Four Headstones West Of Nave

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WISBECH TF 4609 6/279 Four headstones, west of nave GV II

(i) Headstone, mid C18. Limestone. Architectural form of engaged Ionic columns with entablature and segmental pediment having a figure of the risen deceased in the tympanum. Below is an oval panel with inscription, now indecipherable, in bas-relief with, in the upper spandrels, a crown of honours and trumpet of victory and, in the tower spandrels, an hour glass and skull of mortality.

(ii) Headstone, c.1767, probably by Samuel Andrews of Wisbech. Limestone. Shaped head formed of C and S - leaf scrolls around a glory. Below is a panel with inscription and Gothic, Italic and Roman lettering and a border of bead and egg and dart moulding flanked by drops of fruit and leaf ornament.

(iii) Headstone, Henry Adams, 1740. Limestone. Architectural form of engaged Corinthian columns with entablature and shaped pediment with angel trumpeter and two winged cherubs heads. Below is a circular panel for the inscription with flowers and foliage to the upper spandrels and hour glass and skull to tower.

(iv) Headstone, a member of Adams family, 1742, and similar to (iii).

F. Burgess, English Churchyard Memorials.

Listing NGR: TF4626609548