Brass Tomb Approximately 4 Metres South Of Chancel Of Church Of St John The Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. A C17 Tomb.
Brass Tomb Approximately 4 Metres South Of Chancel Of Church Of St John The Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- ruined-quartz-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1988
- Type
- Tomb
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 23 SE, 6/44 (inset)
SPENNYMOOR FRONT STREET (North side) Kirk Merrington
Brass tomb c.4 metres south of chancel of Church of St. John the Evangelist
GV
II
Chest tomb. To 3 children, John, Jane and Elizabeth Brass, murdered 1683; tomb restored 1789 'by subscription', in reality by George Wood. Sandstone ashlar; slab with moulded edges on roll-moulded corner slabs, with rusticated panels in style of coursed masonry. Long inscription records murder by their father's servant, Andrew Mills, and his execution and hanging in chains, and ends Reader remember Sleeping/we were Slain And here we sleep till we must/rise again Whoso sheddeth Man's Blood By Man shall his Blood be shed Thou shalt do no murder
Word 'executed" scatched out, supposedly by the culprit's family.
Source: W. Fordyce, History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, 1857, Vol. I, p.581.
Note. Fragment of stone inside church bears part of the original inscription.
Listing NGR: NZ2623931457
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