St Lawrence, Stanton Prior – Memorial Inscriptions
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St Lawrence, Stanton Prior – Memorial Inscriptions Most of these inscriptions were recorded in 1879 in the Parish Register volume for 1764-1812 by the then Rector W S Browne. A few inscriptions were dated later, so were presumably added after 1879 (in the same handwriting). He also added other information in this volume from the time he became Rector in 1866. A few inscriptions were written at the start of the Register, with the majority at the end. On my coming to the Benefice of Stanton Prior, the following were the only inscriptions remaining on the floor of the Chancel: Here lies the remains of the / Revd Samuel Parlivent / who departed this life / March ye 7th 1775, in the 66 / year of his age. (Under the Communion ?, where it still remains) Here lyeth the Body of / Esther wife of John / mother of John Paull / sometime Minister of this Parish, who deceased / Janu. ye 16 1670. Christus Vita. (Now near the Pulpit) (Signed) W. S. Browne, Rector 1866. In the Church, near the N. side of the Chancel Arch Christ in our head, our hope, our life, & wee / His numbers live in him, though dead wee bee. / He died for sinns?, siners to free from paine: / His die to sine?, and rise with him againe. (Inscriptions to) Thomas Cox died Feb 28, 1650 aged 43 Thomas primogen died Feb 10, 1650 aged 17 Joane uxoris died Aug 23, 1644 aged 38 Maria filia died 4 May, 1644 aged 2 On the N. side of the Tower (Long Latin inscription, the key words I translate as:) ROBERTI LONG Armigeri Died Feb 19, 1697, aged 91. On the floor of the Aisle Here lyeth the body of Mr. John Vannam, Gent, who departed this life the 24 of November, in the year of our Lord 1681, aged 88. In the Church, on the South Wall of the Tower In Memory / of Charles Coates of this Parish, / who died July the 31st 1782, / Aged 50 years. Also of Peter, son of the above / Charles Coates, who died Jany. 16Th 1783, / Aged 16 years. Also Mary, wife of / the above Charles Coates, / who died the 13th of Feby. 1803, / Aged 77. Also to the ever-venerated Memory / of Thomas Coates, / son of the above / Charles and Mary Coates, / who departed this life 1st May, 1818, / Aged 59. Also Ann, the amiable? and affectionate / wife of the above Thomas Coates who / departed this life March 3rd 1832, / Aged 74 years. _________________ The following are accurate copies of all the inscriptions in the Churchyard of Stanton Prior at the present date. (Signed) W.S.Browne, Rector, Dec 22 1879 Headstone In Memory / of George Mills of / this Parish, who died / .. the ..7 Ag.. /(worn) From all my toil / God hath set me free. / Prepare, my Wife and Child, / All to follow me. (At the foot G.M. 1753) Altar Tomb Sacred to the Memory of / Caroline Frances, / Eldest daughter of the / Revd. James and Caroline Phillott, / who died April 9th 1865. Here lie the mortal remains of / Caroline, / wife of the / Revd. James Phillott, / who died the 11th of May, / 1852, / in her 72nd year. The body of / the Revd. James Phillott, M.A. / lies buried here, / who for fifty years was Rector / of this Parish, / and Curate of the same / during the eleven preceding years. / He died the 30th of December, 1865, / in his 88th year. Headstone In / Memory of / Martha Woodham, / wife of Richard Woodham of this Parish, / who died December 11, 1849, / Aged 51 years. Also the aforesaid / Richard Woodham, / who died December 15th 1853, / Aged 62 years. Headstone Sacred / to the Memory of / Charles Coates of this / Parish, who died March 29, 1838, / Aged 48 years. Also of James, son of William / & Elizabeth Herman, who died / April 9th 1838, Aged 8 years. Headstone To the Memory / of / Ann Coates, / who died June 16th 1853, / Aged 67 years. Altar Tomb Sacred / to the Memory / of William Vaughan / of this Parish, / who departed this life / April the 22nd 1817, / Aged 49 years. Also to the Memory of / Ann, wife of the aforesaid / William Vaughan, / who departed this life / November * 1849 / Aged * years. (Centre of the stone had peeled) Altar Tomb Sacred / to the memory of / Elizabeth Stokes, / wife of John Stokes, / Keynsham / who departed this life Aug. 15th 1837, / Aged 36 years, / Leaving a disconsolated / Husband & six children / to lament her loss. Altar Tomb Sacred / to the Memory of / Betty, wife of Chas Coates, / of this Parish, Yeoman, / who died 13th Jany. 1822, / Aged 66 years. Near this place lies the remains / of Thomas, son of the above, / who departed this life / January the 28th 1829 / Aged 32 years. Also to the memory of / the aforesaid / Charles Coates, / who departed this life / July 15th 1840, / Aged 80 years. Altar Tomb In Memory of / William Clement / * dyed * March / 17* Aged * years. (Almost illegible) Also here lieth ye / Body of Hester, ye / Wife of William / Clement, who died / Novemb. ye 7th, 1750. / Aged 46. / In love I lived, in peace I dyed: / My life desired, but God denyed. Here lieth ye body of Mary, / wife of William Holbrook / of this Parish, who died / November ye 20, 1722. / Aged 30. Also ye said William Holbrook / died January 21st 1726. / Aged 36. As God together did us join, / So he did part us in our prime. Also Mary, ye daughter of / William Holbrook & Mary / his wife, who died May ye 12, / 1732. Aged 24 years. Death is A pursevant, / With Eagles wings: / He knocks at poor man's doors, / And gates of kings. Altar Tomb In Memory of / William Clement, Gent, / of Chewton Keynsham, / who departed this life / the 16 of July, 1801, / Aged 73 years. / Our mortal frame death decays, / But faith dispels the gloom: / Man's spirit lives, and God shall rise / our bodies from the tomb. Also Phoebe, wife of the above, / * 14 July * 1806 / Aged 73years. (Partly illegible) (A note by the Rector states “The word July is quite plain but the register gives June, which is probably correct”). Altar Tomb Sacred / to the Memory of / Sargent Taylor, Yeoman, / of this Parish, who departed this / life November 2nd 1841, / Aged 71 years. Also to the Memory of / Elizabeth, wife of the said / Sargent Taylor, who departed / this life Aug. 20th 1846, / Aged 74 years. Altar Tomb Sacred / to the Memory of / John Taylor, of the Parish / of Corston, who departed this / life the 11th of September, 1846, / Aged 48 years. Headstone In Memory of / Matthew, son of George / & Ann Millard, of this Parish, / who departed this life / March 19th 1825. Aged 23 years. / Affliction sore long time I bore, / Physicians were in vain; / Till God was pleased that Death should cease, / And ease me of my pain. Also Ann Millard, of this Parish, / who died August 26th 1843, / Aged 75 years. Headstone Sacred / to the Memory of / Samuel Parfitt Millard./ Born Novr 12th 1812./ Died May 5th 1865. Also of / Elizabeth Millard, / Widow of the above / Born 12th Feby 1804 / Died 22nd Octr 1873. Headstone Charles Jones / Died June 25 1851 / Aged 62 years. Ann Jones / Died September 13 1877 / Aged 83 years. “Christ our Life” Flat Stone Here lyeth the body of / Mary Grace of this Parish, / who departed this life / the 10 day of May, 1704, / Aged 30 years. Flat Stone Here lyeth the Body / of John Brookman, of this / Parish, Yeoman, who departed this life / May ye 13, 1687. Aged 64 years. Also here lyeth the Body of John, / Son of the above-mentioned, of this / Parish, Yeoman, who departed this / life Nov. ye 27th, 1708. Aged 44 years. Also near this place lyeth Interred the / Body of Jane, the wife of John / White, of Bristol, Farier, & Dau- / ghter of the above-mentioned John Brookman, Senior, who de- / parted this life Sep. ye 3, 1715. / Aged 56 years. Their lives were pure, their actions just, / And now their souls are blest wee trust. Flat Stone H.B. 1720 R.B. (Rector's note: I have no doubt that this stone covers the remains of the two persons last-named in the inscription next following, cut in the buttress, not far off – viz. Richard Brookman and his wife Hester Brookman, who died within a day of each other, on the 2nd and 3rd April, 1720.) Cut on the S.W. Buttress of the Tower John Brookman deceased / the 30 day of June 1615. R.B. Here lyeth ye body of Ann, the / wife of John Brookman, who / deceased ye 15 day of August, / 1677. Here lyeth the body of Hester, / the wife of Richard Hiwood, / ye daughter of Richard Brookman, / who deceased ye 23 day of February, 1692. Near this place lyeth ye body of Richard / Brookman, Junior, of this Parish, who dyed / June ye 8th, 1708. Aged 68. Near this place lyeth ye body of Joane ye wife / of Joseph Brookman, who dyed August / ye 18, 1716. Aged 40. Near this place lyeth ye body of Mary, / ye wife of Richard Brookman, Junior, / who dyed May ye 4th, 1720. Aged 82. Near this place lyeth ye body of / Richard Brookman, Senior, who dyed / ye 3rd day of April, 1720. Aged 60. Near this place lyeth ye body of / Hester, ye wife of Richard Brookman, / Senior, who dyed ye 2nd of April, 1720. Aged 62. Altar Tomb Sacred / to the Memory / of Sarah Bryan, / wife of Edward Bryan / of this Parish, / who departed this life / September 1st 1817. / Aged 58 years. Underneath are deposited / the remains of the above mentioned / Edward Bryan, / who departed this life / the 29th day of September, / Aged 71 years.