Corbet Memorial Approximately 15 Metres To South West Of Church Of Saint Bartholomew

SJ 5623-5723 MORETON CORBET C.P. MORETON CORBET

18/65 Corbet memorial - approx. 15 metres to south-west of Church of Saint Bartholomew

GV II

Churchyard memorial. Sculpture dated 1904 and signed by John H. M. Furse (b.1860). Marble pedestal with bronze sculpture. Pedestal with moulded plinth, moulded cornice, and cap with acanthus leaves at corners. Figure of Mercury, inscribed: "I.H.M. FURSE 1904". Front of pedestal with carved oak festoon, elephant and castle and squirrel, and inscribed: "VIRTUTIS LAUS AG/TIO/DUM/SPIRO/SPERO". Rear with carved swag and raven and inscribed "DEUS PASCIT CORVOS". Sides with carved wreaths. Left-hand side inscribed "To the/dear memory of/Vincent Stewart/Corbet/ B.January 27 1890/D. At Eton College/October 17 1903". Also in memory of Walter Orlando Corbet (d.1910) and Roland James Corbet (1915). Vincent Corbet died of appendicitis. This is a rare example of a sculpture. of metropolitan Post-Gilbert style in a country churchyard. Colonel Maurice Harold Grant, A Dictionary of British Sculptors, Rodcliff (1953) p.102; The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, Antique Collectors' Club (1976), p.190; S. Beatty, New Sculpture.

Listing NGR: SJ5609023239