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In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious In Search Of Gravestones Old And Curious W.T. (William Thomas) Vincent The Project Gutenberg EBook of In Search Of Gravestones Old And Curious by W.T. (William Thomas) Vincent This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: In Search Of Gravestones Old And Curious Author: W.T. (William Thomas) Vincent Release Date: July 21, 2004 [EBook #12978] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GRAVESTONES *** Produced by Julie Barkley, Sandra Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. SEARCH OF GRAVESTONES OLD AND CURIOUS. With One Hundred and Two Illustrations BY W. T. VINCENT, PRESIDENT OF THE WOOLWICH DISTRICT ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY; AUTHOR OF "THE RECORDS OF THE WOOLWICH DISTRICT," ETC., ETC. LONDON: Livros Grátis http://www.livrosgratis.com.br Milhares de livros grátis para download. MITCHELL & HUGHES, 140, WARDOUR STREET. 1896. IN SEARCH OF GRAVESTONES OLD AND CURIOUS. _Frontispiece_. [Illustration: AN EARLY SAMPLE AT HIGHAM.] (Page 11.) CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. OLD GRAVESTONES 1 II. THE EVOLUTION OF GRAVESTONES 9 III. ARTISTIC GRAVESTONES 20 IV. PROFESSIONAL GRAVESTONES 31 V. A TYPICAL TRAMP IN KENT 35 VI. MORE TYPICAL TRAMPS 43 VII. EARLIER GRAVESTONES 49 VIII. REFORM AMONG THE GRAVESTONES 57 IX. PRESERVING THE GRAVESTONES 62 X. OLD GRAVESTONES IN IRELAND 78 XI. OLD GRAVESTONES IN SCOTLAND 84 XII. OLD GRAVESTONES ABROAD 91 XIII. VERY OLD GRAVESTONES 97 XIV. THE REGULATION OF GRAVESTONES 105 INDEX 111 TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL STANHOPE, F.S.A., LORD LIEUTENANT OF KENT, PRESIDENT OF THE KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, ETC., THIS COLLECTION OF OLD AND CURIOUS GRAVESTONES IS BY SPECIAL PERMISSION RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. ILLUSTRATIONS OF GRAVESTONES. AN EARLY EXAMPLE AT HIGHAM 1 AND 2, NEWHAVEN 3, WIDCOMBE; 4, NEWHAVEN; 5, LEWES 6, PLUMSTEAD; 7 AND 8, DARTFORD 9, FRANKFORT; 10, EAST WICKHAM 11, RIDLEY; 12, HOO 13, ERITH; 14, HIGH HALSTOW 15, FRINDSBURY; 16, HIGHAM 17, SHORNE AND CHALK 18, MEOPHAM; 19, STANSTEAD; 20, OLD ROMNEY 21, CRAYFORD; 22, SHOREHAM 23, LEWISHAM; 24, HORNSEY 25, TEDDINGTON; 26, FINCHLEY; 27, FARNBOROUGH 28, CHISELHURST; 29, HARTLEY 30, WEST WICKHAM; 31, HORNSEY 32, HORTON KIRBY; 33, CLIFFE 34, DARENTH; 35, KINGSDOWN 36, FAWKHAM; 37, SWANSCOMBE 38, ASHFORD; 39, COOLING 40, HENDON; 41, EAST WICKHAM 42, SNARGATE; 43, EAST HAM 44, WILMINGTON; 45, WANSTEAD; 46, SOUTHFLEET; 47, WILMINGTON 48, LEWISHAM; 49, BUNHILL FIELDS 50, WOOLWICH; 51, LONGFIELD 52, LYDD; 53, BERMONDSEY 54, RICHMOND; 55, RIPLEY 56, COBHAM; 57, BARNES 58, FRINDSBURY; 59, SUTTON AT HONE 60, BROMLEY; 61, BECKENHAM 62, GREEENFORD; 63, WEST HAM 64, LEE; 65, ORPINGTON 66, ST. MARY CRAY; 67, ST. PAUL'S CRAY 68, FOOT'S CRAY; 69, BEXLEY 70, BARKING; 71, WOOLWICH 72, DEPTFORD; 73, WEST HAM 74, AND 75, WANSTEAD 76, WALTHAMSTOW; 77, BROXBOURNE 78, STAPLEFORD TAWNEY; 79, SHORNE 80, BETHNAL GREEN; 81, PLUMSTEAD 82, CHESHUNT; 83, HATFIELD 84, NORTHOLT; 85, TWICKENHAM 86, HIGH BARNET; 87, KINGSTON-ON-THAMES 88, SWORDS 89, DROGHEDA 90, BANGOR; 91, MUCKROSS AND QUEENSTOWN 92, INVERNESS; 93, BRAEMAR 94, STIRLING 95, BLAIRGOWRIE 96, LAUFEN 97, NEUHAUSEN 98, HEIDELBERG; 99, LUCERNE 100, THE BRESSAY STONE; 101, LUNNASTING AND KILBAR STONES PREFACE. I am a Gravestone Rambler, and I beg you to bear me company. This Book is not a Sermon. It is a lure to decoy other Ramblers, and the bait is something to ramble for. It also provides a fresh object for study. Old-lore is an evergreen tree with many branches. This is a young shoot. It is part of an old theme, but is itself new. Books about Tombs there are many, and volumes of Epitaphs by the hundred. But of the Common Gravestones--the quaint and curious, often grotesque, headstones of the churchyard--there is no record. These gravestones belong to the past, and are hastening to decay. In one or two centuries none will survive unless they be in Museums. To preserve the counterfeit presentment of some which remain seems a duty. Many may share the quest, but no one has yet come out to start. Let your servant shew the way. I begin my book as I began my Rambles, and pursue as I have pursued. WILLIAM THOMAS VINCENT. [Illustration: FIG. 1. NEWHAVEN.] [Illustration: FIG. 2. NEWHAVEN.] IN SEARCH OF GRAVESTONES OLD AND CURIOUS. CHAPTER I. OLD GRAVESTONES. I was sauntering about the churchyard at Newhaven in Sussex, reading the inscriptions on the tombs, when my eyes fell upon a headstone somewhat elaborately carved. Although aged, it was in good preservation, and without much trouble I succeeded in deciphering all the details and sketching the subject in my note-book. It is represented in Fig. 1. FIG. 1--AT NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. The inscription below the design reads as follows: "Here lyeth the remains of Andrew Brown, who departed this life the 14th day of January 1768, aged 66 years. Also of Mary his wife, who departed this life the 3d day of July 1802, aged 88 years." This was the first time I had been struck by an allegorical gravestone of a pronounced character. The subject scarcely needs to be interpreted, being obviously intended to illustrate the well-known passage in the Burial Service: "For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised ... then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in Victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" The reference in another ritual to the Lord of Life trampling the King of Terrors beneath his feet seems also to be indicated, and it will be noticed that the artist has employed a rather emphatic smile to pourtray triumph. It was but natural to suppose that this work was the production of some local genius of the period, and I searched for other evidences of his skill. Not far away I found the next design, very nearly of the same date. FIG. 2.--AT NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. The words below were: "To the memory of Thomas, the son of Thomas and Ann Alderton, who departed this life the 10th day of April 1767, in the 13th year of his age." The same artist almost of a certainty produced both of these figurative tombstones. The handicraft is similar, the idea in each is equally daring and grotesque, and the phraseology of the inscriptions is nearly identical. I thought both conceptions original and native to the place, but I do not think so now. In point of taste, the first, which is really second in order of date, is perhaps less questionable than the other. The hope of a joyful resurrection, however rudely displayed, may bring comfort to wounded hearts; but it is difficult to conceive the feelings of bereaved parents who could sanction the representation of a beloved boy, cut off in the brightest hour of life, coffined and skeletoned in the grave! [Illustration: FIG. 3. WIDCOMBE.] [Illustration: FIG. 4. NEWHAVEN.] [Illustration: FIG. 5. LEWES.] Above the coffin on Alderton's headstone is an ornament, apparently palms. It is not unusual to find such meaningless, or apparently meaningless, designs employed to fill in otherwise blank spaces, though symbols of death, eternity, and the future state are in plentiful command for such purposes. Something like this same ornament may be found on a very old flat stone in the churchyard of Widcombe, near Bath. It stretches the full width of the stone, and is in high relief, which has preserved it long after the accompanying inscription has vanished. The probable date may be about 1650. FIG. 3.--AT WIDCOMBE, NEAR BATH. In Newhaven Churchyard, though there are but these two striking examples of the allegorical gravestone, there is one other singular exemplification of the graver's skill and ingenuity, but it is nearly a score of years later in date than the others, and probably by another mason. It represents the old and extinct bridge over the Sussex Avon at Newhaven, and it honours a certain brewer of the town, whose brewery is still carried on there and is famous for its "Tipper" ale. Allowing that it was carved by a different workman, it is only fair to suppose that it may have been suggested by its predecessors. Its originality is beyond all question, which can very rarely be said of an old gravestone, and, as a churchyard record of a local institution, I have never seen it equalled or approached. FIG. 4.--AT NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. Under the design is the following inscription: "To the Memory of Thomas Tipper, who departed this life May y'e 14th, 1785, Aged 54 Years. "READER, with kind regard this GRAVE survey Nor heedless pass where TIPPER'S ashes lay. Honest he was, ingenuous, blunt, and kind; And dared do, what few dare do, speak his mind. PHILOSOPHY and History well he knew, Was versed in PHYSICK and in Surgery too. The best old STINGO he both brewed and sold, Nor did one knavish act to get his Gold. He played through Life a varied comic part, And knew immortal HUDIBRAS by heart. READER, in real truth, such was the Man, Be better, wiser, laugh more if you can." That these were all the especial eccentricities of this burial-place disappointed me, but, with my after-knowledge, may say that three such choice specimens from one enclosure is a very liberal allowance. Suspecting that sculptors of the quality necessary for such high-class work would be unlikely to dwell in a small and unimportant fisher-village such as Newhaven was in the middle of the eighteenth century, I went over to Lewes, the county town being only seven miles by railway.
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