Wall Tablet
Chancel North Wall
Floor Plan
Ann Butt d 1816
Constantia Butt d 1827

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  1. A white nowy-headed rectangular tablet set against a conforming black ground. A large weeping branch is carved above the inscription which is incised in roman-style caps of varying sizes with some sloped lettering. A carved shield of arms is placed just below the inscription tablet and overlaps the black ground. Some of the painted tincture is now lost.

    Blazon          Gules on a chevron Argent between three estoiles Or, as many lozenges of the field [BUTTS] (ref a)

    The sculptor’s name is incised in caps on the front E side at the bottom of the ground:

    CRAKE / PORTMLAND ROAD. LONDON

  2. Marble

  3. Early second quarter 19th c

  4. Estimated h. 155 x w. 63.5 x d. 6cm

  5. Michael Crake (ref b)

  6. Michael Crake (ref b)

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  8. -

  9. SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / ANN BUTT / ONLY DAUGHTER OF / ROBERT AND JANE WOGDON / AND LATE WIFE OF WILLIAM BUTT / OF CORNEY BURY, ESQUIRE, / WHO DIED 2ND MAY 1816 / AGED 48 YEARS, / AND WHOSE REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED / BENEATH THIS CHANCEL: / AS A DAUGHTER, A WIFE AND A MOTHER, / HER CHARACTER WAS AMIABLE AND EXEMPLARY. / ALSO SACRED TO THE MEMORY / OF / CONSTANTIA THE WIFE OF / WILLIAM BUTT ESQRE / SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE, / ON THE 15TH OF FEBRY A.D. 1827, / IN THE 37TH YEAR OF HER AGE; / LEAVING TWO INFANT DAUGHTERS TOO YOUNG / TO DEPLORE THEIR LOSS. / ENDEARED TO ALL BY MANNERS, TEMPER, MIND, / AND ANXIOUS EVERY DUTY TO FULFIL; / TILL, TORN FROM EARTHLY, TIES, HER SOUL RESIGND / THROUGH FAITH SUBMITTED TO HER SAVIOUR’S WILL. /

  10. a) Burke p 156 b) Gunnis p 116