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 Hingham - St Andrew

Thomas, Lord Morley (ob 1435 However made later as heraldry shows arms of his son Robert and the latter's wife who married in 1442. Red sandstone. Originally brasses with canopy on lid. Note the kneeling figures at the back wall; figure of  Christ seated flanked by kneeling figures of Lord Morley and his wife; and the Annunciation at the top of  the buttresses.

Also Abraham Lincoln (US President) memorial with bust erected 1919 because some of his ancestors came from here.

 


 

 


 

Hunstanton - St Mary

Cross Slab - Barnack product (top left)
Sir Henry Le Stange (ob 1485)
The tomb chest was also intended to serve as an Easter Sepulchre and, according to Sir Henry's will, modelled on the Morley monument at Hingham. TC Has Purbeck Marble top.
(left)
Sir Edmund Grene & Agnes (c 1490)
brass, figures 25" long. W end, near S door.
(top right)
Sir Roger Strange (ob 1506) 3' long brass on tomb chest. Canopy. N aisle E, moved in 20th C from chancel) (right)


 

 

King's Lynn
St Nicholas Chapel

Richard Clarck (ob 1602) & Mathew Clarck (ob 1623) Tab with small kneeling figures: Richard & Wife Joan to LHS and Mathew & Wife Sarah to RHS with two sons & five daughters.
Sir Thomas Greene (ob 1675) & Wife Susannah Barker
Two painted near frontal kneeling figures with four sons and five daughters below facing each other across a prayer desk with skull over. Attrib: Thomas Cartwright I
Thomas Snelling (ob 1623) & Margaret
(left) Three children & a baby below the main figures
Sir Benjamin Keene (ob 1758)
(right) Ambassador to Spain. Harbour scene and portrait medllion on bowl. Probably by Robert Adams (1762)
Elizabeth Hendry (ob 1764)
oval catouche with cherubs' heads and skull
Rebecca Cooper & Son (drowned 1838)
shipwreck depicted in low relief by James Thompson
Robinson Cruso (ob 1773 age 10) ledger stone

 


Sir Clement Spelman (ob 1607) & Wife (above and below) Alabaster. Note to the left and right of the inscription a kneeling child and a baby in a crib.

Narborough - All Saints

John Eyer (ob 1561) & Wife (above left) chancel
John Hotblack JP (ob 1895),
his son George Snelling Hotblack  (ob 1920) & his wife Emily Rosa (ob 1940) who 'is interred in this church yard)
(above centre left)
John Cary Marriott (ob 1815)
'2nd son of ...  Rector of Broadway Dorsetshire'.
(above centre right)
Below these two latter tablets are two 18th C. Copper reliefs: Descent from the Cross (Italian) and Adoration of the Shepherds (French)

                                                           Other Monuments Not Illustrated
Henry Spelman (ob 1496) & Wife 27" brass, chancel floor
John Spelman (ob 1545)
2' figure, chancel floor
Sir John Spelman (ob 1545) & Wife kneeling figures with panel of resurrection above, chancel
Also palimpsest of early 15th C brass of 2 ladies - 22" figure, chancel floor
Sir John Spelman (ob 1662) standing wall monument, inscription
Clement Spelman (ob 1679)
Standing alabaster figure in robes of the Recorder of Nottingham. Possibly by Sir William Wilson
Andrew Fountaine (ob 1706)
Cartouche attrib. to William Woodman the Elder.

 



 

Dame Agatha of Narburgh (ob 1293) (above and above left ) Probable identification of the demi-effigy.



 

Roughham - St Mary

Sir William Yelverton (ob 1472) & Wife 26" brass. By Lectern (left)
Thomas Keppel North (ob1919) Headstone with relief of twin engined biplane. Inscription records that he, a superintendent at Vickers, designed the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic. Churchyard, S of tower) ( right)

 

Other Monuments Not Illustrated

Roger North (ob 1734) Gibbsian pedimented marble tablet with urn. Chancel.
Charles North (ob 1906) coloured marble wall monument in 17th C style. Chancel
Other monuments to the North Family

William Yelverton & Wife (c 1510)
Brass
John & Roger Yelverton (ob 1505)
Brass. Babies in swaddling clothes under ogee canopy. 9" figures
William Yelverton (ob 1586), Two Wives  & Two separate groups of children.
2' figures. Chancel south.


 

 

South Acre - St George

Knight stone c 1300 (left)
Cross slabs - Barnack products
(top left and top right upper)

Fragment of wooden effigy of a knight, in chancel tomb recess but not in situ. 14th C (top right lower)

Other Monuments Not Illustrated

Sir John Harsyck (ob 1384) & Katherine Brass. N chancel aisle 5' long,  hand holding
Sir Roger Harsyck (ob 1454)
Brass. In pieces and not exhibited
Thomas Leman (ob 1534)
Brass.  Priest, kneeling, missing scroll, 15". Between chancel stalls.
Sir Edward Barkham (ob 1634) & Wife
Standing alabaster. On TC, 3 kneeling daughters and 2 kneeling sons separated by charnel panel. 2 recumbent effigies. He was Lord Mayor of London and wears his robes over his armour. Skulls at heads and feet. Back wall has woman holding wreath , skeleton in shroud and arms. Attrib. (Adam White) to John & Mattthias Christmas.
 

 

 



 


 

Stow Bardolf - Holy Trinity
The Hare Chapel 

Tablet (1597) (above left)
Tablet (1619) (above right) As these are older than the chapel, which was built of brick against the north side of the church  in 1624, they are presumably from the body of the church.
Sir Ralph Hare (ob 1623)
of alabaster: tomb chest with upper structure with two flanking columns and obelisks on top. This is shown left, the second illustration. His actual tomb is shown above this: simple tomb chest with arms on the longer aspect and an inscription on the shorter.
(left)
Sir Thomas Hare (ob 1693) White marble. A semi-reclining figure wearing a wig, yet Roman armour. On tomb chest with thickly fluted cornice. No backing. Attributed to Grinling Gibbons
(left & below)
Susanna Hare (ob 1741) Semi-reclining figure in loose robes against a classical reredos with two cherubs' heads in the clouds. Of white and grey marble. By Peter Scheemakers.(left & below)
Sarah Hare (ob 1744) She died age eighteen. In her will of August 10th 1743, she requested '...I desire my face and hands made in wax with a piece of crimson satin thrown like a garment in a picture hair upon my head and put in a case of mahogany with a glass before and fix'd up so near the place were my corps lyes as it can be with my name and time of Death put upon the case in a manner most desirable if I do not execute this in my life I desire it may be done after my Death.' This was carried out to the letter and this rather horrifying life like effigy can still be seen in what appears to be a cupboard a demi-effigy wearing clothes of the period. It is likely that the face and hands were made from impressions taken either in life or shortly after death. The monument was restored in 1984 by Miss Jean Frazer (formerly of Madam Tussauds), who, of course, restored the wax, and by Mrs Judith Dore (formerly Senior Conservation Officer to the Victoria and Albert Museum) who restored the textiles. (right top and below closed cabinet; and below)
Mary Hare (ob 1801) Standing figure of Hope with anchor leaning on an urn against which rests an upturned torch. All of white marble against a gray obelisk. By McDaniel.
(right)
Sir Thomas Hare (ob 1834) Tablet of white marble with figures of Faith, Hope and Charity, with the inscription between them.
(right)

 





Tittleshall - St Mary

Bridget Coke (née Paston) (ob 1598) (left) Alabaster
Sir Edward Coke (ob 1634), Lord Chief Justice
The great champion of Parliamentary rights.
(right) Black and white marble; four Virtues on top. Attrib: Nicholas Stone but probably by assistant John Hargrave.
Robert Coke (ob 1679)
Black and white marble. Tomb chest but no effigy. Attrib: Abraham Storey
Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (ob 1759)
with busts of Earl and Countess. Monument by Charles Atkinson but busts by Roubiliac.
Mrs Jane Coke (ob 1800)
group in relief of the lady, putto and an angel. By Joseph Nollekens (1805)

 

 

With many thankd to Miss Sally Badham FSA, founder-member of the Church Monuments Society, and to Dr & Mrs D. Kelsall for providing many of the photographs in this section