:Hull:Solicitor:and:as:a:testimory:

of:his:worth:and:of:their:respect:these:windows:

have:been:erected:by:his:friends:and:his:brethren:

of:the:legal.profession:He:departed:this: life the:

7th:November:1858:aged:50:years:and:was:

buried:at:this:his:native:place:"

DB 11 May 2024

Great Limber, Saint Peter Church
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF Colonel WILLIAM RICHARDSON, BORN 6TH APRIL, 1845, DIED 27 TH JUNE, 1909.

This Tablet is erected by his brother JOHN MAUNSELL RICHARDSON."

DB 11 May 2024

Great Limber, Saint Peter Church
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial

Located at the west end of the nave. 

"This Tablet is erected by VICTORIA COUNTESS OF YARBOROUGH in ever Loving Memory of Her dearly loved and deeply lamented Husband JOHN MAUNSELL RICHARDSON, ESQ., of Limber Magna, in the County of Lincoln. BORN 12TH JUNE, 1846, DIED 22ND JANUARY, 1912. "Jesus calls us to Heaven's perfect peace.""

"John Maunsell Richardson JP DL (Great Limber, Caistor, Lincolnshire 12 June 1846 – Westminster, London, 22 January 1912), known to his friends as the "Cat", was a cricketer who played First-class cricket for Cambridge University, Member of Parliament and a steeplechase jockey who won two Grand Nationals as a rider in the 1870s ...

In 1881, Richardson married Victoria Alexandrina (née Hare), the Countess of Yarborough and widow of his friend Charles Anderson-Pelham, 3rd Earl of Yarborough, who had died six years earlier."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maunsell_Richardson

DB 11 May 2024

Great Limber, Saint Peter Church
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial

Located at the west end of the nave.  

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM RICHARDSON, ESQ.E (ONE OF THE DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS OF THIS COUNTY) WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY 2ND 1830, ANNO ÆTATIS 78.

HE RESIDED IN THIS VILLAGE UPWARDS OF 40 YEARS. HE WAS HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED THROUGH LIFE, FOR HIS URBANITY OF MANNERS, AND SINCERITY OF FRIENDSHIP; AND POSSESSED IN A VERY HIGH DEGREE, THOSE AMIABLE AND ESTIMABLE QUALITIES, WHICH ENDEARED HIM TO HIS RELATIONS AND FRIENDS, AND ACQUIRED THE ESTEEM AND RESPECT OF ALL CLASSES OF SOCIETY.

ALSO OF CATHERINE, HIS BELOVED WIFE WHO DIED MARCH 1ST 1836, Æ 81.

THEIR REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN THE CHURCH AT IMMINGHAM IN THIS COUNTY. THIS TESTIMONIAL OF GRATITUDE, WAS ERECTED BY THEIR TRULY AFFECTIONATE GREAT NEPHEW, WILLIAM RICHARDSON."

DB 11 May 2024

Great Limber, Saint Peter Church, RICHARDSON
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial

Located at the west end of the nave above the tower doorway.

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. J. BUCKOLL, L. L. B. FOURTEEN YEARS VICAR OF THIS PARISH: WHO DIED MAY THE 12TH MDCCCXLIV IN THE 70TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. BE YE ALSO READY: FOR IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YE THINK NOT THE SON OF MAN COMETH. MATTH XXIV. 44."

DB 11 May 2024

Great Limber, Saint Peter Church
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial

Located at the west end of the nave.

"THIS TABLET SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM RICHARDSON ESQRE OF GREAT LIMBER IN THIS PARISH, BORN 18TH SEPTEMBER 1812, DIED OF CONSUMPTION IN LONDON 15TH MARCH 1850, WAS ERECTED BY HIS ONCE HAPPY WIFE, BUT AFTER HIS DEATH, DISCONSOLATE WIDOW. OTHERS CAN TESTIFY TO THE SOUNDNESS OF HIS JUDGEMENT, THE KINDNESS OF HIS DISPOSITION, AND THE PRACTICAL ENERGY WITH WHICH HE DISCHARGED ALL HIS SOCIAL AND OTHER DUTIES. BUT WHILE MANY BOTH KINSMENAND FRIENDS DEEPLY REGRET THE PREMATURE DEATH OF SUCH A MAN, SHE ALONE CAN DULY ESTIMATE THE SEVERITY OF THE BLOW WHICH HAS LEFT HER A WIDOW INDEED. AND HER THREE CHILDREN FATHERLESS. HE DIED A CHRISTIAN'S DEATH, FULL OF FAITH AND CHARITY, AND ALTHOUGH HE CANNOT RETURN TO THEM, MAY IT BE THEIR HAPPY LOT TO BE RE-UNITED TO HIM IN ANOTHER AND A BETTER WORLD. HIS REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN A VAULT ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE CHANCEL."

DB 11 May 2024

Great Limber, Saint Peter Church, WILLIAM RICHARDSON
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorial

"In ever loving memory of MARY ELIZA RICHARDSON of Limber born 21. Oct. 1847 died 4. April 1937"

DB 11 May 2024

Great Limber, Saint Peter Church
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorials
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorials
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, Memorials

Memorials positioned at the east end of the nave adjacent to the chancel screen. 

"In loving memory of MARY ELIZABETH CHRISTIAN WIFE OF THOMAS FFOSTER CHAMBERLAIN AT REST MARCH 21ST 1914 AGED 94"

"In loving memory of THOMAS FFOSTER CHAMBERLAIN HON. CANON OF MANCHESTER. VICAR OF THIS PARISH 1867 TO 1897"

DB 11 May 2024

Great Limber, Saint Peter Church
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, War Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, War Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, Nave, War Memorial

Located at the west end of the nave. 

"IN MEMORY OF JOHN CHARLES HEPTON WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR KING & COUNTRY LOST ON H. M.S. BOADICEA JUNE 13TH 1944. ACED 21 YEARS. GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54289 

DB 11 May 2024

Great Limber, Saint Peter Church, war memorial, JOHN CHARLES HEPTON
Great Limber, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial

"In Memory of The Revd THOS WALKDEN of this Place who died Octr 1st 1778 Æ 83. Also of FAITH, his Wife who died Novr 30th 1755, Æ 62 ... "

"At the west end of the south aisle is a black marble tablet, to the Rev. T. Walkden"

https://https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359817?section=official-list-entry  

DB 11 May 2024

Great Limber, Saint Peter Church, Walkden
Great Limber, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial
Great Limber, St Peter, South Aisle, Memorial

"SACRED to the Memory of Mary Holiwell (Relict of the Rev. George Holiwell) who died at Brigg on the 27th day of December 1801, in the 77th Year of her Age, beloved & lamented by all who knew her.

Mary Ann Holiwell daughter of the above, died at Swallow Nov.  27th 1851 Aged 85.

DB 11 May 2024

Great Limber, Saint Peter Church
Great Sturton, All Saints, Nave, Memorial
Great Sturton, All Saints, Nave, Memorial
Great Sturton, All Saints, Nave, Memorial

Memorial next to the chancel arch.

William Settle was Vicar of the parish for 52 years.

DB 6 February 2020

Great Sturton, All Saints, Church, memorial, William Settle
Greatford, St Thomas Becket, monument
Greatford, St Thomas Becket, monument
Greatford, St Thomas Becket, monument

Monument to Francis Willis, who treated King George III.

The inscription begins: Sacred to the memory of / Revd. FRANCIS WILLIS M.D. / who died on 5th December 1807 / in the 90th year of his age./ He was the third son of Revd. John Willis of Lincoln, a descendant of an ancient family of the same name that resided at Fenny Compton in Warwickshire.

September 2014

Greatford, St Thomas Becket monument, Francis Willis
Grimoldby, St Edith, South Aisle, Memorial
Grimoldby, St Edith, South Aisle, Memorial
Grimoldby, St Edith, South Aisle, Memorial

"Monument on north wall of nave to William Caley, died 1787, including roundel containing cross"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359986?section=official-list-entry

"Here lies the Body of William Caley of Grimoldby who died April the 21st. 1787 Aged 67 Years. and Sufan Caley his Wife who died Decr. the 29th. 1790 Aged 74 Years. and 4 of their Children who died Young. Alfo of Samuel Maftin of Grimoldby her Father who died Novr. the 16th. 1773 Aged 88 Years. Alfo of Sufan Maftin her Mother who died Novr. the 3rd. 1736 Aged 51 Years Alfo of Mary Caley the Mother of William Caley who died May the 31st. 1792 Aged 99 Years. May they Reft in Peace"

DB 15 September 2024

Grimoldby, St Edith church
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass Tablet, Algernon Massingberd
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass Tablet, Algernon Massingberd
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass Tablet, Algernon Massingberd

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / ALGERNON MASSINGBERD / WHO IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN / SHOT AT FORT TABATINGA ON THE / AMAZON RIVER. / JULY 1855 IN THE 27TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. / THIS TABLET IS PLACED TO HIS MEMORY / BY HIS MOTHER, CAROLINE, WIFE OF / ALGERNON LANGTON MASSINGBERD" 

Hounded by creditors Algernon departed for America early in 1852 never to return.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/gunby-estate-hall-and-gardens/features/the-massingberd-family 

DB 20 July 2018

Gunby, St Peter church, Brass Plaque, Algernon Massingberd, Fort Tabatinga, Amazon, Shot
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass, Sir Thomas & Johanna Massingberd
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass, Sir Thomas & Johanna Massingberd
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass, Sir Thomas & Johanna Massingberd

"In the nave a pair of fine brasses beneath a double canopy to Thomas Massinqberd of Gunby and Johanna his wife, d.c.1405"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359687 

DB 20 July 2018

Gunby, St Peter church, Brass, Sir Thomas Massingberd, Johanna
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass, William De Lodyington
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass, William De Lodyington
Gunby, St Peter, Memorial Brass, William De Lodyington

"Judqe William Lodynton d,1420, feet on a doq, under a cusped oqee canopy"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359687 

Justiciary in the court of Common Pleas during the reign of Henry V.

DB 20 July 2018

Gunby, St Peter church, brass, William De Lodyington, Justiciary, Common Pleas
Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Memorial (Cheales)
Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Memorial (Cheales)
Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Memorial (Cheales)

"IN MEMORIAM HENRY CHEALES M.A. SOMETIME VICAR OF BURTON PEDWARDINE. FOR SIXTY SIX YEARS A LANDOWNER OF THIS PARISH. BORN AT SLEAFORD 1796, DIED AT BOURNEMOUTH 1890.

DB 8 September 2024

Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity Church, Cheales
Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Memorial (Heckford)
Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Memorial (Heckford)
Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Memorial (Heckford)

"THE KNEELERS WERE PRESENTED IN 1987 BY BRENDA HECKFORD IN LOVING MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND JOHN. WORKED BY HER FRIENDS."

DB 8 September 2024

Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity Church
Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Memorial (Maddison WW1)
Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Memorial (Maddison WW1)
Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Memorial (Maddison WW1)

"In loving Memory of Private Colin Arthur Maddison Aged 24, and Lieut. Brian Armitage Maddison, R.N.R. Aged 20 who gave their lives for their country in the Great War. 1914-1918"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/59483 

DB 8 September 2024

Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity Church, Maddison war memorial
Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Memorial (Ramsden)
Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Memorial (Ramsden)
Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Memorial (Ramsden)

"THE ELECTRIC LIGHTING WAS INSTALLED IN THIS CHURCH TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE TAYLOR RAMSDEN BY HIS BROTHER JOHN WATKINSON RAMSDEN A.D. 1939 OF HAREBY"

DB 8 September 2024

Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity Church, Ramsden
Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity, Organ Chamber, Memorial (Harrison)
Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity, Organ Chamber, Memorial (Harrison)
Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity, Organ Chamber, Memorial (Harrison)

"TO THE MEMORY OF MRS HILDA HARRISON 1910-1997

ORGANIST IN THIS CHURCH FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS

"O PRAISE YE THE LORD, ALL THINGS THAT GIVE SOUND; EACH JUBILANT CHORD RE-ECHO AROUND""

DB 8 September 2024

Hagworthingham, Holy Trinity Church, organist
Hainton, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, Chancel, Monument

"Monument on north wall of chancel to John Heneage, died 1530 and wives, Purbeck marble tomb chest with unusual, cusped decoration.

Back wall with brass effigies of Heneage and wives kneeling at prieu- dieu with inscriptions issuing from mouths.

Low arch and cresting above"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147298 

DB 19 May 2019

Hainton, Saint Mary, Church, John Heneage
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument

"Monument on south wall of north chapel to Sir William Heneage, died 1610 and 2 wives, Anne 1585 and Jane 1596, of pink streaked and grey marble. Figures kneel before prieu-dieu, opposite each other. 2 bearded sons and 2 daughters kneel below. Large crest above with flanking scenes of Adam and Eve, and Resurrection"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147298

DB 19 May 2019

Hainton, Saint Mary, Church, Sir William Heneage
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument

"North chapel with tomb on west wall to John Heneage, died 1559 and wife Anne, died 1587; of stone with table tomb with coats of arms below, and above kneeling figures face each other over prieu-dieu, he in armour, both wearing ruffs and flanked by fluted columns. Round headed arches with raised keystones, and rich cresting above"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147298

DB 19 May 2019

Hainton, Saint Mary, Church, John Heneage
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument

Free standing pink, yellow streaked and grey marble monument with alabaster recumbent effigy of Sir George Heneage, died 1595.

Ornate strapwork and coats of arms on tomb"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147298 

DB 19 May 2019

Hainton, Saint Mary, Church, Sir George Heneage
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument

Momument by Bertuccini on the south wall of the chapel.

George Heneage, died 1731, with busts of his wives Mary and Elizabeth below.

DB 19 May 2019

Hainton, Saint Mary, Church
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument
Hainton, St Mary, North Chapel, Monument

Monument to three George Heneages on the south wall of the chapel 

George Heneage died 1659

George Heneage died 1667

George Heneage died 1692

DB 19 May 2019

Hainton, Saint Mary, Church, George Heneage
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, North Chapel, Memorial
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, North Chapel, Memorial
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, North Chapel, Memorial

"A marble wall memorial on the north chapel north wall, erected 1742, comprises an engraved plaque, this below an entablature with floriate details topped by a cockerel.

Below the entablature, and either side, hangs gathered drapes.

Below the plaque is an apron with Baroque scrollwork decoration, and a centred scroll-edged coat of arms.

The arms contain three white cockerels on blue field to the left, and three gold lion heads on a black bar with five gold bars, on a red field to the right.

The memorial is dedicated to Daniel de Ligne (died 12 December 1730) and Cadwallader Glynne (died 1 January 1736), the nephew and heir of Daniel de Ligne.

The monument notes that Glynne had bequested a yearly amount of £5 to be distributed to the poor of Harlaxton parish in perpetuity.

Further dedications on this plaque are to Anna Maria Glynne (died 28 November 1729), only daughter of Cadwallader Glynne, and Dorothy (died 5 August 1747), wife of Glynne and daughter of Benjamin Burell of Pethall, Devon"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary_and_St_Peter%27s_Church,_Harlaxton 

DB 26 September 2018

Harlaxton, Church of St Mary and St Peter, memorial, Daniel de Ligne
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, North Chapel, Memorial
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, North Chapel, Memorial
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, North Chapel, Memorial

"Memorials include a restored canopied niche in the north chapel with 2 alabaster figures, early C15"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1187962

Attributed to Sir Richard Rickhill and his wife, Elizabeth alternatively to William Rickhill, Justice of the Common Pleas, and his wife Elizabeth, c.1410.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary_and_St_Peter%27s_Church,_Harlaxton 

DB 26 September 2018

Harlaxton, Church of St Mary and St Peter, Sir Richard Rickhill
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, South Chapel, Memorial
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, South Chapel, Memorial
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, South Chapel, Memorial

Memorial "dedicated to Daniel Gregory (died 9 June 1819, aged 72), the fourth son of George Gregory of Harlaxton and his wife, Anne.

The monument was provided by the deceased's brother George De Ligne Gregory"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary_and_St_Peter%27s_Church,_Harlaxton 

DB 26 September 2018

Harlaxton, Church of St Mary and St Peter, memorial, Daniel Gregory
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, South Chapel, Memorial Brass
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, South Chapel, Memorial Brass
Harlaxton, St Mary & St Peter, South Chapel, Memorial Brass

"In the south chapel there is a commemorative brass plaque to William Strood and his wife Agnes, both of whom died in 1448"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary_and_St_Peter%27s_Church,_Harlaxton 

DB 26 September 2018

Harlaxton, Church of St Mary and St Peter, memorial brass, William Strood, Agnes Strood
Harmston, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Harmston, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Harmston, All Saints, Chancel, Monument

"Here lyes the Body of Sir George Thorold Knt: & Bart: who built new this Church and Chancel in the year 1717. and was Lord Mayor of the City of London 1720 ...."

Located south chancel on the opposite side to his brother Samuel's monument.

DB 8 May 2018   

Harmston, Church, All Saints, Memorial, George Thorold
Harmston, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Harmston, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Harmston, All Saints, Chancel, Monument

Memorial to Sir Samuel Thorold Bart. died 1738.

Located north chancel on the opposite side to his brother George's monument. 

DB 8 May 2018   

Harmston, Church, All Saints, Memorial, Samuel Thorold
Harpswell, St Chad, Chancel, Monument
Harpswell, St Chad, Chancel, Monument
Harpswell, St Chad, Chancel, Monument

"On the north wall of the chancel is a fifteenth-century brass of John Whichcote in armour and his wife, Elizabeth Tyrwhit, in a complex butterfly headdress"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Chad%27s_Church,_Harpswell 

DB 25 September 2018

Harpswell, Saint Chad, Church, John Whichcote, Elizabeth Tyrwhit, brass, monument
Harpswell, St Chad, South Aisle, Monument
Harpswell, St Chad, South Aisle, Monument
Harpswell, St Chad, South Aisle, Monument

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states  

"Recumbent stone effigy of a man in gown and hood worn over a tunic or cassock; on the head is a skull cap and at the feet a large grotesque head; below is an inscription to William de Harrington, rector here circ. 1346" 

DB 25 September 2018

Harpswell, Saint Chad, Church, monument, William de Harrington
Harpswell, St Chad, South Aisle, Monument
Harpswell, St Chad, South Aisle, Monument
Harpswell, St Chad, South Aisle, Monument

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"The church was restored in 1890-91 by the late Sir Thomas Whichcote bart. and on taking down the east wall of the chancel there was found in the basement a large stone slab, 7 feet in length and 22 inches wide, bearing the figure of a priest in vestments, and round the margin an inscription in Norman-French, undated, to John Gere, parson, of Harppeswelle"

Church Guide suggests a date about 1300.

DB 25 September 2018

Harpswell, Saint Chad, Church, monument, John Gere
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Choir Stalls 
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Choir Stalls 
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Choir Stalls 

A closer view of the C15 brass mounted on the choir stalls.

Kelly's Directory 1885 has "in the chancel, now removed from its slab, which is still on the floor, is a brass figure of Margaret (Tilney), wife of John Coppledike (1480); the figure of her husband and the marginal inscription are lost".

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church, brass
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Ledger Stone
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Ledger Stone
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Ledger Stone

Ledger stone at the far east end of the chancel part beneath the altar. 

"HERE LYETH THE BODY OF VINCENT AMCOTTS OF HARRINGTON IN THE COVNTY OF LINCOLN ESQ. SON. OF VINCENT AMCOTTS OF LANKTON  IN THE SAME COVNTY ESQ .. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 24 OF MAY ANNO DOMI 1686 ... "

The remainder of any inscription is now beneath the altar.  

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Ledger Stone
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Ledger Stone
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Ledger Stone

Another ledger stone used to floor the sanctuary.

"Here lyes the Body of MRS Amy Hall Eldeft Daughter & Coheir of Henry Mildmay of Grace In the County of Efsex Esqr by Cicely his firft Wife Daughter & Coheir of Iohn Barker of Haghmond in the County of Salop Fsqr

By her firft Hufband Vincent Amcotts of this Place Esqr she had 4 Sons & 3 Daughters of Which Vincent only is now living ... "

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Memorial
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Memorial
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Memorial

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF ROBERT WENTWORTH CRACROFT 54 YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH. THIS CHANCEL, RE-FURBISHED BY PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS, WAS DEDICATED BY THE LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN ON NOVEMBER 27TH 1906."

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church, ROBERT WENTWORTH CRACROFT
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Memorial
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Memorial
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Memorial

"SACRED TO CHE MEMORY OF THE REVEREND ROBERT WENTWORTH CRACROFT

FIFTY FOUR YEARS RECTOR OF HARRINGCON WITH BRINKHILL, BORN AT HARRINGTON HALL 15 JUNE 1826 YOUNGEST SON OF ROBERT CRACROFT - AFTERWARDS AMCOTTS - OF HACKTHORN IN THIS COUNTY BY HIS WIFE AUGUSTA DAUGHTER OF SIR JOHN INGILBY, BARONET, OF RIPLEY CASTLE YORKSHIRE BY ELIZABATH DAUGHTER AND HEIRESS OF SIR WHARTON AMCOTTS, BARONET AND HIS WIFE ANNA MARIA SISTER AND CO HEIRESS OF CHARLES AMCOTTS, OF AMCOTTS, HARRINGTON AND KETTLETHORPE. HE MARRIED THE HONBLE ELIZABETH CATHARINE LANE FOX WHO DIED AND WAS BURIED AC HARRINGTON 0TCOBER 1879. DURING HIS INCUMBENCY AND THROUGH HIS  INSCRUMENTALITY, THE CHURCHES AT HARRINGTON AND BRINKHILL WERE REBUILT.

HE WAS EVER A FAITHFULL FRIEND AND COUNSELLOR TO HIS PARISHIONERS AND NEIGHBOURS, BY WHOM HE WAS BELOVED AND RESPECTED, AND FOR FORTY YEARS HE ACTED AS HON. SECRETARY TO THE LINCOLNSHIRE BRANCH, OF THE LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.

HE FELL ASLEEP 22 MARCH 1905"

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Memorial
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Memorial
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Memorial

"The memorial to Tho. Copledike, 1658, has the apron decorated with a carved angel and is topped with a broken segmental pediment containing a shield"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063676?section=official-list-entry  

"PRETIOVS TO THE MEMORY OF THO: COPLEDIKE LATE OF HARRINGTON IN COM: LIN; ESQ THE SON OF THO. COPLE: 3D  BROTHER OF IOHN COP: ESQ SON & HEIR TO SR JOHN COP: HE MARRIED FIRST MARTHA Y DAVGHTER OF SR WILLIAM ELLIS OF LINCOLN, MARY HIS SECOND WIFE & EXECVTRIX THE DAVGHTER OF RICHARD ENDERBY OF METHRINGHAM IN COM:LIN: GEN. HE DECEASED ANO: D: 1658 THE 4TH OF SEPTEMBER AGED 72.

Vitimus Antiquæ stirpis jam conditur urna Quem Deus sterna flicitate beat Sic Genus et proavi,fugiunt fic omnia Sechi Aft ammis fanctis Cælica Regna manent. Lector abi,fatis eft, pofthac te vinere chrifto Atq mori mundo, fit tibi cura; Vale.

of ancient stock here lies ye last & best, Who hath attained to his eternall rest. This Monument bespeakes not him alone It saith the Familie with him is gone. But Heaven receiueth Saints they'r happy then which fiue as saints, although they die like men"

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Monument

An alabaster monument to Francis Copledyck who died in 1599.

Mark Acton, 2017

Harrington, St Mary, memorial, Francis Copledyck
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Monument

"Alabaster memorial to Francis Copuldyck and his wife and family, 1599, 2 kneeling figures with 2 further smaller similar figures in decorated aedicule surround flanked by single obelisks with decorative apron and coloured cartouche, flanked by single coloured shields on the crown."

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063676?section=official-list-entry 

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Monument

"In the chancel is a further tomb chest to John Copledike, 1585 and his wife, 1582. The sides of this tomb similarly decorated. 4 octagonal columns support a canopy with quatrefoil frieze and a cresting. The back panel now was 2 brass figures and 3 shields, also some blind tracery. Blind tracery to soffit."

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063676?section=official-list-entry 

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church, John Copledike
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Monument

"Sacred to the memory of CHARLES AMCOTTS Esquire Son of VINCENT & ELIZABETH AMCOTTS of HARRINGTON in this County, who died on the 14th of April 1777, aged 47 years ... "

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Monument
Harrington, St Mary, Chancel, Monument

A second view of Charles Amcotts' memorial which is to the north side of the altar.

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church
Harrington, St Mary, Nave, Monument
Harrington, St Mary, Nave, Monument
Harrington, St Mary, Nave, Monument

"South nave has an arched tomb recess containing the restored C14 effigy of a cross legged knight in chain mail with shield and feet on a lion"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063676?section=official-list-entry 

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church
Harrington, St Mary, Nave, Monument
Harrington, St Mary, Nave, Monument
Harrington, St Mary, Nave, Monument

Kelly's Directory 1885 mentions a series of monuments the oldest of which is placed beneath a mural arch, at the east end of the nave, bearing the recumbent effigy in stone of a knight in mail armour, his hands upraised and legs crossed, and probably representing Sir John Harrington (temp. Ed. I.)."

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church
Harrington, St Mary, Tower, Memorial
Harrington, St Mary, Tower, Memorial
Harrington, St Mary, Tower, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF THE REVD. HENRY TROLLOPE M.A. LATE RECTOR OF HARRINGTON AND BRINKHILL ... "

"The Rev. Henry Trollope, Rector of Harrington and Brinkhill, Lincolnshire. He was formerly of Clare hall, Cambridge, where he graduated B. A. 1795, as 5th Senior Optime, M. A. 1798, was presented to Harrington in 1802, by R. Cracroft, esq. and to Brinkhill in 1822, also by Mr. Cracroft"

https://google.cat/books?pg=PA320&dq=editions:OXFORD600005035&lr=&id=UOsIAAAAIAAJ&output=html_text 

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church
Harrington, St Mary, Tower, Memorial
Harrington, St Mary, Tower, Memorial
Harrington, St Mary, Tower, Memorial

"Sacred to the memory of ANNA MARIA AMCOTTS, Wife of Sir WHARTON AMCOTTS, of KETTLETHORPE in this county Bart: daughter of VINCENT and ELIZABETH AMCOTTS, of HARRINGTON ... "

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church
Harrington, St Mary, Tower, Tomb Chest
Harrington, St Mary, Tower, Tomb Chest
Harrington, St Mary, Tower, Tomb Chest

"Tower has a black stone tomb chest, the sides decorated with shields set into roundels. Over is a wall tablet containing 3 brass plaques, 2 of shields the third with inscription to John Copledike,1557 and his wife, 1552"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063676?section=official-list-entry 

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church
Harrington, St Mary, Tower, Wall Tablet
Harrington, St Mary, Tower, Wall Tablet
Harrington, St Mary, Tower, Wall Tablet

"Wall tablet containing 3 brass plaques, 2 of shields the third with inscription to John Copledike,1557 and his wife, 1552"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063676?section=official-list-entry 

DB 21 September 2024

Harrington, Saint Mary Church
Haugham, All Saints, Memorial (Chaplin)
Haugham, All Saints, Memorial (Chaplin)
Haugham, All Saints, Memorial (Chaplin)

It was the appointment of Revd G A Chaplin to the living that prompted the 1840 rebuilding of the church which had previously been described as a "mean barn-like structure", clearly unsuitable for an incumbent who was part of the land-owning family.

Jean Howard, 30 March 2021

Haugham All Saints church monument, Revd G A Chaplin
Haugham, All Saints, Memorial (Pearson)
Haugham, All Saints, Memorial (Pearson)
Haugham, All Saints, Memorial (Pearson)

William Hyde Pearson (1783-1849) was born at xxx. He qualified as a doctor and ran a successful London practice.
 
He acquired influential friends and patrons and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1826.
 
In 1838, in the Queen Victoria's Coronation honours, Pearson was knighted for his services in the collection of medical and statistical information in Europe and the East.
 
He died in Welton, Northamptonshire, and was buried at St Martin's Church in that village.

Jean Howard, 30 March 2021

Haugham All Saints church monument, William Hyde Pearson
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"Within these Rails lieth the Body of The Revd JOHN PARKINSON Formerly of Queens College Cambridge, And Rector of this Parish 40 Years, Who died January the 17th 1793, Aged 81.

Also FRANCES his Daughter Who died August the 29th 1779, Aged 24.

Also JAMES GREEN his Son, who died August the 9th 1786,Aged 22.

Also FRANCES the Wife of the above, Rev JOHN PARKINSON, Who died May 29th1807, Aged79 She was Daughter of the Revd JAMES GREEN and MARGARET his Wife, Who Also Lie Within these Rails." 

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"IN A VAULT OUT SIDE ARE INTERRED THE MORTAL REMAINS OF ELIZA THE BELOVED WIFE OF JOHN ILES OF BINBROOK HILL FORMERLY OF THIS PLACE  AND ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE LATE I WILSON M D OF SPALDING WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE FIRST DAY OF JUNE MDCCCXXXIX AGED 40 YEARS.

AS A DAUGHTER AS A WIFE AS A MOTHER SHE WAS AFFECTIONATE EXEMPLARY AND TENDER AS A FRIEND SHE WAS CONSTANT AND SINCERE IN HER ATTACHMENTS AS A CHRISTIAN SHE WALKED HUMBLY WITH HER GOD.

IN THE SAME VAULT LIES THE BODY OF JOHN ILES, WHO SURVIVING HIS WIFE 45 YEARS, BROUGHT UP THEIR NINE CHILDREN TO LIVE AND CALL HIM BLESSED, MUCH HONORED BY HIS NEIGHBOURS AND IN A GOOD OLD AGE, HE DIED AT ABBEY PARK, LOUTH, ON THE 12TH DAY OF DECEMBER 1884, AGED 91 YEARS" 

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT PARKINSON, LATE OF BARNOLDBY-LE-BECK IN THIS COUNTY SECOND SON OF THE REVD JOHN PARKINSON AND FRANCES HIS WIFE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY 6TH 1822, IN THE 63RD YEAR OF HIS AGE

ALSO IN DUTIFUL REMEMBRANCE OF RACHEL ANN ILES, SISTER OF THE ABOVE NAMED ROBERT PARKINSON WHOSE REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN A VAULT WITHOUT THESE WALLS. SHE WAS CHARACTERIZED HY GREAT STRENGTH OF MIND A WARM AND AFFECTIONATE DISPOSITION, AND BY CONSISTENT UNAFFECTED PIETY SUCH SHALL BE HAD IN EVERLASTING REMEMBRANCE"

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF AMELIA SURMAN, THE DEARLY BELOVED MOTHER OF REV. J. G. SURMAN, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPT. 22ND 1910, AGED 74 YEARS. INTERRED AT NUNHEAD CEMETERY. "HER CHILDREN ARISE UP, AND CALL HER BLESSED."

IN LOVING MEMORY OF JOHN GILBERT SURMAN.M.A. SON OF THE ABOVE RECTOR OF HEALING 1888 TO 1917. DIED DEC.20 TH 1917. LORD I HAVE LOVED THE HABITATION OF THY HOUSE AND THE PLACE WHERE THY HONOUR DWELLETH."

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

The inscription appears to read :- 

"SM.

VIRI REVERENDI JOIIANNIS PARKINSON AM. S.T.P HUJUS ECCLESLAE PER ANNOS QTATUOR ET QUADRAGINTA RECTORIS ECCLESIA APUD IMMINGHAM PER ANNOS QUATUOR ET QUINQUAGINTA VICARII E. COLL: BALIOL APUD OXONIENSES OLIM ALUMNI. DIEM OBIIT SUPREMUM JANUARII  XI MDCCCXXXVII AETATIS SUAE LXXIX. HOC MARMOR PIETATIS CAUSA LOCANDUM CURAVIT FILIUS UNICUS GULIELMUS GRANTHAM PARKINSON"

Google Translate renders this as :-

"THE REVEREND JOHN PARKINSON AM. S.T.P OF THIS CHURCH FOR FOUR AND FORTY YEARS THE RECTOR OF THE CHURCH AT IMMINGHAM FOR FOUR AND FIFTY YEARS THE VICAR OF E. COLL: BALIOL AT OXONIANS FORMER STUDENT. He died on January 11, 1837, aged 79. THE ONLY SON OF WILLIAM GRANTHAM PARKINSON MANAGED TO LOCATE THIS MARBLE CAUSE OF PIETY"

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF GILBERT FARR ESQ. WHO DIED 11TH JANY 1827. AGED 78 YEARS.

THIS MONUMENT WAS PLACED HERE BY HIS GRANDSON ALFRED A WALLIS AS A GRATEFULL TRIBUTE TO A KIND BENEFACTOR"

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF GERALD BERKELEY 7th VISCOUNT PORTMAN WHO DIED 3rd SEPTEMBER 1948 IN HIS 74th YEAR. RESIDENT IN THIS PARISH FOR 45 YEARS. A LOVER AND GENEROUS BENEFACTOR OF THIS CHURCH"

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church, GERALD BERKELEY 7th VISCOUNT PORTMAN
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF DOROTHY MARIE ISOLDE VISCOUNTESS PORTMAN WIFE OF THE 7TH VISCOUNT AND DAUGHTER OF SIR ROBERT SHEFFIELD, BARONET, NORMANBY PARK, LINCOLNSHIRE, WHO DIED 21ST MAY 1964 IN HER 87TH YEAR MUCH LOVED AND RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER"

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial
Healing, St Peter & Paul, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF LIEUT THOMAS CAPEL LOFT, OF H.M. 92ND HIGHLANDERS WHO DIED ON THE 7TH OF APRIL 1831, AGED 25 YEARS.

ALSO OF MARGARET BOSWELL LOFT, WIFE OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED ON THE 19TH OF APRIL 1860, AGED 50 YEARS.

ALSO OF LIEUT JOHN HENRY CAPEL LOFT, OF H. M. 64TH REGIMENT WHO WAS INVALIDED HOME FROM INDIA AND DIED IN THE MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL ON THE 12TH OF JANUARY 1850, AGED 20 YEARS."

DB 2 March 2024

Healing, St Peter & St Paul Church
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial

"... in grateful memory of Henry Godson by whose munificent bequest this Chancel was restored A.D. 1887, being the year of the Queens jubilee ..."

DB 20 June 2022

Heckington, Saint Andrew Church, image, Henry Godson
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF THE REVD. CHARLES DE LA COUR, TWENTY EIGHT YEARS VICAR OF THIS PARISH WHO DIED MARCH 15TH 1861 ... "

DB 20 June 2022

Heckington, Saint Andrew Church, image, CHARLES DE LA COUR
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Richard de Potesgrave
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Richard de Potesgrave
Heckington, St Andrew, Chancel, Richard de Potesgrave

"The tomb of Richard de Potesgrave, builder of the chancel. It is a broad moulded and pointed tomb recess with elaborate ogee cusping to the underside. The effigy is clad in full vestments, but the face has been despoiled. The edge of the slab supporting the effigy has a hollow chamfer containing ballflowers with brattishing"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360590?section=official-list-entry 

Local signage states "The founder's tomb of Richard de Potesgrave depicted in his priestly vestments. He died at the age of about 75 in 1349, possibly of the Black Death. In the case above his mutilated effigy is his communion chalice, found when the tomb was opened in 1800".

DB 20 June 2022

Heckington, Saint Andrew Church, image, Tomb of Richard de Potesgrave
Heckington, St Andrew, Memorial Brasses
Heckington, St Andrew, Memorial Brasses
Heckington, St Andrew, Memorial Brasses

Memorial brasses for John Cadron d.1488 and William Cawdron sometime Bailiff of Heckington.

DB 20 June 2022

Heckington, Saint Andrew Church, image, brass
Heckington, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial

At the west end of the nave adjacent to the tower arch. 

"NEAR THIS PLACE ARE DEPOSITED THE EARTHLY REMAINS OF GEORGE (SON OF THE LATE GEORGE AND ELIZABETH,) STRUGGLES. HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEBRUARY THE 24TH. 1844 AGED 51 YEARS" 

DB 25 June 2022

Heckington, Saint Andrew Church, image, George Struggles
Heckington, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial

Memorial to Mrs Faith Ovens at the west end of the south aisle.

Above a modern kitchen area. 

DB 25 June 2022

Heckington, Saint Andrew Church, image, Faith Ovens
Heckington, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial
Heckington, St Andrew, South Aisle, Memorial

Monument to William Durance d.1845.

Located next to the war memorial hence the hanging banner. 

DB 8 July 2022

Heckington, St Andrew, South Aisle, William Durance
Heckington, St Andrew, South Transept, Monument
Heckington, St Andrew, South Transept, Monument
Heckington, St Andrew, South Transept, Monument

"C14 effigy to a civilian ... the figure appears as a praying bust in a quatrefoil surround"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360590?section=official-list-entry 

Local signage has "This 14th century effigy in the transept floor may represent Potesgrave's father".

DB 20 June 2022

Heckington, Saint Andrew Church, image, effigy
Helpringham, St Andrew, War Memorial
Helpringham, St Andrew, War Memorial
Helpringham, St Andrew, War Memorial

The First World War memorial to the fallen of the village.

Mark Acton, 2017

Helpringham, First World War
Hemingby, St Margaret, Nave, Monument
Hemingby, St Margaret, Nave, Monument
Hemingby, St Margaret, Nave, Monument

"White marble monument on black marble field, to Mrs. Baker of Orsett Hall, Essex, died 1849"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1307152 

"... SHE BEQUEATHED 1500 CONSOLS THE INTEREST TO BE DISTRIBUTED ANNUALLY IN COALS AMONG THE POOR OF THIS PARISH ..."

The first British Consols (perpetual bonds) were issued in 1751.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consol_(bond) 

DB 3 September 2018

Hemingby, St Margaret, church, monument, Mrs. Baker, Orsett Hall, Consols
Hemingby, St Margaret, Nave, Monument
Hemingby, St Margaret, Nave, Monument
Hemingby, St Margaret, Nave, Monument

"Grey and white marble monument with urn flanked by single globes, to the Reverend Joseph Carr, died 1768"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1307152 

"... ABOVE 40 YEARS, THE MOST WORTHY RECTOR OF THIS PARISH"

DB 3 September 2018 

Hemingby, St Margaret, church, monument, Reverend Joseph Carr
Hemswell, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial
Hemswell, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial
Hemswell, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial

Memorial on the south wall.

"NEAR THIS PLACE LIETH THE MORTAL REMAINS OF JOHN WEST WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JUNE 21ST A.D. 1840, AGED 54 YEARS ... "

DB 6 March 2023

Hemswell, All Saints Church, image
Hemswell, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial
Hemswell, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial
Hemswell, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial

First World War memorial to the fallen of Hemswell.

Mark Acton 2014

Hemswell, war memorial, All Saints church
Hemswell, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial
Hemswell, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial
Hemswell, All Saints, North Aisle, War Memorial

"IN PROUD AND HONOURED MEMORY OF DOUGLAS JAMES POPPLE FLIGHT SERGEANT RAF WHO GAVE HIS LIFE ON ACTIVE SERVICE 24TH JULY 1942 AGED 22 YEARS.

THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE.

ERECTED BY HIS FELLOW PARISHIONERS"

DB 6 March 2023

Hemswell, All Saints Church, image, war memorial
Heydour, St Michael, monument
Heydour, St Michael, monument
Heydour, St Michael, monument

Monument by Scheemakers to Sir Michael Newton (died 1746).

Mark Acton, 2016

Heydour, St Michael church, monument, Scheemakers, Michael Newton
High Toynton, St John Baptist, Monuments
High Toynton, St John Baptist, Monuments
High Toynton, St John Baptist, Monuments

"4 stone monuments with urns and aprons of various designs, to Thomas Ball, died 1805; Thomas Ball, died 1819: Thomas Ball, died 1835 and John Ball, died 1845"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062998 

Image shows the monument to Thomas Ball, died 1805 and Mary his wife.

DB 9 November 2018

High Toynton, Saint John Baptist, church, chancel, monuments, Thomas Ball
Holbeach, All Saints, Monument
Holbeach, All Saints, Monument
Holbeach, All Saints, Monument

The late 14th century monument to Sir Humphrey Littlebury in All Saints Church is thought to have been sculpted by Bristol craftsmen.

On the cresting of the recumbent figure's helmet is a head.

Ken Redmore, 2010

Holbeach, All Saints church, monument, Humphrey Littlebury,
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVD JOHN HALE, M.A. OXFORD. RECTOR OF THIS PARISH 42 YEARS ... "

DB 12 September 2021

Holton cum Beckering, All Saints Church, John Hale
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF GILBERT CALDECOTE ESQR COLONEL OF THE ROYAL NORTH LINCOLN MILITIA ... "

DB 12 September 2021

Holton cum Beckering, All Saints Church, GILBERT CALDECOTE
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MARY MARGARET, THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE REVEREND JOHN HALE A.M. RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, WHO DEPARTED THIS TRANSITORY LIFE, ON THE 22 FEBRUARY A.D. 1817, AGED 36 YEARS, NOT MORE AS A TESTIMONY OF HIS SINCERE AFFECTION AND REGRET THAN SOLEMNLY TO WARN THE THOUGHTLESS, THAT IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH, AND TO MAKE KNOWN TO POSTERITY A SINGULAR PATTERN OF BLAMELESS AND ENDEARING MANNERS AND OF EVERY DOMESTIC VIRTUE, HER AFFLICTED HUSBAND HATH CAUSED THIS MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED"

DB 12 September 2021

Holton cum Beckering, All Saints Church
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial
Holton cum Beckering, All Saints, Memorial

"... REVD EDWARD FRANKS HODGSON M.A. 30 YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH ... DIED ON THE 9TH MARCH 1882 ..."

DB 12 September 2021

Holton cum Beckering, All Saints Church
Honington, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, Chancel, Monument

Kelly's Directory 1930 notes "in the pavement of the chancel is a huge grey slab, formerly commemorating a priest, part of whose effigy remains, but over this is now a brass inscribed to John Hussey esq. ob. 1587, and Elizabeth, his wife"

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image
Honington, St Wilfrid, Nave, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, Nave, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, Nave, Monument

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF JOHN ALGERNON BASTARD WHO DIED NOV.20.1908 AGED 64. ERECTED BY HIS DEVOTED SISTER E.L.THOROLD"

DB 20 April 2023 

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument

Monument to Sir William Hussey, d.1691.

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument

"Altar tomb resting on lion supporters with a garooned base bearing an incised effigy of William Smith, d.1550"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062413?section=official-list-entry 

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image, monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument

"IN Memory of SARAH HUSSEY WIFE OF ROBERT AP REECE, of Washingley, in the County of Huntingdon, Esqre. She was the Daughter and Heir of Sir Thomas Hussey of Huntingdon, Bart. descended from the 2nd Brother of the Right Honble. John, Lord Hussey, Baron of Sleeford, and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lincoln. This Family did derive their Descent from the ancient Barons HOESE, or HUSE: Temp. HEN. III. and EDW. I. II. & III. She died the 23d of April, 1749."

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image, monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument

Portrait bust of Sir Thomas Hussey bart., d.1698.

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image, monument, Sir Thomas Hussey
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument

"On the north wall, monuments to Sir William Hussey, d.1691 and Dame Sarah Hussey d.1697 with broken pediment, scrolly cartouches and cherubs"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062413?section=official-list-entry 

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image, Hussey
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monument

"THIS TABLET IS ERECTED IN MEMORY OF HARRIET BROOKE COLES ... MARCH 2ND 1858 ... AGED 76 YEARS"

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image, memorial, HARRIET BROOKE COLES
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monuments
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monuments
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, Monuments

"Monuments:- those in the north aisle are a notable collection; on the east wall is a marble plaque to Sir Thomas Hussey bart., d.1698 with a gadrooned base supporting a portrait bust and surmounted by a scrolly cartouche bearing a shield of arms. On the north wall, monuments to Sir William Hussey, d.1691 and Dame Sarah Hussey d.1697 with broken pediment, scrolly cartouches and cherubs. Also an altar tomb in the north east angle of the chapel to Thomas Hussey, son of Sir Thomas, d.1676 aged 15 years, black marble ledger slab above limestone tomb chest"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062413?section=official-list-entry 

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, War Memorial
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, War Memorial
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, War Memorial

Wooden cabinet containing a crucifix and lists of names of those who served and those who died.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54220 

"MADE FROM TIMBER REMOVED FROM H.M.S. BRITTANIA, CADET TRAINING SHIP AT DARTMOUTH 1869-1905" 

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image, war memorial, H.M.S. BRITTANIA
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, War Memorial Plaque
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, War Memorial Plaque
Honington, St Wilfrid, North Aisle, War Memorial Plaque

WW1 memorial plaque.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54219 

DB 20 April 2023

Honington, Saint Wilfrid Church, Image, war memorial plaque
Horbling, St&nbspAndrew, war memorial
Horbling, St Andrew, war memorial
Horbling, St Andrew, war memorial

The First World War memorial to the fallen of the village.

Mark Acton, 2017

Horbling, First World War
Horsington, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial
Horsington, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial
Horsington, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial

"A memorial brass erected by Mrs. Cowper Smith to her son Capt. Arthur Monro Cowper Smith, who died 28th Sept. 1898, of injuries received in a grass fire while shooting big game on the Pungwe river"

The Pungwe River is a 250 mile long river in Zimbabwe and Mozambique,

DB 8 April 2017

Horsington, All Saints Church, image, Capt. Arthur Monro Cowper Smith, Pungwe river
Horsington, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial
Horsington, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial
Horsington, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial

"Lieut. Evan Cowper Smith, son of the Rev. J. F. Smith, a former rector, who died of fever while serving in Afghanistan, July 26, 1880, aged 19"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/94253 

DB 8 April 2017

Horsington, All Saints Church, image, Lieut. Evan Cowper Smith, Afghanistan
Horsington, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial
Horsington, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial
Horsington, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial

"In Memory Of Colonel Bonar Millet Deane Second Son Of The Revd George Deane Late Rector Of Bighton Who Fell On The Path Of Duty To His Queen And Country In South Africa Gallantly Leading A Column Of The 58th Regt Under General G Colley At The Battle Of Laings Nek January 28th 1881 Aged 46 Years He Fought A Good Fight He Kept The Faith Jesu Mercy"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/94250 

First Boer War memorial on the south side of the chancel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Laing%27s_Nek 

DB 25 July 2024

Horsington, All Saints Church, Colonel Bonar Millet Deane, Battle Of Laings Nek
Horsington, All Saints, Nave, War Memorial
Horsington, All Saints, Nave, War Memorial
Horsington, All Saints, Nave, War Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF THE GREAT WAR"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/20412 

DB 25 July 2024

Horsington, All Saints Church, war memorial
Hough on the Hill, All Saints, Monument
Hough on the Hill, All Saints, Monument
Hough on the Hill, All Saints, Monument

Monument to Edward Payne situated behind the organ.

"2 large monuments in north arcade, both in white and grey marble with sarcophagus and obelisk, to Edward Payne, died 1710 and Thomas Payne, died 1742"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360316 

"To the memory of EDWARD PAYNE ESQ who early engaged in the Cause of Liberty and Religion. In a meeting of the Gentlemen and Clergy of the County He (being then High Sheriff) publicly declared He would stand or fall with the PRINCE of ORANGE ... "

DB 26 June 2018

Hough on the Hill, All Saints Church, Monument, Edward Payne, Prince of Orange
Hough on the Hill, All Saints, Monuments
Hough on the Hill, All Saints, Monuments
Hough on the Hill, All Saints, Monuments

Ashton family monuments, 

"Black and white marble monument on north wall of nave to Arabella Ashton died 1792"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360316 

DB 26 June 2018

Hough on the Hill, All Saints Church, Monument, Arabella Ashton
Hougham, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial Rev. George Thorold
Hougham, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial Rev. George Thorold
Hougham, All Saints, Chancel, Memorial Rev. George Thorold

"Marble wall plaque on south wall of chancel, still life of chalice and books to Rev. George Thorold, d.1832, by P. Rouw"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062889 

Viewed through an external window. 

DB 28 May 2020

Hougham, All Saints, Church, Rev. George Thorold, P. Rouw
Howell, St Oswald, monument
Howell, St Oswald, monument
Howell, St Oswald, monument

The north chapel. A fourteenth-century monument slab with images of a lady and a child praying.

Mark Acton, 2017

Howell, St Oswald, monument
Howell, St Oswald, monument
Howell, St Oswald, monument
Howell, St Oswald, monument

In the north chapel, a monument to Sir Charles Dymoke, died 1602, and his wife.

Mark Acton, 2017

Howell, St Oswald, Charles Dymoke
Huttoft, St Margaret, Floor Slab
Huttoft, St Margaret, Floor Slab
Huttoft, St Margaret, Floor Slab

"Monuments. 2 incised floor slabs to Bartholomew Note, d.1473 and Maud Note"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360009?section=official-list-entry

DB 14 June 2023

Huttoft, Saint Margaret Church, image, Maud Note
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, Memorial
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, Memorial
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, Memorial

"IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM ROBINSON A NATIVE OF THIS PARISH, WHO DIED AT ALFORD 16TH MARCH 1882, IN HIS 82ND YEAR.

THE DECEASED BY HIS WILL BEQUEATHED £400 TO THE VICAR AND CHURCHWARDENS OF HUTTOFT IN TRUST TO INVEST OF IN THEIR NAMES AND PAY THE INTEREST THEREOF ON THE FIRST MONDAY IN JANUARY ANNUALLY FOR EVER EQUALLY AMONGST THE FOUR MOST DESERVING LABOURING MEN RESIDING IN THIS PARISH IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR RELIGIOUS CREED. EACH NOT BEING OWNER OR OCCUPIER OF MORE THAN ONE ACRE OF LAND WHO SHALL HAVE BROUGHT UP THE LARGEST FAMILY WITHOUT PAROCHIAL RELIEF, LESS DUTY"

DB 14 June 2023

Huttoft, Saint Margaret Church, image, memorial
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF PRIVATE FRANK EDWARD ROBINSON 2ND LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. REPORTED MISSING AT LE TRANSLOY, FRANCE. 23RD OCTOBER 1916. LATER REPORTED KILLED ON THAT DATE AGED 33 YEARS "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS""

DB 14 June 2023

Huttoft, Saint Margaret Church, image, war memorial
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial 
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial 
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial 

Plaque on the screen of the War Memorial Chapel at the east end of the south aisle.

DB 14 June 2023

Huttoft, Saint Margaret Church, image, war memorial
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial 
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial 
Huttoft, St Margaret, South Aisle, War Memorial 

Inscription on the screen of the War Memorial Chapel at the east end of the south aisle.

"In Memoriam R.I.P ... WHO WERE VICTIMS OF THE GREAT WAR. 1914-1918"

DB 14 June 2023

Huttoft, Saint Margaret Church, image, war memorial
Immingham, St Andrew, Monument
Immingham, St Andrew, Monument
Immingham, St Andrew, Monument

Unusual to find reference to a broken monument being replaced :- 

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM RICHARDSON, ESQ ONE OF THE DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS OF THIS COUNTY WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY 2ND 1830. ANNO ATATIS 78. HE WAS HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED THROUGH LIFE FOR HIS URBANITY OF MANNERS AND SINCERITY OF FRIENDSHIP, AND POSSESSED IN A VERY HIGH DEGREE THOSE VIRTUES,WHICH NOT ONLY ENDEARED HIM TO HIS RELATIONS AND FRIENDS, BUT ACQUIRED FOR HIM THE ESTEEM AND RESPECT OF ALL CLASSES OF SOCIETY. ALSO OF CATHERINE HIS BELOVED WIFE WHO DIED MARCH OT 1836, AGED 81 YEARS. THEIR REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN THIS CHURCH. THIS TESTIMONIAL OF GRATITUDE WAS ERECTED BY THEIR TRULY AFFECTIONATE GREAT NEPHEW. 

THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THEIR GREAT GREAT NEPHEWS WILLIAM AND JOHN MAUNSELL RICHARDSON, TO REPLACE ONE WHICH FELL AND WAS BROKEN. 1907"

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, WILLIAM RICHARDSON
Immingham, St Andrew, Nave, Monument
Immingham, St Andrew, Nave, Monument
Immingham, St Andrew, Nave, Monument

"Ashlar wall tablet at west end of nave to John Teale of 1809 with oval medallion and rosettes in relief"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1310011?section=official-list-entry 

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial

"THESE MEN OF OUR PARISH GAVE THEIR LIVES 1939 - 1945 ...

GIVE PEACE IN OUR TIME O LORD"

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial

"OUR MEN OUR FELLOW WORKERS OUR FRIENDS OUR HUSBANDS OUR SONS THEY DIED FOR US BEHOLD THEY ARE ALIVE ...

THE GERAT WAR 1914 - 1918"

Kelly's Directory 1930 notes "the parish war memorial is an alabaster tablet erected near the pulpit, the names of the 28 men of the parish who were killed being inscribed on it"

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Blackwhale
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Blackwhale
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Blackwhale

"The patrol vessel struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off Fife Ness (56°19′N 0°45′W) with the loss of twelve of her crew"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_January_1918 

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, HMS Blackwhale
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Doon, HMS Itchen ...
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Doon, HMS Itchen ...
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Doon, HMS Itchen ...

HMS Doon, HMS Itchen, HMS Bat, HMS Legion, HMS Fairy and HMS Dee

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, HMS Doon Itchen Bat Legion Fairy Dee
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Wallington
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Wallington
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMS Wallington

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD & IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF THE BRAVE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING THE GREAT WAR AND WHOSE NAMES WERE ON THE BOOKS OF H.M.S. "WALLINGTON" AT IMMINGHAM NAVAL BASE THE MEMORIAL TABLETS IN THIS CHURCH ARE ERECTED BY THEIR BROTHER SAILORS"

"8 alabaster wall tablets in south aisle to naval casualties of 1914-1918 War"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1310011?section=official-list-entry 

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, HMS Wallington
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Asia
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Asia
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Asia

"H.M.T. "ASIA" MINED WHILE ENGAGED IN RESCUING SURVIVORS FROM TORPEDOED SHIP 12TH SEPTEMBER 1917 ...

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, HMT Asia
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Cotsmuir
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Cotsmuir
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Cotsmuir

"H.M.T. "COTSMUIR" SHIP & ALL HANDS LOST AT SEA EITHER BY ENEMY MINE OR SUBMARINE 2ND FEBRUARY 1917"

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, HMT Cotsmuir
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Epworth
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Epworth
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Epworth

"H.M.T. "EPWORTH" LOST AT NIGHT BY COLLISION, 22ND MAY, 1917"

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, H.M.T. EPWORTH
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Margate
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Margate
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMT Margate

"H.M.T. "MARGATE." SUNK IN ACTION AFTER A GALLANT FIGHT WITH AN ENEMY SUBMARINE 14TH APRIL, 1917"

"The naval trawler was shelled and sunk in the North Sea off Spurn Head, Yorkshire by SM UC-50 ( Imperial German Navy) with the loss of thirteen of her crew"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_April_1917 

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, H.M.T. MARGATE
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMY Mekong, HMT Valpa & HMT Gaul
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMY Mekong, HMT Valpa & HMT Gaul
Immingham, St Andrew, War Memorial, HMY Mekong, HMT Valpa & HMT Gaul

"H.M YACHT "MEKONG" WRECKED 12TH MAR. 1916 ...

H.M.T. "VALPA" MINED & SUNK WHILE ENGAGED IN SALVAGE WORK 19TH MARCH, 1916 ...

H.M.T. "GAUL" IN ACTION WITH ENEMY SUBMARINE 24TH APRIL, 1917" ..."

DB 7 September 2023

Immingham, Saint Andrew church, image, war memorial, HM Yacht Mekong, HMT Valpa, HMT Gaul
Ingoldmells, St Peter & St Paul, North Chapel, Monument
Ingoldmells, St Peter & St Paul, North Chapel, Monument
Ingoldmells, St Peter & St Paul, North Chapel, Monument

"In the north chapel a small brass to William Palmer d.1520, depicting a cripple with his crutch"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204941?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 September 2022

Ingoldmells, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, image, brass, William Palmer
Ingoldmells, St Peter & St Paul, South Chapel, Ledger Slab
Ingoldmells, St Peter & St Paul, South Chapel, Ledger Slab
Ingoldmells, St Peter & St Paul, South Chapel, Ledger Slab

C15 ledger slab.

Kelly's Directory 1913 comments "the church was once very rich in sepulchral slabs, but in 1746, when the interior was refloored, many were destroyed and others have since disappeared"

DB 11 September 2022

Ingoldmells, Saint Peter & Saint Paul, church, ledger slab
Ingoldsby, St Bartholomew
Ingoldsby, St Bartholomew
Ingoldsby, St Bartholomew

First World War memorial to the fallen of the parish.

Mark Acton, 2018

Ingoldsby, First World War memorial, St Bartholomew
Ingoldsby, St Bartholomew, War Memorial
Ingoldsby, St Bartholomew, War Memorial
Ingoldsby, St Bartholomew, War Memorial

The First World War memorial to the fallen of the parish.

Mark Acton, 2018

Ingoldsby, St Bartholomew
Irnham, Saint Andrew, Chancel, Brass
Irnham, Saint Andrew, Chancel, Brass
Irnham, Saint Andrew, Chancel, Brass

"In the chancel a small mid C15 figure of a knight in full armour, inscription missing, possibly to Sir Geoffrey Hilton"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308771 

DB 27 June 2018 

Irnham, Saint Andrew, Church, brass
Irnham, Saint Andrew, North Chapel, Brass
Irnham, Saint Andrew, North Chapel, Brass
Irnham, Saint Andrew, North Chapel, Brass

"In the north chapel a handsome brass to Sir Andrew Luttrell, d.1390.

Depicting deceased life-sized beneath a cusped ogee canopy, wearing plate armour with feet on a lion and inscription at the base"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308771 

He was the son of Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, who commissioned the Luttrell Psalter, one of the most famous medieval manuscripts because of its rich illustrations of everyday life in the 14th century.

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-luttrell-psalter 

DB 27 June 2018  

Irnham, Saint Andrew, Church, brass, Sir Andrew Luttrell
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

A memorial in the nave of the church to two local women who lost their lives when the Lusitania sank.

July 2014

Keelby, St Bartholomew church, memorial, Lusitania, Annie Lancaster, Dorothy Lancaster
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF ANNIE LANCASTER AND DOROTHY LANCASTER OF KEELBY MANOR, WHO LOST THEIR LIVES THROUGH THE SINKING OF THE "LUSITANIA" 7TH MAY 1915"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/48922 

"The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles (20 kilometres) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_RMS_Lusitania 

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image, RMS Lusitania
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

"IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF ELIZABETH HOLGATE OF KEELBY GRANGE WHO DIED ON THE 4TH OF JULY 1874"

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

"THE KING'S OWN

In Loving Memory of Our dearly beloved Son & Brother. Pte. Arthur Frederick Jackson, Of the King's Own Royal Lancasters. Who died of Wounds in France August 14th 1917. Aged 20 Years"

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF WM FREAR HOLGATE, OF KEELBY GRANGE, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPR 12, 1868, AGED 63"

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

"North wall of chancel has a wall plaque to John South, d.1591, a square marble plaque in a marble frame with circular pendent motif below and 2 obelisks flanking a cartouche of arms above, central panel flanked by vertical margins containing ribbons, incised skulls and hourglasses"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image, John South
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Nave, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Nave, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, Nave, Memorial

Memorial positioned near the pulpit. 

"In Memoriam JOHN SMITH OF KEELBY MANOR BORN AUG. 11TH, 1808, DIED JULY 13TH, 1873. AND MARY HIS WIFE WHO DIED JANUARY 3RD, 1885, AGED 73 YEARS"

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image
Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Memorial

This memorial bust of Alice South is in the north aisle.  Hands clasped in prayer, she wears  a ruff and has a cowled head.

The Souths once held the manor of Keelby.

The inscription below the bust reads:
Here lies Alice South whose life had weathered sixty winters when it ceased its lingering course.  Though wooed by the flower of youth and a troop of nobles, she remained for fourteen years in lonely widowhood, out of affection for her children, to whom, rejecting a second marriage, she made over ere death took her, her fortune unimpaired - all her fortune, that is, save what had been devoured by the parasite and wretched crowd of suitors who haunted her hospitable walls. Happy children to whom but for her request would have fallen sorrow and sighing in place of ease she bequeathed to them. 'Husband take and keep me in the tomb' were her dying words, then passed into the funeral urn the ashes of a thus dutiful wife. Died 3 May 1605

July 2014

Keelby, St Bartholomew church, memorial, Alice South
Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Memorial

Closer view of the portrait bust.

"In the north wall of the north aisle a recessed circular marble frame with guilloche decoration containing a portrait bust of Alice South, d,1605. She with hands clasped in prayer, with a ruff and cowled head"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image, Memorial Alice South
Keelby, St Bartholomew, South Aisle, War Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, South Aisle, War Memorial
Keelby, St Bartholomew, South Aisle, War Memorial

"LEST WE FORGET 1939 - 1945"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/48923 

DB 7 September 2023

Keelby, Saint Bartholomew Church, image, war memorial
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Booth)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Booth)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Booth)

Sacred to the Memory of/ RICHARD PARNELL BOOTH/ late of Calcethorpe/ who departed this Life January 31st 1837,/ Aged 53(?) Years./ "Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour/ as ye think not the Son of man cometh.”/ Matthew 24 C. 44 V.

The monument is signed Geo Earle, Hull [Note – not John Earle as stated by Pevsner].

Jean Howard, January 2024

Kelstern, Saint Faith Church, monument, Richard Parnell Booth
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Booth)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Booth)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Booth)

This small slate ledger is in the tower.

It is in memory of Richard Parnell Booth who died 31st January1837 ? Aged 6 years.

Jean Howard, January 2024

Kelstern, Saint Faith Church, Richard Parnell Booth
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Denison)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Denison)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Denison)

A wall tablet in alabaster to a father William Evelyn Denison and his only son, William Frank Evelyn Denison who died in France in 1918.

The father was an MP for Nottinghamshire and inherited the estate at Ossington Hall from his childless uncle, Viscount Ossington; see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Evelyn_Denison

An excellent biography of the son can be found at: 

https://secure.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/RollOfHonour/People/Details/2353  

Letters written by the son to his mother while in the military are in the Imperial War Museum.

For information about the Evelyn family see the following link to University of Nottingham archives:

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/collectionsindepth/family/denison/biographies/biographyofwilliamevelyndenison(1843-1916).aspx 

Jean Howard, January 2024

Kelstern, Saint Faith Church, war memorial, William Frank Evelyn Denison, Ossington
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Harrison)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Harrison)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (Harrison)

A 20th century monument unusually in alabaster to a soldier of the Lincolnshire Regiment, the sphinx depicted in the pediment.

In gold inscribed lettering it reads: SACRED TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ MY DARLING HUSBAND/ THOMAS WALTER HARRISON/ (LIEUT. ¼ LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT) WHO AFTER ACTIVE SERVICE IN FRANCE/ DURING THE GREAT WAR, LOST HIS LIFE/ THROUGH THE TORPEDOING OF R.M.S.”LEINSTER”,/ OCT 10TH 1918./ UNTIL THE DAY BREAK/ AND THE SHADOWS FLEE.

Thomas attended the Magnus School in Newark and an interesting piece about his life and death can be found at:

http://www.ournottinghamshire.org.uk/page/the_magnus_grammar_school?path=0p31p50p455p549p623p

under the date of the tragedy.

He is also detailed on Nottinghamshire’s Roll of Honour under:

https://secure.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/RollOfHonour/People/Details/1843

Jean Howard, January 2024

Kelstern, Saint Faith Church, monument, Thomas Walter Harrison
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (South)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (South)
Kelstern, St Faith, Monument (South)

Elizabeth South, wife of Sir Francis South, died in 1604.

Her alabaster monument depicts her seated beneath an arch, facing front, her left foot resting on a skull and an hourglass in her left hand which rests on a table beside her.

Above her to the right a clock face is included in the spandrel of the arch The two putti which once stood either side of her are missing.

They may be seen on:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/vitrearum/albums/72157625091615985/

Jean Howard, January 2024

Kelstern, Saint Faith Church, monument, Elizabeth South, Francis South
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument

"On the north wall is a larger marble wall plaque to Charles Hall, d.1743 with an urn, putti and scrolls"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064107?section=official-list-entry 

DB 15 May 2022

Kettlethorpe Saint Peter & Saint Paul church, image, Charles Hall
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument

"In the north wall of the sanctuary is a square stone wall plaque to John Reeke, rector, d,1597"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064107?section=official-list-entry 

DB 15 May 2022

Kettlethorpe Saint Peter & Saint Paul church, image
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, Chancel, Monument

"Also in the sanctuary but on the south wall is an oval marble wall plaque to Rev. Hugh Palmer d.1799"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064107?section=official-list-entry 

DB 15 May 2022

Kettlethorpe Saint Peter & Saint Paul church, image
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments

A group of monuments on the north wall of the north aisle.

DB 15 May 2022

Kettlethorpe Saint Peter & Saint Paul church, image, monuments
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments

Topmost memorial in the north aisle. 

"In the north aisle is a plaque to the Cole family, late C18"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064107?section=official-list-entry 

DB 15 May 2022 

 

Kettlethorpe Saint Peter & Saint Paul church, image, cole
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments 
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments 
Kettlethorpe, St Peter & St Paul, North Aisle, Monuments 

A closer view of the memorial to "Gervase Cole, Gent" died 1792 and his wife Mary who died 1822.

DB 15 May 2022

Kettlethorpe Saint Peter & Saint Paul church, image
Kingerby, St Peter, monument
Kingerby, St Peter, monument
Kingerby, St Peter, monument

This early 14th century knight lies in the west corner of the south aisle. There are puppies by his pillow.

It is suggested that this is a memorial to a member of the Dykes family.

May 2016

Kingerby, St Peter church, monument, puppies
Kingerby, St Peter, monument
Kingerby, St Peter, monument
Kingerby, St Peter, monument
This knight in prayer also dates from the 14th century.
Kingerby, St Peter church, monument
Kirmond le Mire, St Martin, Monument
Kirmond le Mire, St Martin, Monument
Kirmond le Mire, St Martin, Monument

Monument transferred from the previous church building commemorating 5 young children of Edmund Turnor who was lord of the manor.

DB 10 October 2018

Kirmond Le Mire, Saint Martin, church, monument, Edmund Turnor
Kirton in Lindsey, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument
Kirton in Lindsey, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument
Kirton in Lindsey, St Andrew, South Aisle, Monument

"mutilated C13 crusader effigy in south aisle"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083025 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"in the church is the effigy of a cross-legged knight in chain mail, much dilapidated, with his feet upon a griffin"

DB 14 May 2019

Kirton in Lindsey, St Andrew, Church
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, Chancel, Memorial (Dixon)
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, Chancel, Memorial (Dixon)
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, Chancel, Memorial (Dixon)

"Near this place lyeth Dixon Colby M.D. Obt. 21 Nov. 1756 Ætat: fuæ 77.

And likewife ELIZABETH his wife 0bt. 21 Oct. 1739 Ætat: fuæ 59."

DB 17 October 2024

Kirton in Holland, Saints Peter & Paul Church
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, Chancel, Memorial (Ludlow)
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, Chancel, Memorial (Ludlow)
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, Chancel, Memorial (Ludlow)

"To the Glory of God and in loving Memory of William Ludlow M.A. for 46 years Vicar of this Parish who died on the Festival of the Epiphany 1889. Aged 86 years. Erected by his daughter"

DB 17 October 2024

Kirton in Holland, Saints Peter & Paul Church, William Ludlow
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, Chancel, Memorial (Watson)
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, Chancel, Memorial (Watson)
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, Chancel, Memorial (Watson)

"Near this Place are deposited the Remains of JANE. Wife of EDWD: WATSON Gent

She departed this Life on the 27th day of May A.D. 1806.

Ann: Ætat 34."

DB 17 October 2024

Kirton in Holland, Saints Peter & Paul Church
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, Chancel, Memorial (Watson)
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, Chancel, Memorial (Watson)
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, Chancel, Memorial (Watson)

"NEAR THIS PLACE ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF WILLIAM WATSON GENT; WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEBRUARY 1st 1805 IN THE 73rd YEAR OF HIS AGE

ALSO OF MRS MARY WATSON THE RELICT OF WILLIAM WATSON GENT; WITH WHOM SHE LIVED IN THE HAPPIEST UNION FORTY NINE YEARS AND HAVEING FOR A SHORT TIME SURVIVED HIM, SHE PASSED FROM THIS VALE OF MORTALITY DECEMBER 14th 1805 AGED 70 YEARS,"

DB 17 October 2024

Kirton in Holland, Saints Peter & Paul Church, WILLIAM WATSON
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, Nave, Memorial (Robinson)
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, Nave, Memorial (Robinson)
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, Nave, Memorial (Robinson)

Floor slab "IN MEMORY OF Matthew Robinson Vicar of this Parish OB. 13 June 1745 ÆT. 32."

DB 17 October 2024

Kirton in Holland, Saints Peter & Paul Church, Matthew Robinson
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, South Aisle, Memorial (Booth)
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, South Aisle, Memorial (Booth)
Kirton, SS Peter & Paul, South Aisle, Memorial (Booth)

"To the Glory of God and in memory of William Booth Smith Died Sept 3rd 1924 Aged 84 years And of Elizabeth Brewer his wife Died May 30th 1918 Aged 79 years"

DB 17 October 2024

Kirton in Holland, Saints Peter & Paul Church, William Booth
Knaith, St Mary, Monument
Knaith, St Mary, Monument
Knaith, St Mary, Monument

"Black and white marble monument on south wall with fluted pilasters, pinnacles, cusped pointed head and urn, of Henry Dalton, died 1821"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064050?section=official-list-entry 

DB 15 May 2022

Knaith, Saint Mary Church, image, Henry Dalton
Laceby, St Margaret, Nave, Memorial
Laceby, St Margaret, Nave, Memorial
Laceby, St Margaret, Nave, Memorial

Memorial to John & Katherine Holmes died 1788 & 1798.

DB 8 February 2020

Laceby, Saint Margaret, Church, memorial, John Holmes
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Chancel, Monument (Evre)
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Chancel, Monument (Evre)
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Chancel, Monument (Evre)

"NERE THIS PLACE LYETH THE BODY OF WILLIAM SALTMARSH OF STRUBBIE IN YE COUNTIE OF LINCOLNE ESQ WHOE IN YE 36 YEARE OF HIS AGE MARRIED BARBARA THE LADIE & RELICTE OF SR PETER EVRE OF WASHINGBROOKE ... " 

"Slate monument with pink, streaked marble surround to Barbara Evre of Washingbrooke, died 1657, with broken, segmental 1 pediment, cartouche painted gold, red and black"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063104?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2023

Langton by Wragby, Saint Giles Church, monument, Barbara Evre
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Chancel, Monument (Marwood)
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Chancel, Monument (Marwood)
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Chancel, Monument (Marwood)

" Here in hope of a Joyfull Resurrection lyeth ye bodie of ANN ye WIFE of HENRIE MARWOOD of Great Ayton in ye County of YORK ESQ ... " 

"Black and grey marble monument to Ann Marwood, died 1660, with upper cartouche with coat of arms, fruit and festoons"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063104?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2023

Langton by Wragby, Saint Giles Church, monument, Ann Marwood
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Nave, War Memorial
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Nave, War Memorial
Langton by Wragby, St Giles, Nave, War Memorial

Beneath the Langton window. 

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF LANGTON WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54002 

DB 10 September 2023

Langton by Wragby, Saint Giles Church, war memorial
Langworth, St Hugh, memorial plaque
Langworth, St Hugh, memorial plaque
Langworth, St Hugh, memorial plaque

Memorial plaque at the west end of the nave, possibly by Henry Wilson.

The inscription reads:"To the Glory of God and in Dear Memory of HALIBURTON FRANCIS DALLAS YORKE Lieutenant. Only Son of THOMAS DALLAS YORKE of Walmsgate. He died of Fever while serving his Regiment. Born xx 1875, died Dec 1899"

May 2016

Langworth, St Hugh church, interior decoration, Haliburton Francis Dallas Yorke, Thomas Dallas York
Lea, St Helen, monument
Lea, St Helen, monument
Lea, St Helen, monument

Monument in St Helen's church, Lea to Francis Foljambe Anderson who died in Grahamstown, South Africa on 15 September 1881 but was buried at sea on 8 October 1881 allegedly due to sharks following the ship.

Mark Acton, 2014

Lea, St Helen church, monument, Francis Foljambe Anderson
Lea, St Helen, monument
Lea, St Helen, monument
Lea, St Helen, monument

Monument in St Helen's church, Lea to Sir Charles John Anderson, Bart., Rector of Lea from 1795-1846, and his wife Frances Mary.

Mark Acton, 2014

Lea, St Helen church, monument, Charles John Anderson, Frances Mary Anderson
Lea, St Helen, monument
Lea, St Helen, monument
Lea, St Helen, monument

The tomb of Sir Ralph Trehampton dating from around 1300 in St Helen's church, Lea.

Mark Acton, 2014

Lea, St Helen church, monument, Sir Ralph Trehampton
Leadenham, St Swithin, Chancel, Brass
Leadenham, St Swithin, Chancel, Brass
Leadenham, St Swithin, Chancel, Brass

"In the chancel floor are 2 brasses to Elizabeth Beresford 1624"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147388 

DB 16 September 2018

Leadenham, Saint Swithin, Church, monument, brass, Elizabeth Beresford
Leadenham, St Swithin, Chancel, Monument
Leadenham, St Swithin, Chancel, Monument
Leadenham, St Swithin, Chancel, Monument

Monument to Christopher Beresford d.1716 and his eldest son William Beresford d. 1729.

DB 16 September 2018

Leadenham, Saint Swithin, Church, Christopher Beresford, William Beresford
Leadenham, St Swithin, South Aisle, Monument
Leadenham, St Swithin, South Aisle, Monument
Leadenham, St Swithin, South Aisle, Monument

"Monument to Lady Jane Sherard 1856 on the south wall in low relief of a lady weeping over an urn"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147388 

DB 16 September 2018

Leadenham, Saint Swithin, Church, monument, Lady Jane Sherard
Leasingham, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial Slab Charles Medlycot
Leasingham, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial Slab Charles Medlycot
Leasingham, St Andrew, Nave, Memorial Slab Charles Medlycot

Church Guide states :-

"marble memorial slab commemorating Charles Medlycot who was murdered by an absconding servant in 1737 on the eve of his wedding"

Partly hiddenby the organ. 

DB 16 July 2019

Leasingham, Saint Andrew, Church, Charles Medlycot
Legbourne, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Legbourne, All Saints, Chancel, Monument
Legbourne, All Saints, Chancel, Monument

A memorial to two unfortunate members of the Allenby family - one (Frederick - 1800-1815) drowned whilst bathing at Mablethorpe, the other (Edmund - 1797-1819) died whilst climbing Mount Etna. Both were sons of Hinman and Ann Allenby of Kenwick House.

Mark Acton, 2016

Legbourne, All Saints, Allenby, monument
Legsby, St Thomas, Nave, Memorial
Legsby, St Thomas, Nave, Memorial
Legsby, St Thomas, Nave, Memorial

Memorial to William Branston Gent. d. 1778 and his widow Leah d. 1806.

DB 8 May 2022

Legsby, Saint Thomas church, memorial, William Branston
Legsby, St Thomas, Nave, Memorial
Legsby, St Thomas, Nave, Memorial
Legsby, St Thomas, Nave, Memorial

William Adams was killed in a mining accident December 1903 at the Boulder Perseverance Gold Mine, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia.

https://https://www.wavmm.com/listing/william/ 

DB 8 May 2022

Legsby, Saint Thomas church, memorial, William Adams, Boulder Perseverance Gold Mine
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Lenton, Saint Peter Church, image, Mary Blomer
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial

Marble tablet with pediment to Francis Hetherington d.1768. 

DB 21 June 2023

Lenton, Saint Peter Church, image, Francis Hetherington
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Memorial

"A stone tablet eared and shouldered, with deaths head mask in circle on top, to Jane Chaworth d.1606"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253206?section=official-list-entry 

DB 21 June 2023

Lenton, Saint Peter Church, image, Jane Chaworth
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Tomb
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Tomb
Lenton, St Peter, Chancel, Tomb

In the chancel is a tomb to Bartholomew Armyne of Osgodby d.1605"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253206?section=official-list-entry 

The Church History states "From 1559 to 1638 the Patrons of the church were the Armyn family who lived in nearby Osgodby Manor (demolished in the 1960's), and whose magnificent monument, in the Chancel, is the most striking feature of the interior of the church"

DB 21 June 2023

Lenton, Saint Peter Church, image, tomb, Bartholomew Armyne
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Burghersh Tomb
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Burghersh Tomb
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Burghersh Tomb

Tomb of Sir Bartholomew Burghersh (died 1355) recessed in the north choir aisle wall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_de_Burghersh,_1st_Baron_Burghersh 

Depicted in full armour he was a knight who took part in the Battle of Crécy, 26 August 1346.

DB 20 December 2018

Lincoln Cathedral, Bartholomew Burghersh, tomb, Battle of Crécy
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Burghersh Tomb
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Burghersh Tomb
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Burghersh Tomb

Tomb of Sir Bartholomew Burghersh (died 1355) recessed in the north choir aisle wall.

At the feet of the effigy stand a pair of angels holding Bartholomew's soul in a napkin.

One of the offices to which Bartholomew had been appointed was that of King's Warrener and below the napkin is a rabbit warren with tiny rabbit heads peeping out.

DB 20 December 2018

Lincoln Cathedral, Bartholomew Burghersh, tomb, King's Warrener
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Fleming Chantry
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Fleming Chantry
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Fleming Chantry

Chantry chapel built into the north wall of the Angel Choir for Bishop Richard Fleming 1420-1431.

The tomb chest is of the "cadavar" type and is one of the earliest in England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_tomb 

DB 27 August 2018

Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Fleming chantry
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Gardiner Table Tombs
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Gardiner Table Tombs
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Gardiner Table Tombs

Table tombs of James Gardiner (49th Bishop of Lincoln 1694 - 1704) and his son also James Gardiner, Subdean of Lincoln d.1731.

DB 29 August 2019

Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Gardiner Table Tombs
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Memorial Tomb of William Butler
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Memorial Tomb of William Butler
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Memorial Tomb of William Butler

"William John Butler (1818-1894) was an English churchman, Dean of Lincoln from 1885 until his death.

He was previously Vicar of the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Wantage from 1847 to 1881, where he founded the Community of St Mary the Virgin"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_John_Butler 

DB 28 March 2019

Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, William John Butler
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Monument Christopher Wordsworth
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Monument Christopher Wordsworth
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Monument Christopher Wordsworth

Monument to Christopher Wordsworth, a nephew of the famous poet, who was Bishop of Lincoln 1869 to 1885. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wordsworth 

The design by Thomas Garner is supposed to have been influenced by the nearby Burghersh tombs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Garner 

Christopher Wordsworth is buried at Riseholme. 

DB 10 August 2019

Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Christopher Wordsworth
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Russell Chantry
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Russell Chantry
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Russell Chantry

Chantry chapel founded by John Russell, Bishop of Lincoln 1480-1494 and dedicated to Saint Blaise the patron saint of woolcombers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Russell_(bishop)

The only brasses, in the whole Cathedral, to escape destruction by Parliamentarian Troops during the English Civil War 1642-1651 are the two coats of arms on the side of John Russell's tomb.

On the left the Russell family arms and in the center his arms as Bishop surmounted by a mitre.

DB 4 October 2018

Lincoln Cathedral, Russell Chantry, Blaise Chapel
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Saint Hugh's Head Shrine
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Saint Hugh's Head Shrine
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Saint Hugh's Head Shrine

Prior to the Reformation Saint Hugh's head (which was separate from the body) was housed in a head reliquary kept under a movable cover on top of this stone shrine base.

Modern metal adornment 1986 to Saint Hugh's head shrine by David Poston the sculptor and jeweller - to mark the 800th anniversary of Saint Hugh's becoming Bishop of Lincoln.

Symbolically it stands as a sentinel holding aloft hugh spears to guard the once desecrated shrine.

It has the outline of a throne - the seat of a bishop.

It has the elegant curve of a swan's neck which iconographically identifies it with Saint Hugh.

DB 27 August 2018

Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Saint Hugh, Head Shrine
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Visceral Tomb of Queen Eleanor
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Visceral Tomb of Queen Eleanor
Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Visceral Tomb of Queen Eleanor

Eleanor of Castile (1241-1290), wife of Edward I, died at Harby near Lincoln.

Eleanor's viscera were buried in Lincoln Cathedral.

The rest of her body was taken down to London in stages and Edward I ordered a stone cross to be erected at each stopping-place on the journey to London, ending at Charing Cross.

The "Eleanor crosses" stood at Lincoln, Grantham, Stamford, Geddington, Hardingstone near Northampton, Stony Stratford, Woburn, Dunstable, St Albans, Waltham, Westcheap, and Charing 

Her heart was buried in the Dominican priory at Blackfriars in London and her body in Westminster Abbey.

Lincoln tomb's original stone chest survives; its effigy was destroyed in the 17th century and has been replaced with a 19th-century copy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Castile  

DB 13 September 2018

Lincoln Cathedral, Angel Choir, Visceral Tomb, Eleanor of Castile, Queen, Edward I
Lincoln Cathedral, Cloisters, The Slype, Memorial
Lincoln Cathedral, Cloisters, The Slype, Memorial
Lincoln Cathedral, Cloisters, The Slype, Memorial

Memorial plaque on the wall of the slype above a Penrose ledger stone.

"Elizabeth Penrose (3 August 1780 - 24 January 1837), known by her pseudonym Mrs Markham, was an English writer ...

The best known of her books was A History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the End of the Reign of George III (1823), which went through numerous editions. In 1828, she published a History of France. Both these works enjoyed a wide popularity in America as well as in England"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Markham 

DB 23 August 2022

Lincoln Cathedral, Slype, Elizabeth Penrose, Mrs Markham
Lincoln Cathedral, Narthex, Brass
Lincoln Cathedral, Narthex, Brass
Lincoln Cathedral, Narthex, Brass

Brass of Bishop William Smith (1494-1513).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smyth 

Reproduction given to the Cathedral by the fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford, because the Bishop was co-founder of their college.

With two small exceptions all the Cathedral's original brasses were destroyed by Parliamentarian Troops during the English Civil War 1642-1651.

DB 14 December 2018

Lincoln Cathedral, Narthex, Brass, Bishop Smith, Brasenose College Oxford, Smyth
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Burial Slab
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Burial Slab
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Burial Slab

Tournai marble burial slab on the north side of the nave.

Identified in C19 as belonging to Remigius the 1st Bishop of Lincoln 1072-1092 hence the surrounding  inscription.

It is now believed on stylistic grounds to belong to Alexander "the Magnificent" 3rd  Bishop of Lincoln 1123-1148.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Lincoln 

The slab depicts a carved Tree of Jesse.

DB 11 October 2018

Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Bishop Alexander, Tomb Slab, Tree of Jesse
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Memorial Tomb Bishop John Kaye
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Memorial Tomb Bishop John Kaye
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Memorial Tomb Bishop John Kaye

Memorial Tomb of Bishop John Kaye 1827-1853 who is buried in the churchyard at Riseholme.

Carra marble effigy by Richard Westmacott (the younger) 1857.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Westmacott_(the_younger)

John Kaye was the first bishop, since the middle ages, to live near Lincoln and a Palace was built for him at Riseholme - his predecessors had mostly lived at Buckden half way towards London.

DB 10 January 2019

Lincoln Cathedral, Bishop John Kaye, Richard Westmacott, Carra marble
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Monument
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Monument
Lincoln Cathedral, Nave, Monument

Monument at the west end of the nave to Elizabeth Hatton d.1724 and her son William Gylby d.1744.

DB 21 December 2019

Lincoln Cathedral, Elizabeth Hatton, William Gylby
Lincoln Cathedral, South Choir Aisle, Harry Crookshank
Lincoln Cathedral, South Choir Aisle, Harry Crookshank
Lincoln Cathedral, South Choir Aisle, Harry Crookshank

"Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, CH, PC (27 May 1893 - 17 October 1961), was a British Conservative politician.

He was Minister of Health between 1951 and 1952 and Leader of the House of Commons between 1951 and 1955 ...

In the First World War, he joined the Hampshire Regiment and served as a captain in the Grenadier Guards. On one occasion he was buried alive by an explosion for twenty minutes, and on another in 1916 he was castrated by shrapnel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Crookshank 

DB 7 August 2020

Lincoln Cathedral, Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank
Lincoln Cathedral, South Transept, Dean Fuller
Lincoln Cathedral, South Transept, Dean Fuller
Lincoln Cathedral, South Transept, Dean Fuller

Samuel Fuller Dean of Lincoln 1695 - 1700.

Received his appointment, according to Kennet, through the interest of the Lay Lords who loved him for his hospitality and wit.

Face used by Antonio Verrio as the model for Bacchus astride of a barrel.

DB 13 May 2019

Lincoln Cathedral, Samuel Fuller,Antonio Verrio
Lincoln Cathedral, South Transept, Edward King
Lincoln Cathedral, South Transept, Edward King
Lincoln Cathedral, South Transept, Edward King

Bronze statue 1913 by William Blake Richmond with lettering by Eric Gill.

The statue shows the bishop in the act of confirmation and was originally intended to stand in the open. 

DB 7 August 2020

Lincoln Cathedral, Edward King, Statue, William Blake Richmond, Eric Gill
Lincoln Cathedral, Southeast Transept, Robert 
Grosseteste
Lincoln Cathedral, Southeast Transept, Robert  Grosseteste
Lincoln Cathedral, Southeast Transept, Robert  Grosseteste

Several bishops of Lincoln are buried in the southeast transept including Robert Grosseteste 1235-1253 the first Chancellor of Oxford University.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Grosseteste 

His tomb is marked by a raised ledger stone, designed by W.H.Randoll Blacking, and placed here in 1953. 

DB 18 October 2018

Lincoln Cathedral, Bishop Robert Grosseteste, W.H.Randoll Blacking, Chancellor Oxford University
Lincoln Cathedral, St Hugh's Choir, Katherine Swynford
Lincoln Cathedral, St Hugh's Choir, Katherine Swynford
Lincoln Cathedral, St Hugh's Choir, Katherine Swynford

On the south side of the sanctuary is the tomb of  Katherine Swynford.

"Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster (born Katherine de Roet, c. 1350 - 10 May 1403), also spelled Katharine or Catherine, was the third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, a son of King Edward III.

She had been the Duke's lover for many years before their marriage.

The couple's children, born before the marriage, were later legitimated during the reign of the Duke's nephew, Richard II"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Swynford 

DB 4 October 2018

Lincoln Cathedral, Saint Hugh's Choir, Katherine Swynford
Lincoln, All Saints, Bracebridge, Memorial Charles Ellison
Lincoln, All Saints, Bracebridge, Memorial Charles Ellison
Lincoln, All Saints, Bracebridge, Memorial Charles Ellison

A member of the Ellison family of Boultham Hall.

"An accomplished rose grower. He laid out 4 acres of garden at Bracebridge with thousands of roses. 

In 1905 He crossed a Cox's Orange Pippin to create Ellison's Orange"

http://www.itsaboutlincoln.co.uk/ellison.html 

"Ellison's Orange is a connoisseur's mid-season eating apple, described as 'once tasted, never forgotten' on account of its rich flavour and unique aniseed undertones.

It's an Edwardian variety, dating back to 1904 when it was raised by Rev Charles Ellison of Bracebridge Manse, Lincoln and Mr Albert Wipf, head gardener to Rev Ellison's brother-in-law, Joseph Shuttleworth, at Hartsholme Hall in nearby Skellingthorpe.

Charles Ellison was a renowned pomologist with more than 1,500 fruit trees in his gardens ...

Ellison's Orange achieved an RHS Award of Merit in 1911 and RHS First Class Certificate in 1917"

https://www.waterfurlonggardens.com/single-post/2018/09/17/Our-Apple-for-September-Ellisons-Orange

DB 27 July 2019

Lincoln, Bracebridge, All Saints, Church
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial Anne Dawson
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial Anne Dawson
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial Anne Dawson

"IN MEMORY OF MRS ANNE DAWSON RELICT OF MR WILLIAM DAWSON LATE OF THIS CITY AND DAUGHTER OF JOHN ATKINSON LATE OF BUSLINGTHORP HALL IN THIS COUN'Y GENT: SHE BECAME IMMORTAL JAN'Y 10, 1739 IN THE 63 YEAR OF HER AGE"

DB 12 April 2018

Lincoln, Saint Benedict, Church, Anne Dawson
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial Brass John & Marie Becke
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial Brass John & Marie Becke
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial Brass John & Marie Becke

Memorial brass " ... JOHN BECKE CITIZEN AND ALDERMAN AND TWICE MAYOR OF THIS CITIE OF LINCOLNE AND MARIE HIS WIFE WHO HAD BY HER ISSUE 10 CHILDREN ... DEPARTED THE 9 OF DECEMBER 1617"

DB 31 May 2018

Lincoln, Saint Benedict, Church, Brass John & Marie Becke, Mayor
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial William Nicholson
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial William Nicholson
Lincoln, St Benedict, Memorial William Nicholson

Memorial to the noted Lincoln architect William Adams Nicholson (1803-1853) who was a founding member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. 

"Possibly Nicholson's most important contribution was in the design of Workhouses.

His pioneering Southwell Workhouse (1824) was important forerunner of the radially planned workhouses of the New Poor Law ...

As well as working in the Gothic revival style of architecture, Nicholson could also work very effectively in classical styles.

He designed the Mansfield Town Hall in a Grecian style portico with Doric columns.

More striking is the Corn Exchange of 1847 in the Cornhill Lincoln. Here he has a projecting portico with Corinthian columns at Piano nobile level ... "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams_Nicholson  

DB 20 October 2018

Lincoln, Saint Benedict, Church, William Adams Nicholson