STAFFORDSHIRE

Eccleshall  Ilam  Rolleston  Standon  Stone
Eccleshall - Holy Trinity
Left & Above Bishop Bowstead (1843) Right & Above
Bishop Overton (1609)
Tomb chest with low relief figures

Ilma - Holy Cross
Top Right: J Watts Russell by Laurence Macdonald 1863. Other photographs: Robert Meverell  (1626) & Wife Alabaster. Whole monument and detail.
Rolleston - St Mary
Bishop Sherburne of Chichester (1536)
The effigy is let into a wall niche like a coffin but stone block hides the middle of the figure. This block is carved with early Reanaisance decoration.
Incised Sabs
Left & Above: Sir John Rolleaton & Margaret (1485) Note the curious headdress. Recut.
Right: Edward Rolston, Rector (1615)
Left: Sir Edward Moseley (1638)
Above & Right Details of monument to Thomas Caldwell (1555), Wife & Children Made c. 1600

Standon - All Saints
Nicholas Hyde (1526) Another example of this type

  Stone
St Michael
Thomas Crompton (1619), wife Ethelred, 4 sons, 2 daughters Admiral St Vincent (1823) by Chantrey
Two Elizabethan of Jacobean effigies in the church yard. Members of the Crompton family
Immaculate Conception & St Dominic
Archbishop Ullathorpe (1889) by J S Hanson

With thanks to Jean McCreanor for providing the photographs in this section

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