Row Of 7 Headstones And 4 Footstones From Approximately 17 To Approximately 25 Metres South Of Church Of St Giles

ASHTEAD ASHTEAD PARK TQ 1857-1957 8/19 Row of 7 headstones and 4 footstones from approx. 17 to approx. 25 metres south of Church of St Giles GV II

Row of 7 monumental headstones on north-south line (interrupted between the 1st and 2nd). Mostly mid C18. All of limestone. Commemorating (from left to right): (1) Mary Bovey (d.1746 [?]): shaped top, carved skull-and-cross-bones; (2) John Syms (d.1787): shaped top with fan, two 4-line verses of doggerel; (3) Alice Syms (d.1785): similar to (2), including verses; footstone to rear inscribed "AS 1785"; (4) John Symes (d.1738): crude segmental pediment with consoles, carved skull; matching footstone to rear inscribed "JS 1738" (5) Benjamin Symes (d.1742, aged 27): similar to (4) but with more emphatic design, and couplet "Young men of strength behold and see Just in my prime Death conquered me"; matching footstone to rear insribed "BS 1742"; (6) Phebe Symes (d.1755): large stone, elaborately shaped top with scrolls, skull- and-cross-bones; (7) Mrs Mary Hunt (d.1747): similar to (6); footstone to rear inscribed "MH 1747".

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