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Where Sited: St Mary Magdalen's Church, Taunton, Somerset. The monument is wall mounted on the north wall of the north aisle.

The Commemorated:
Robert Graye (ob. 1635), philanthropist. He established almshouse in the town in benefit of ten poor women and six poor men 'together with a man of honest conversation to read prayers in the almshouse chapel twice every day and to teach ten poor children to read and to write'. These almshouses are still in use today.

The Monument Life sized figure flanked by columns which carry and segmental pediment without a base.

The Illustrations: From a photograph by John Crook and reproduced here with his kind permission. This photograph is used on the front of the new Church Monuments Society leaflet and poster.