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By All Saints' Church INDEXED TRANSCRIPTIONS OF THE MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS AT ALL SAINTS CHURCH WESTON Monuments in All Saints Church Taken from Quinquennial Inspection Report 10/04/2003 Chancel, South face: Marble plaque to Francis Arthur Bromley 1951 Brass – Agnes Fraser 1895 Marble on slate – John Shute Duncan 1878 by Reeves of Bath David Macie 1737 Chancel, North face: Marble – Thomas Leir 1843 Brass – William Carmichael 1765 Marble – Reverend William Cheyne 1767 South Transept: Marble on slate – John Arthur and Charles Owen 1828 Bust of Elizabethan with his right hand on a skull and it says “near this lieth body of Arthur Sherstone, late Alderman and Mayor of the City of Bath who died in 1641 Marble – Emma Gertrude Parry 1842 South Transept window is in memory of Sydney Newcombe-quick accidentally killed 1898 Marble tablet recording a legacy of 300L at 3% consolidated left by the Right Honourable Lady Mary Stanley – undated Marble – William Mesurier 1785 Marble – Lieutenant Colonel Flemming Martin, Chief Engineer, Bengal Establishment, East India Company 1799 Marble – Thomas Peterson 1803 (Reeves is the sculptor to a number of the monuments but this one is by Greenway of Bristol) Marble on slate – Daniel Watson-Steigenberger 1825 South Nave: Marble – Eleonor Matilda Parry 1840 Marble – Right Honourable James Lord Somerville 1795 Marble – Anne Whichnoure 1786 Marble – Joseph Spry 1797 Brass – Stanley Albert Waters 1965 Brass – William Carr 1910 Marble on slate – Charles Henry Parry 1872 (by another sculptor Hulbert of Bath) Marble – Caroline Crawford 1848 Marble – George Cheyne 1743 Marble – Mary Cunliffe Marble – Clement Bush 1882 Brass – presumably by the window – Susanna Jane Carr 1934 Marble – George Cox 1873 Marble, highly decorated – Charlotte Luther 1776 Lucinda Jane Jekyll 1812 Mary Ann Bigge 1805 (These are all marble on slate, some are by King and some by Reeves of Bath) Harriet Alexander 1819 Over the door, in marble – George Middleton 1748 Joannis Clarke MDCCCV Marble on slate – Charlotte Eleonor Bigge Caroline Whitehead 1843 Jane Domager 1886 Marble – Thomas Charles Bigge 1794 Gallery - Mrs Parry 1792 Clotworthy Gowan 1763 (another Bengal military man) Susanna Francis Dennis Palmer 1815 West Nave: Marble on slate – Mary Eeles 1810 Marble by King – Peter Gaskill 1785 Mrs Ann Nicholas 1816 Charlotte Sherstone 1804 Francis Gwynne 1815 In the centre of the west wall at the back in the gallery – Millicent Scudamore 1692 Other side of the gallery – marble – Charlotte Wicker 1795 Marble – Mrs Mary Waters 1786 Marble – Peter Daly 1803 Jane Val Travers 1794 Mrs Mary Kingstone 1783 Downstairs on same wall – Captain John Moore Adolphous Lucas 1833 (another Bengal man) Marble one at top – unable to read Marble – Jacobus Berkley 1750 Ferdinand Wilhelm Becker 1825 Mrs Anne Newcombe 1833 Gallery – Marble on slate – John Nicholas 1842 Under the stairs – Marble on slate – Charles Worthington 1848 Also on this wall is a list of the incumbents going back to 1297 with a more recent oak one containing the names of Eric Normington and Timothy Watson Marble – William Frederick DeLavaud 1842 Arthur Dawson 1862 Large marble, highly decorated – William Hall 1753 Two marble on slate – Mary Wilson 1836, one above it unable to read North Nave: Under the Gallery – Marble – Reverend John Ditcher 1735 Marble – Charles Crook 1843 Gallery – Marble – Francis Fysher 1768 Brass – Thomas Norman 1929 Marble – Catherine, Countess of Dundonald 1779 Octavia Willoughby 1807 Marble – Edwin Scott Fletcher 1892 Marble – Mary Evans 1866 Marble – Catherine Evans 1793 Large ornate marble – General Joseph Smith 1790 Marble – Major John Home 1860 Brass – Charles Batsford 1860 Marble – Charles Batsford 1857 Large marble – Sidney Arabella Cotton 1781 Higher up – another marble on slate – unable to read Under the window – brass – Rebecca Power 1894 Marble on slate – Miss Francis Curtsi 1852 Marble – Admiral Sir Henry William Bayntun 1830 Large marble – William Oliver born at Ludgvan in Cornwall 1695 (This is dated 1760 something) Charles Henry Franklin 1768 North Transept: West Wall – Marble – Lady Mary Stanley 1795 John Wittington 1796 North Face – Reverend John Macie Leir 1849 Under the window – brass – William Ivor Carr 1903 Mrs Wesbury Hocker 1802 Brass on marble – Richard Hayes Robinson 1892 Marble – John Bower Jodrell 1796 Marble on slate – Jane Elizabeth Leir 1871 Dame Margaret Pearson 1816 East Wall – Marble – John Harrington 1699 Marble – Reverend Edward Wilkins 1880 Marble – Charlotte Roberts 1848 Mary Shepherd 1737 On the face of the gallery is a wonderfully designed coat of arms, gift of J Jones, Carver of this parish. Graves numbered 1 – 50 are on the west side of the path leading from Church Road to the Vicarage. 51 – 87 are in the area from the vicarage to the car park in Lynfield Park, broadly speaking on the left hand side of the path leading from the vicarage to the car park gate, but note that the course of the path has varied over the years. 88 – 271 are to the north of a rough path leading from the car park gate to Church Road. 272 – 375 are to the east of the path leading from the aforementioned exit opposite Church Road coming back downhill towards the main entrance and the path from Church Road to the vicarage. 376 – 409 are in the area in the vicinity of the two main entrances to the Church. 410 – 536 are spread around the area in closer proximity to the church, mainly the north and east, and enclosed by the various paths previously mentioned, from the vicarage to the car park gate, and from Church Road to the main entrance. The tablets within the Church are listed separately. This transcription was carried out in 1985 and 1986 by the Bath Branch of Bristol & Avon Family History Society. It later came to light that a previous transcription was deposited at Somerset Record Office, Taunton. Where an entry appears in the appendix it was copied from the earlier transcription and inserted into inscriptions which are now only partially legible. INDEX A’COURT - 221 ...................................................................................................................................................... 34 ADAMS - 10 ........................................................................................................................................................... 18 AFFLECK - 454 ....................................................................................................................................................... 51 AHMUTY - 261 ...................................................................................................................................................... 37 ANDREWS - 210 .................................................................................................................................................... 33 ANDREWS - 296 .................................................................................................................................................... 39 ANGELL - 166 ........................................................................................................................................................ 30 ANGELL - 421 ........................................................................................................................................................ 48 ANTHONEY - 292 ................................................................................................................................................... 39 APTHORP - 207 ..................................................................................................................................................... 33 ARCHER - 125 ........................................................................................................................................................ 59 ASHMORE - 43 ...................................................................................................................................................... 21 ATHERFOLD - 317 .................................................................................................................................................. 41 ATKINSON - 453A .................................................................................................................................................. 51 ATTWOOD - 510.................................................................................................................................................... 55 ATWOOD - 301 ..................................................................................................................................................... 40 BAILEY - 428 .......................................................................................................................................................... 48 BAKER - 130 .......................................................................................................................................................... 60 BAKER - 395 .......................................................................................................................................................... 62 BALLARD - 122 ...................................................................................................................................................... 26 BANDALL - 177 ...................................................................................................................................................... 31 BARKER - 487 .......................................................................................................................................................
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