Monument To Doctor Rowland Taylor

The monument to Dr. Rowland Taylor is a pyramidal stone erected in 1818, which may replace or supplement an earlier stone likely from the early 17th century. It is enclosed in iron railings and located about 30 yards from the main road, set within cultivated fields, as the common was enclosed in 1729. The monument features verses written by Dr. Nathan Drake painted on it. Dr. Taylor, born in the early 16th century, was chaplain to Archbishop Cranmer and was appointed by him to the rectory of Hadleigh. A Protestant, he was a victim of Marian persecution and was burned at the stake on Aldham Common in 1555.