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FARLEIGH HUNGERFORD MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS 2018 Farleigh Hungerford – Memorial Inscriptions Author: P J Bendall Date: 23-Sep-2018 Status: Issue 1 Issue 1 ii Farleigh Hungerford – Memorial Inscriptions Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 Layout ...................................................................................................... 3 Churchyard ....................................................................................................... 5 Garden of Remembrance .............................................................................. 57 Internal Memorials ............................................................................................ 60 Plaques ................................................................................................... 60 Ledger Stones ........................................................................................... 69 Other Memorials ........................................................................................ 73 Windows ................................................................................................. 74 Index ............................................................................................................ 77 Issue 1 iii Farleigh Hungerford – Memorial Inscriptions Issue 1 iv Farleigh Hungerford – Memorial Inscriptions Introduction note, but was reduced in height during the 20th century. St Leonard’s boasts a fine set of bells, the most recent of The font is modern, and replace ne now in the castle which was commissioned to celebrate the millennium. chapel, the history of which is uncertain. It may have come from the church which preceded the castle chapel, or from the long destroyed church at Rowley, just over the river at the bottom of the hill. Over the doorway of the porch is a Latin inscription, though to come from the earlier church, referring to St. Leonard’s position as patron saint of the imprisoned. The church’s ancient glass is one of its joys, containing fragments of windows from the pre-1443 church. IN the centre light the east widow depicts St Leonard in bishop’s vestments. With a cosier in his left hand, and prisoners’ manacles in his right. St Christopher, patron saint of travellers, occupies the left light, carrying the infant Christ on his shoulders. In the right are a female saint and a child, said to be St Anne and the Blessed Virgin. The church of St Leonard, Farleigh Hungerford A notice in the porch of the church gives a brief history of The window also contains some small panels of later the building: foreign, probably Flemish, glass, including a The church was built during the reign of Henry VI by representation of the Day of Judgement and an incident Walter, Lord Hungerford, Knight of the Garter, to replace from St Leonard’s life when a hunted deer fled to him for The burial register 1674-1758 notes the death of the village’s former parish church, which he had protection. various parishioners without being explicit about appropriated as his private chapel within nearby Farleigh the burial. Also about 1720: In the south-west window of the chancel is a shield of Castle. It was consecrated on November 6th 1443, St I have searched this Register & made an enquiry amongst arms, described in heraldic terms thus:- Leonard’s Day, and is a good, if simple, example of the ye inhabitants of this parish & find a neglect for several perpendicular style. Quite remarkably it has undergone “Quarterly 1st and 4th Heytesbury, 2nd and 3rd Hungerford, years in ye Register: since ye time this parish has been almost no structural alteration whatsoever since that impaling 1st and 4th Zouche, 2nd St Maur quartering Lovell under my care which is from . 1717 I have set down an date, despite some restoration work in 1856. and 3rd Cantelupe” account of all Birth Marriages & Burials Roch: White Rectr The roofs of both porch and chancel are of the wagon- These were the arms of Sir Edward Hungerford (d. 1521) head variety, more common in Devon and Cornwall than and his wife Jane Zouche, and came from a cottage in While the register has a series of entries from locally, and both have finely carved bosses, that in the Wellow. 1718-1726, there is then a gap to 1736. porch featuring 3 interlinked sickles, one of the Hungerford Family’s heraldic badges. The nave roof has On the north side of the nave, in the window nearest the In the burial register 1759-1812 is: similar decoration, assumed to date from 1856. The oak pulpit, is a soldier’s head, thought to be that of Sir Thomas Memorandum. The Roman villa in the Temple Field in this chairs in the sanctuary are 17th century and came from the Hungerford, Speaker of the House of Commons in its Parish was opened by the Revd John Skinner, & the castle chapel, while the pulpit and altar rail are early 19th earliest manifestation, who purchased Farleigh, appended Rector, in the years 1822. It extended from North to South century. The ironwork of the chancel gates is worthy of his name to the village, and died in 1398. nearly; 55 yards long by 27½ broad. In the South-Eastern Issue 1 1 Farleigh Hungerford – Memorial Inscriptions corner was the Bath quite perfect, with the colour on the Inhabited houses: 28, uninhabited: 2 building: 1. D/P/fa.h/2/1/2 Baptisms and burials 1760-1831 plaster intire & on the North end, the chief Room, with a Families in agriculture: 26, families in trade &c: 5, D/P/fa.h/2/1/7 Burials 1813-1995 double wreath border round it & a Circle in the center families in neither: 3; males: 82, females: 92, total: highly ornamented. The dimensions not ascertained, the 174. Acknowledgements plow & prior opening having destroyed it. I am grateful to John Davidson for facilitating the B. Richardson Rector A Guide to Farleigh Hungerford, Co. Somerset, Illustrated N.B. This villa commanded Iford, & had a full view of photographing of the register and the internal with Ground Plans and Plates of Arms, and an Appendix another villa, in the same Parish of Farley, which memorials and, with Susan Beaven, providing a map of Ancient Manorial and Ecclesiastical Deeds by J E commanded Stowford. from which the map given here could be developed. Jackson (London, 1879) In the register is also a count of the baptisms, burials Burial Registers and marriage for the period 1811-1823 ‘answers to At Somerset Heritage Centre: the act of 1st George 4th for taking the population on th D/P/fa.h/2/1/1 Baptisms, marriages, burials the 28 May 1821’. This has: 1673-1758 Issue 1 2 Farleigh Hungerford – Memorial Inscriptions Layout Issue 1 3 Farleigh Hungerford – Memorial Inscriptions Issue 1 4 Farleigh Hungerford – Memorial Inscriptions Churchyard Names Inscriptions Notes 1 Joseph Crook (1854- East: 1901) IN LOVING MEMORY OF Sarah Ann Crook (1855- JOSEPH CROOK 1938) DIED SUDDENLY AT FARLEIGH HUNGERFORD MAY 10. 1901, AGED 47 YEARS Arthur Benjamin Crook ALSO HIS WIFE SARAH ANN (1878-1947) DIED 17TH MARCH 1938 AGED 82 YEARS South: Donald Major Crook AND THEIR SON (1916-1941) ARTHUR BENJAMIN DIED 31ST JAN 1947 Percy Joseph Crook AGED 59 YEARS (1884-1956) AND HIS SON DONALD MAJOR DIED 5TH DEC. 1941 AGED 24 YEARS. Cross on 3 plinths. Bertha Crook (1883- 1950) North: The birth of Joseph Crook was registered 1854/Q3 Frome. AND THEIR SON PERCY JOSEPH On 4 Jan 1877 at Freshford parish church: Joseph Crook, of full age, DIED 11TH MAY 1956 bachelor, flyman & haulier, of Freshford, son of Daniel Crookman (!), AGED 72 YEARS haulier, married Sarah Ann Eames, of full age, spinster, of Freshford, ALSO HIS WIFE BERTHA daughter of Thomas Eames, haulier. DIED 23RD DEC. 1950 AGED 68 YEARS The birth of Joseph Percy Crook was registered 1884/Q1 Bath, mother’s maiden name: Eames. The birth of Benjamin Arthur Crook was registered 1887/Q4 Bath, mother’s maiden name: Eames. In the 1901 census at Abbey Farm, Hinton Charterhouse: Joseph Crook, aged 47, farmer, born at Farleigh Hungerford, wife Sarah, aged 45, born at Freshford, and children: Reginald F, aged 23, born at Freshford, Percy J, aged 20, born at Freshford, Benjamin A, aged 13, born at Freshford, and Herbert E, aged 4, born at Freshford. The death of Joseph Crook, aged 45, was registered 1901/Q2 Frome. From the National Probate Calendar 1901: CROOK Joseph of the Abbey- farm Hinton Charterhouse Somersetshire farmer died 10 May 1901 Probate Bristol 20 June to Sarah Ann Crook widow Effects £1068 12s. 6d, Issue 1 5 Farleigh Hungerford – Memorial Inscriptions Names Inscriptions Notes The marriage of Percy J Crook to Bertha Francis was registered 1912/Q2 Bath. The marriage of Arthur B Crook to Florence M C Hobbs was registered 1914/Q1 Bristol. The birth of Donald M Crook was registered 1916/Q4, mother’s maiden name: Hobbs. The death of Sarah A Crook, aged 82, was registered 1938/Q1 Bathavon. From the National Probate Calendar 1938: CROOK Sarah Ann of Hill Side Hinton Charterhouse Somersetshire widow died 17 March 1938 Probate London 20 April to Percy Joseph Crook and Herbert Victor Crook farmers. Effects £440 12s. 9d. The death of Donald M Crook, aged 25, was registered 1941/Q4 Bath. The death of Arthur B Crook, aged 58, was registered 1947/Q1 Weston- super-Mare. From the National Probate Calendar 1947: CROOK Arthur Benjamin of Rooksbridge Somersetshire died 27 January 1947 Administration Bristol 7 May to Florence Maud Crook widow. Effects £793 5s. 3d. The death of Bertha Crook, aged 67, was registered 1950/Q4 Frome. From the National Probate Calendar 1951: CROOK Bertha of Lodge Farm