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1. A large pedestal urn bearing a scrolled armorial cartouche is set in a niche within an aedicule above the inscription tablet. The urn has a double-domed lid, the upper dome gadrooned and with a knop finial. The rim of the lid is decorated with smal circular bosses and the lower part of the body is gadrooned. The spool-shaped pedestal has a reeded cap, the reeds bound with a spiral ribbon, and a base carved with bay leaves. The relief-carved achievement of arms placed on the plinth below is in a scrolled and scalloped cartouche with crossed palm branches tied with a ribbon at the base. There are no tinctures. The lamb’s head on the crest is missing.
   
   Blazon          (Argent) on a pale (Sable) three crosses pattée (Or)
                                 [CROWCH of Alswycke Co Herts] (ref a)
                       impaling
                       (Argent) three lions passant in pale (Sable) armed and langued (Gules)
                                 [CAREW] (ref b)
                       Crest: on a mount (Vert) a lamb couchant (Proper) (ref c)
   
   The semi-circular headed niche is lined with black and white veined marble. The white aedicule has a triangular pediment, stepped back at the sides and with the fragment of a white motif on the grey tympanum. At the apex of the arch is a scrolled and fluted keystone flanked by husk garlands which are suspended from circular bosses above the imposts which have a row of guttae beneath on the front face giving the appearance of capitals. Some guttae are missing. The impost band is continued across the back of the niche behind the lid of the urn and also across the set back grey sides of the aedicule which terminate in scrolled wing brackets. The base of the aedicule is ornamented with oval bosses at each side and with a meander frieze below the urn. Beneath each oval boss is a fluted white ogee bracket flanking the inscription tablet, all on a rectangular grey ground. The inscription is in black-filled roman caps, the infill much faded, and the tablet is supported by a large ogee bracket with gadrooned convex upper rim. The sculptor’s signature is incised in roman caps and l/c on the lower east corner of the tablet ground: I WILTON fecit. There is some staining of the white marble on the brackets.
   
   
2. Marble
   
   
3. 1756 (ref d)
   
   
4. Estimated h. 260 x w. 130 x d. 20cm
   
   
5. Joseph Wilton (ref d)
   
   
6. Joseph Wilton (ref d)
   
   
7. Pyke Crouch was the fourth in line to inherit the manor of Alswick from his ancestor John Crouch, commemorated at 011. (ref e) Upon his death it was conveyed by his son John in 1720 to Jacob Houblon. (ref f) The 17th century Hall stood on a moated site one mile SE of the church (ref f)
   
   
8. Thomas (later Pyke) Crouch
   
   
9. NEAR THIS PLACE LIE INTERRED / PYKE CROUCH / OF ALSWICK HALL IN THIS PARISH ESQR. / HE DIED DECEMBER JST J7J2. AGED 44 / AND CATHERINE HIS WIFE / DAUGHTER OF GEORGE CAREW OF LONDON MERCH. / SHE DIED JUNE J7 J756: AGED 8j. / ALSO CATHERINE THEIR DAUGHTER / WHO DIED JUNE 29: J735: AGED 27. / AND THOMAS THEIR SON / WHO ERECETD THIS MONUMNET TO THEIR MEMORY. / HE AFTERWARDS CHANGED HIS NAME TO PYKE, / AND DIED THE 28TH OF NOVEMBER J773, AGED 71. /
   
   
10. a) Papworth p 1006 b) Burke p 168 c) Fairbairn p 132 d) Gunnis p 437
    e) Cussans p 82 f) VCH pp 83,80