Monuments to James Thomas and family at New Bethel

Two monuments of marble and stone. The tall imposing near life size marble figure of James Thomas in contemporary dress stands towering over the graveyard and looking down to the valley; the figure holds a scroll in the right hand, the left resting on a draped pillar. He stands on a plinth supported by a tall rectangular monument heavily moulded with clustered shafts at each angle supporting on each face a very steep pitched gable with urns at each corner and inscription panel facing same direction as figure . Below is a further moulded tiered plinth set in an enclosure with stone surround decorated with pierced trefoils and blind gothic arches to the piers; the monument stands on a wider platform of heavily rusticated stone facing downhill, with freestanding piers with caps at each corner and railings completing the outer enclosure on the 3 uphill sides. By the wall stands a tomb chest of stone, with deep stepped plinth, the slab with raised central section surmounted at each end by finials and on the side of the tomb chest the leaded inscription panels in a triple trefoil-headed arcade with carved spandrels.