Over Stowey Gravestones

The full list of surnames recorded on gravestones in Over Stowey:

  • ABEL ACKLAND ADAMS AMORY ANDERSON APPLEBY ASHILL
  • BALDWIN BARING BARROW BEER BIFFIN (Biffen)BINDING BLAKE BLINMAN BOSLEY BOUSIE BRIFFETT BROCK BROWN BROWNING BULLER BURNETT BURROWS
  • CAVILL CHEDGEY CHILCOTT CLITSOME COMBER COOK COUSINS COX CRAWFORD CRIDDLE CULVERWELL
  • DAVIS DENMARK DOBLE DODWELL DRAKE DUBIN DYER
  • ELLIS ELWES
  • FITZ-OWEN
  • GAMBLE GARDNER GARRAWAY GRANDFIELD GRICE GUERIN SOLBE GLADDY GULLICK
  • HAM HARE HARRIS HARRISON HASTE HECTOR HELLIER HEMMONS HILL HIPPERSON HITCHINS HOLLAND HORSENALL HOWARD HUGHES HUNT HURMAN
  • JONES JOWETT
  • KER KNIGHT
  • LABOUCHERE LANDSEY LANSDOWN(E) LEWIS LOVELL
  • MARTYN MATCHETT MOGG MORLE MOWER
  • NEWBERY
  • OLIVER
  • PALMER PARISH PAYNE PERRY PHILLIPS POOLE PORTER POTTER PURSEY
  • RAVENSBERG REID RHODES RICH ROBERTSON
  • SALVAGE SAUNDERS SAYER SEALE SEALY SELLICK (Selleck) SHEPHERD SHEPPARD SHERRAN SLOCOMBE SMITH STANBURY STANDFAST STANLEY STON STRITFOLD SULLY SUMMERS SUTTON SWAYNE SWEET-ESCOTT
  • TIPLINE TITE TRAPNELL TROUT TUCKER
  • VENN VERNCOMB VEYSEY VILLI
  • WALFORD WALSHE WALTON WARD WARE WASHER WEBBER WELSHE WESTCOTT WHITLEY WICKHAM WILKINS WILSON

The complete list of gravestone inscriptions both around the church and in the parish graveyard in .doc format is available for download here:

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS
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MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS

OF OVER STOWEY, SOMERSET

247 memorials, 1619 - 2010

Queries checked with Parish Registers 1558 – 1654, 1686 – 1747 & 1777 - 1932, at Somerset Heritage Centre (the Cemetery has it’s own separate registers, which have not been deposited there).

Recorded, typed and indexed by Sir Mervyn Medlycott, 2016 (incorporating copies by Edmund Rack, c1782-6, John Collinson, 1791 and Timothy Whittingham, 2000).

copies to:

  • Somerset & Dorset Family History Society (MI Index. Electronic copy only).
  • Somerset & Dorset Family History Society (Library).
  • Somerset Heritage Centre, Taunton.
  • Society of Genealogists Library, London.
  • Incumbent and PCC of Over Stowey.
  • Timothy Whittingham (with CD).
  • Sir Mervyn Medlycott.

OVER STOWEY MIs: SURNAME INDEX

(numbers of memorials, not pages)

  • ABEL: CM42
  • ACKLAND: CM89, CM90
  • ADAMS: W15 & CM28
  • AMORY: IN5
  • ANDERSON: IN11
  • APPLEBY: CM26
  • ASHILL: S07
  •  
  • BALDWIN: CM100
  • BARING: IN8 & IN9
  • BARROW: W11b, CM48 & CM50
  • BEER: CM16
  • BIFFIN (Biffen): CM21 & CM110
  • BINDING: CM112
  • BLAKE: IN21 & IN34
  • BLINMAN: W15
  • BOSLEY: CM143
  • BOUSIE: E21 & CM14
  • BRIFFETT: CM41
  • BROCK: E19
  • BROWN: IN17
  • BROWNING: CM41
  • BULLER: E05, E06, E07, E08 & IN1
  • BURNETT: CM133
  • BURROWS: CM37
  •  
  • CAVILL: CM18 & CM38
  • CHEDGEY: W03
  • CHILCOTT: CM58
  • CLITSOME: CM104
  • COMBER: S06 & S07
  • COOK: CM62 & CM63
  • COUSINS: CM109
  • COX: CM29
  • CRAWFORD: IN10 & IN29
  • CRIDDLE: E32
  • CULVERWELL: CM138
  •  
  • DAVIS: CM24 & CM83
  • DENMARK: IN24
  • DOBLE: CM88
  • DODWELL: IN31
  • DRAKE: IN15
  • DUBIN: CM92-CM95
  • DYER: E02, E31 & S17
  •  
  • ELLIS: IN5
  • ELWES: CM1
  •  
  • FITZ-OWEN: CM45
  •  
  • GAMBLE: CM55 & CM111
  • GARDNER: CM84
  • GARRAWAY: CM52
  • GRANDFIELD: IN14, IN17, CM8, CM9, CM11 & CM121-CM123
  • GRICE: CM118 & CM119
  • GUERIN SOLBE: CM49 & CM51
  • GLADDY: CM107
  • GULLICK: CM44
  •  
  • HAM: CM68
  • HARE: CM131
  • HARRIS: CM71 & CM74
  • HARRISON: IN17
  • HASTE: W10 & CM99
  • HECTOR: CM82
  • HELLIER: E10-E15
  • HEMMONS: CM17
  • HILL: S18, CM70, CM103 & CM126
  • HIPPERSON: CM87
  • HITCHINS: CM16
  • HOLLAND: IN31
  • HORSENALL: W01
  • HOWARD: IN20
  • HUGHES: IN14, CM54 & CM117
  • HUNT: E09, W02, W04-W06 & CM139
  • HURMAN: CM27
  •  
  • JONES: E01, E30, CM105 & CM124
  • JOWETT: CM60
  •  
  • KER: CM111
  • KNIGHT: S08, CM98 & CM101
  •  
  • LABOUCHERE: W01, IN8, IN9, IN23, IN25, IN26, IN29 & IN32
  • LANDSEY: E23, S05 & S11
  • LANSDOWN(E): E03 & E04
  • LEWIS: IN15
  • LOVELL: CM27
  •  
  • MARTYN: IN7, IN14 & CM73
  • MATCHETT: CM56
  • MOGG: E25 & CM23
  • MORLE: E29, S13, S14 & S16
  • MOWER: CM96
  •  
  • NEWBERY: CM65
  •  
  • OLIVER: W15
  •  
  • PALMER: E28, S10, W11, CM10, CM12, CM13, CM15, CM19, CM57, CM64, CM79 & CM91
  • PARISH: W09
  • PAYNE: CM61 & CM102
  • PERRY: CM15
  • PHILLIPS: IN17 & CM22
  • POOLE: W14
  • PORTER: W15
  • POTTER: CM97
  • PURSEY: CM100
  •  
  • RAVENSBERG: CM26
  • REID: CM34 & CM35
  • RHODES: CM11
  • RICH: E16-E18, E20, E22, S01-S04, S09, W15, IN17, IN22, IN30, IN34 & CM78
  • ROBERTSON: IN28, CM36 & CM108
  •  
  • SALVAGE: CM59 & CM77
  • SAUNDERS: CM46 & CM47
  • SAYER: CM130
  • SEALE: CM67
  • SEALY: IN15
  • SELLICK (Selleck): E27, IN18, CM16
  • & CM140-CM142
  • SHEPHERD: CM43
  • SHEPPARD: IN16
  • SHERRAN: CM132
  • SLOCOMBE: CM39 & CM136
  • SMITH: CM106
  • STANBURY: CM76
  • STANDFAST: E15
  • STANLEY: E06a, IN2, IN3, IN5, IN6, IN13, IN27, IN33 & CM35
  • STONE: CM75
  • STRITFOLD: W15
  • SULLY: W04
  • SUMMERS: CM20 & CM81
  • SUTTON: CM34
  • SWAYNE: CM53
  • SWEET-ESCOTT: CM115
  •  
  • TIPLINE: W15
  • TITE: W11a
  • TRAPNELL: CM31, CM134 & CM135
  • TROUT: IN17, CM72 & CM129
  • TUCKER: CM80 & CM113
  •  
  • VENN: W08 & CM33
  • VERNCOMB: E26
  • VEYSEY: CM120
  • VILLIS: CM69 & CM116
  •  
  • WALFORD: CM125 & CM127
  • WALSHE: IN19
  • WALTON: E24
  • WARD: W13, IN4, IN12 & CM2-CM7
  • WARE: CM137
  • WASHER: S19
  • WEBBER: CM25, CM32 & CM40
  • WELSHE: IN19
  • WESTCOTT: CM30
  • WHITLEY: CM114
  • WICKHAM: IN35
  • WILKINS: CM85, CM86 & CM128
  • WILSON: CM66

(Exact wording is given for all memorials, which are in double inverted commas, in most instances with obliques '/' indicating the ends of lines). As is my standard practice, memorials entirely post-dating 1980 have been omitted.

 

In 2000 Timothy Whittingham, of Moorings, Over Stowey, compiled copies of inscriptions on memorials in Over Stowey churchyard and he produced a splendid plan showing where these memorials were located. Copies of his compilation were deposited in the church and with the Somerset & Dorset Family History Society, but nowhere else, not even in the Somerset Record Office (now known as the Somerset Heritage Centre). In 2016 the need for me to copy memorials inside Over Stowey church and at Over Stowey Cemetery, which Mr: Whittingham did not do, led me to check and revise his compilation of Over Stowey churchyard.

 

I found his copies were, in most instances, very good and accurate, but I was able to make some corrections and copied three memorials which he had difficulties deciphering, E01, S05 and W13. He had no knowledge of the standard terminology for memorial types, describing as “horizontal stone” what were mainly coped stones, although one was a chest tomb, another a kerb to a headstone and another a large flat ledger stone. Some he gave as “headstone” were clearly footstones and four were crosses.

 

One memorial he recorded, E32, has vanished since 2000 and three, E26, E30 and E31 have been moved from where they were shown on the plan. This clearly happened when the village hall was extended in about 2012 along part of the eastern boundary of the churchyard. Three were successfully moved, but I suspect E32 broke up into pieces and was discarded. This is sad, as it was one of only two 18th century memorials then surviving in the churchyard.

 

I have added three memorials which Timothy Whittingham did not number (the first he gave without any number, the other two he omitted), which I have given the numbers E06a, W11a and W11b. Also I have given, at the end, as W14 and W15, some, now vanished, inscriptions recorded by Edmund Rack at Over Stowey in his c1782-6 “Survey of Somerset”, although we don’t actually know where in the churchyard they were originally located.

 

As Timothy Whittingham has used code letters with sequences of numbers for three portions of the churchyard, I have, in conformity, done the same for Over Stowey church interior (as “IN” with numbers) and Over Stowey Cemetery (as “CM” with numbers), which follow later in this compilation.

 

CHURCHYARD

 

E01). Coped Stone (just verses on north slope). On south slope: “Sacred to the memory of / Robert JONES, born in this parish / for 33 years a resident at Demerara, British Guiana / who departed this life at Staplegrove, nr. Taunton, in this county / May 12th 1859, aged 55 years”.

E02). Coped Stone (south slope is blank). On north slope: “In memory of / William DYER, who departed this life June 23, 1880 / aged 87 years”.

E03). Headstone and kerb. “George Edmund LANSDOWNE, J.P. / born Nov: 11th 1853 / died Aug: 29th 1930 / Elsie Emma Lansdowne / born July 3rd 1875 / died Nov: 9th 1943”.

E04). Headstone and Coped Stone. On south slope of coped stone: “In affectionate remembrance of / Mary / the beloved wife of George LANSDOWN, of this parish / who died March 4, 1872, aged 57 years”. On north slope of coped stone: “Also in fond memory of / George Lansdown / who died May 18, 1874, aged 58 years”. On headstone: “Also in memory of / Henry / son of George and / Mary Lansdown / who fell asleep in Jesus / July 30, 1875, aged 34 years / Also in memory of / Aquila / son of George and Mary Lansdown / born July 11, 1843, died Oct: 4, 1894”.

E05). Headstone (surmounted by a cross). “Edith Frances BULLER / fell asleep Sep: 26, A.D. 1876 / aged 33 years”.

E06). Headstone (surmounted by a cross). “Jane Ruscombe BULLER / fell asleep / April 21, A.D. 1872 / aged 23 years”.

E06a). This memorial is not numbered, but is the large cross on octagonal base, marked on the plan as being close to E06. “To the dear memory of / Henry STANLEY / eldest son of Edward & Mary Stanley / of Quantock Lodge / in this parish / Lieutenant / in the West / Somerset / Yeomanry / & the XXVth Company / Imperial Yeomanry / who fell in action / at Hekpoort / South Africa / on the XVIth of / September MCM / aged XXVII (ie.16 Sept 1900, aged 27) / and was laid / to rest / near the field / of battle”.

E07). Cross. “Robert / Beadon BULLER / born January 1, 1846 / died July 17, 1865”.

E08). Coped Stone (inscription on ledge around the edge, with some damage, hence queries). “To the memory of the Reverend William Beadon BULLER, M?.A. / 35 years Vicar of this / parish, who died on the …ing (either morning or evening) of St. Stephen’s Day (26 Dec) 1855, aged 50”.

E09). Cross. On west side: “In loving memory / of / George HUNT / of this parish / who fell asleep / January 31, 1874 / aged 70 years”. On south side (worn): “Charlotte / …(wife?) of George Hunt / …(died J)une 17, 1876 / aged 68 years” (PR: “Charlotte Hunt” buried 22 June 1876).

E10 and E11). Small Headstone and Footstone to the same person. “L.H. / 1858” (clearly “Lucy HELLIER” given on E15).

E12 and E13). Small Headstone and Footstone to the same person. “H.W.H. / 1880” (clearly “Hannah Warford HELLIER” given on E15).

E14 and E15). Headstone and Footstone. On headstone E15: “In memory of / William HELLIER / who died at Poundsford Park / April 16th 1860, aged 63 / Also Lucy, his daughter / who died Decr: 28th 1858, aged 12 / Also Hannah Warford / relict of the above named / William Hellier / who died Sepr: 10th 1880, aged 74 / Mary Jane STANDFAST / eldest daughter of the above / William Hellier / who died Sepr: 10th 1882, aged 46? (worn)” (PR: Mary Jane Standfast wasn’t buried here). On footstone E14: “W.H. / 1860”.

E16). Coped Stone. On south slope: “In memory of / Thomas RICH, of Cross Cottage, Over Stowey / who died April 17, 1875, aged 73 years”. On north slope: “Also in memory of / Ann, wife of Thomas Rich / who died November 22, 1861 / aged 59 years”.

E17 and E18). Small Headstone and Footstone to the same person “A.R. / 1861” (clearly “Ann RICH” given on E16).

E19). Headstone. “In memory of / Ann BROCK / widow of the late W. BROCK / of Stoke Poges, Bucks / who died at Quantock Lodge / on the 2 of May 1872”.

E20). Coped Stone. On south slope: “In memory of / Ann / the beloved wife of Samuel RICH, of this parish / who entered into her rest Aug: 17, 1864, aged 64 years”. On north slope: “Also in loving memory of / Samuel Rich / who fell asleep in Jesus February 2, 1886, aged 93 years”.

E21). Small Headstone. “Thomas Louis BOUSIE / died 19th Novr: 1867 / aged 12 years”.

E22). Headstone and Coped Stone. On south slope of coped stone: “In loving memory of / Sarah Ann RICH, of Cross House, Over Stowey / who peacefully fell asleep 30th December 1892 / aged 52 years”. On north slope of coped stone: “Also of Samuel Rich, of Cross House, Over Stowey / who passed peacefully away June 30th 1912, aged 74 years”. On headstone: “In / loving memory of / Samuel Rich / son of Samuel and / Mary A.A. Rich / of Cross Farm / who fell in the Great War / in France, April 1918 / aged 19 years / Also of / Mary A.A. Rich / wife of Samuel Rich / and mother of the above / who departed this life / Sep: 8th 1923, aged 65 years”.

E23). Headstone. “In memory of / Thomas LANDSEY / late of the parish of / Nether Stowey / who departed this life / the 13th of January 1802 / aged 72 years”.

E24). Headstone. “In / fond memory of / Sarah / the widow of / Silvester WALTON / of Staindrop in the Co: / of Durham / who died at Over Stowey / Dec: 13, 1879, aged 82 years” (in between E24 and E25 there is a large flat ledger stone not marked on the plan, but it is illegible).

E25). Headstone. “In memory of / Avis / the beloved wife of Anthony MOGG / who died January 8, 1874 / aged 77 years / Also Anthony, husband / of the above, who died 8 August / 1888, aged 88”.

 

E26). Displaced Headstone, leaning against east boundary wall (moved to close to E29 since the plan was made). “Here lieth the / body of Hugh / VERNCOMB, who was / buried Feb: 28th 1718”.

E27). Displaced Headstone, leaning against east boundary wall. “In / memory / of / Charles Davey SELLICK / a singer of the sanctuary / fell asleep / March 22, A.D. 1872, aged 27 years / Also James Sellick, father of the / above, born 1806, died 1862”.

E28). Displaced Headstone, leaning against east boundary wall. “In memory of / Mary PALMER / who died Dec: 19, 1876”.

E29). Displaced Footstone, leaning against east boundary wall. “J.M. / 1835” (PR: clearly “John MORLE” buried 24 Oct 1835, aged 51).

E30). Displaced Headstone, leaning against east boundary wall (moved to close to E29 since the plan was made). “Sacred / to the memory of / Ann JONES / who departed this life October 1, 1855 / aged 49 years”.

E31). Footstone lying on the ground face-upwards (moved to close to E23 since the plan was made). “P.D. / 1860” (clearly “Phebe DYER” given on S17).

E32). Headstone (vanished since the plan was made). “In memory / of John CRIDDLE / of this parish / who departed / this life the 15th of April 1759 / in the 54th year of his age / Also in memory of / Jane Criddle, wife of / the above John Criddle / who departed this life / 22 of September 17-9 / aged 74” (PR: “Jane Criddle” buried 26 Sept 1789; gap in PR: 1747-77).

 

S01). Chest Tomb (east panel is blank; north panel has flaked). South panel: “In memory of / Edmund RICH, of Cross, who died Sep: 8, 1842, aged 81 years / Also of Jane, wife of Edmund Rich / who died April 6, 1865, aged 93 years / Also of Joseph, son of the above Edmund and Jane Rich / who died Sep: 27, 1854, aged 59 years / Also of James, son of the above, who died July 1, 1863 / aged 54 years”. West panel: “In memory of / Mary / the beloved wife of / Clement Rich / of Blindwell House / Nether Stowey, who died / Dec: 2, 1894, aged 73 / Also Clement, husband of / the above, who fell asleep / Nov: 19, 1895, aged 84”. As luck would have it, the inscription on the flaked north panel, is almost certainly the one printed in Collinson’s “History of Somerset” [1791], vol.1, p.260, and in Edmund Rack’s “Survey of Somerset” of c1782-6 [Somerset Heritage Centre A/AQP 7, fo.18] as it is now the only chest tomb in Over Stowey churchyard, as ‘on a handsome tomb in the church-yard’: “In memory of Samuel Rich, of Cross in this parish, gent: who died the 11th of June 1765, aged 60. Also Betty his wife, who died March 20, 1768, aged 68. With several of their children” (gap in PR: 1747-77).

S02).Small Headstone. “J.R. / 1854” (clearly Joseph RICH, given on S01).

S03). Small Headstone. “E.R. / 1842 / J.R. / 1865” (clearly Edmund and Jane RICH, given on S01).

S04). Small Headstone. “J.R. / 1863” (clearly James RICH, given on S01).

S05). Headstone (flaking badly, which I recorded in 2007; it has deteriorated further since). “….. memory … / …. William ….. / …… (p)arish, who … / …….. 1794, aged 45 … / Also ye said Willm: L-NDSEY / died March 18, 1810, in the / …… (yea)r of his age” (PR: first person not given in 1794, but this could be “Deborah LANDSEY” buried 27 Nov 1793; “William LANDSEY” buried 24 March 1810).

S06). Cross. On west side: “In memoriam / William COMBER / who died May 8, 1870 / aged 63 years”. On south side: “Also Jane / wife of / William Comber / who died Aug: 24, 1863 / aged 52 years”. On north side: “Also Edwin / son of / William Comber / who died March 28, 1867 / aged 33 years”.

S07). Cross. “In loving memory / of / May / the beloved wife of / William George ASHILL / of Bridgwater & daughter of / Frederick and Elizabeth COMBER / of this parish / who died Sept: 20th 1917, aged 34 years”.

S08). Footstone (surmounted by a cross) (to a now lost headstone). “L.K. / 1857” (PR: clearly “Lavinia KNIGHT” buried 4 May 1857, aged 71).

S09). Headstone (worn at the bottom). “Sacred / to the memory of / William RICH / who died at Plansfield, in this parish / the 4th day of June, A.D. 1825 / aged 74 years (PR: as aged 73) / Also Elizabeth, wife / of the above William Rich / who died January 18th? 1844 / aged 88 years (PR: as buried 27 Jan 1844, aged 88)”.

 

S10). Footstone (to a now lost headstone). “S.P. / 1880” (PR: clearly “Sarah PALMER” buried 11 April 1880, aged 66).

S11). Headstone. “Sacred / to the memory of / John LANDSEY, who died / August 23, 1844,

aged 76 / Also Sarah, wife of the / above, who died May 24th 1835 / aged 67 years”.

S12). Footstone. Illegible.

S13). Footstone (to a now lost headstone). “W.R.M. / 1849” (PR: clearly “William Rawlins MORLE” buried 29 March 1849, aged 30).

S14). Coped Stone. On north slope: “In affectionate remembrance of Sarah MORLE / who died Dec: 28, 1867, aged 72 years / Also Henry Morle, son of the above / who died Aug: 23, 1867, aged 37 years”. On south slope: “In memory of / Simon Morle / who died Jan: 10, 1877, aged 51 years”.

S15). Small Headstone. Illegible.

S16). Footstone (surmounted by a cross; now lying on the ground) (to a now lost headstone). “J.M. / 1878 / M.M. / 1879” (PR: clearly “John MORLE” buried 2 Feb 1878, aged 49; “Martha Morle” buried 20 Nov 1879, aged 45).

S17). Small Headstone. “In memory of / Phebe DYER, who died / November 29th 1860 / aged 80 years / Also / Robert Dyer / husband of the above / who died January 15th 1867 / aged 87 years”.

S18). Small Headstone (surmounted by a cross). “In memory of / Susan HILL / who fell asleep / Dec: 29, A.D. 1871 / aged 70 years”.

S19). Headstone (in Exmoor slate). “This / stone is erected as a / tribute of affection to / the memory of John WASHER / who depd: this life June 16 / 1839, aged 44 years, leaving / an affectionate wife and 4 / children to lament their loss / Also Sarah Whitefield / wife of the above, who depd: / this life July 19, 1871 / aged 68 years”.

 

W01). Headstone (surmounted by a cross) (fixed to the north wall of the north nave aisle). “In memory of / James HORSENALL / who lived 45 years / in the service of / P.C. LABOUCHERE, Esq: / of Hylands, Essex / and of his son / Henry Labouchere / Lord Taunton / died at Over Stowey / on the 29th Nov: 1870 / in the 69th year of his age / Lady Taunton has placed / this cross in memory of his / long and faithful service”.

W02). Coped Stone. On south slope: “Sacred / to the memory of James HUNT / who departed this life April 10th 1870 / aged 64 years”. On north slope: “In / loving memory of Ann Hunt / the beloved wife of James Hunt / who departed this life January 25th 1892 / aged 89 years”.

W03). Coped Stone (north slope is blank). On south slope: “In memory of / William CHEDGEY / who died Aug: 21, 1872, aged 61 years”.

W04). Coped Stone. On south slope (worn): “In loving memory of / Martha / the beloved wife of the late Thomas SULLY and daughter of / James and Ann HUNT, of Parsonage Farm, Over Stowey / who died Feb: … 190-, aged 66 years” (PR: “Martha Sully” buried 9 Feb 1904, aged 66). On north slope: “Elizabeth / daughter of James and Ann Hunt / who died 29 July 1916 / aged 76 years”.

W05). Coped Stone (north slope is blank). On south slope: “In loving memory of / George HUNT / who fell asleep in Jesus / Oct: 15, 1914, aged 65 years”.

W06). Headstone (at the head end of W05). “In loving memory / of / James HUNT / who died 22nd July 1909 / aged 65 years”.

W07). Headstone (lying on the ground face-upwards). Illegible.

W08). Small Headstone. “In / memory of / James VENN / who died Feb: 21, 1873 / aged 62 years”.

W09). Headstone (surmounted by a cross). “In / loving memory of / Thomas PARISH / of Over Stowey / who died April 27, 1881 / aged 84 years / Also of Ann / the beloved wife of the above / who died November 16, 1890 / aged 75 years”.

 

W10). Headstone (surmounted by a cross). “In memory of / Mary HASTE / who died Jan: 9, 1878 / aged 37 years”.

 

W11). Headstone. “In loving memory / of / Susan PALMER / died 15 Oct: 1879, aged 64 / Also / George Palmer / died 14 Dec: 1892, aged 74 / Also / Rosina, died 9 Sep: 1848, aged 3 / Also / George Jesse, died 23 Sep: 1848, aged 5 months / Also / Emily Helena, died 21 July 1862, aged 6 / Also / George Edmund, died in Liverpool / 14 April 1890, aged 40”.

W11a). On stone gate pier of the entrance into the churchyard (not given on the plan, but close to W11). “These gates were erected / in memory of / Elizabeth TITE (Nurse Lizzie) / district nurse in this parish / died 25th February 1906”.

W11b). Four metal Plates fixed to the iron gates into the churchyard, two on the south side and two on the north side (not given on the plan, but close to W11). “In memory of / Gladys BARROW / of Marsh Mill Farm”, “These gates / were erected by her / family and friends / November 1969”, “In memory of / Kenneth Barrow / of Marsh Mills”, “This lamp was renewed / by his family and friends / June 1978”.

W12). Large flat Ledger Stone. Illegible.

W13). Coped Stone. On south slope: “Sacred / to the memory of Thomas WARD / died February 5, 1854, aged 73 years” (also given on stained glass window inside the church, IN4). On north slope: “Also / in memory of Sarah Anne / the wife of Thomas Ward / who died August 6th 1869, aged 76 years” (PR: confirms this is correct).

 

W14). Lost memorial, recorded in Edmund Rack’s “Survey of Somerset”, of c1782-6 (Somerset Heritage Centre. A/AQP 7, fo.18). “On another tomb inclosed in a railing” (that is ‘another’ to that given on S01): “In memory of Wm: POOLE, of Marshmill in this parish, who dyed April 9, 1756, aged 60” (gap in PR: 1747–77).

W15). Rack (in source given for W14) says in c1782-6 “Here are headstones to the families of CRIDDLE, RICH, BLINMAN, STRITFOLD, TIPLINE, OLIVER, PORTER, VERNCOMB and ADAMS” (of which only ones for Criddle and Verncomb existed in 2000, only for Verncomb in 2016).

 

CHURCH INTERIOR

 

Memorials astericked “*” are given in John Collinson’s “History of Somerset” (1791), Vol.1, p.260 and Edmund Rack’s “Survey of Somerset” of c1782-6 (printed 2011 and Somerset Heritage Centre, A/AQP 7, fos.17 & 18). The code letters “IN” precede the numbers of memorials.

 

Over Stowey church comprises a chancel, nave, north choir aisle, north nave aisle, west tower, south porch and north vestry. There are no memorials in the south porch and north vestry. The west tower is 15th century Perpendicular, but the remainder of the church was largely rebuilt in 1840 and 1857, though retaining some earlier features such as the chancel arch, the arcade between the nave and north nave aisle and Tudor bench ends.

 

Chancel

 

IN1). Stained glass east window (also repeated on a brass plate on the east wall). “To the glory of God and in memory / of the Revd: Willm: Beadon BULLER, M.A., Vicar / who died on St Stephens Day (26 Dec) 1855”.

IN2). Two small Brass Plates either side of the reredos on the east wall. “To the glory of God and in memory of their / dear son, Henry Thomas STANLEY / who was killed in action at Hek Poort / S. Africa, this chancel was lengthened and / the cross in the churchyard erected by / his grieving father and mother / Edward James and / Mary Dorothy Stanley (no date, but this was in 1902)”.

IN3). Brass Plate below stained glass south window. “To the glory of God & in memory of Henry Thomas STANLEY / Lieutenant, West Somerset Yeomanry & 25th Company, Imperial Yeomanry / who fell in action at Hek Poort, Transvaal, September 16th 1900 / This window is erected by the tenantry of the Quantock Estate”.

IN4). Stained glass south window. “In memory of Thomas WARD / who died Feby: 5th 1854, aged 73 years”.

IN5). Brass Plate below stained glass north window (no date, c1902). “In memory of Henry Thomas STANLEY, who died / for his country at Hek Poort, S. Africa, this window was / placed by Sir A. and the Hon: Lady ELLIS, Earl and Countess / of St Germans, Capt: and Mrs: H. AMORY and Mr: E.A.V. Stanley”.

IN6). Large Brass Plate, mounted on grey marble, on the south wall (with coat of arms). “In memory / of / Henry Thomas STANLEY / Lieutenant, West Somerset Yeomanry / and / 25th Company, Imperial Yeomanry / who was killed in action at / Hekpoort, Transvaal / September 16th 1900, aged 27 / This tablet is placed here / by his brother officers / as a token of affection / and esteem, for one who was beloved / by all ranks of the regiment”.

IN7). Small Brass Plate on the south wall. “In proud and loving memory of / Richard Valentine Cleeve MARTYN / Captain, 7/6th Rajputana Rifles / killed in action in Malaya, 16th Jan: 1942 / aged 24, eldest son of Dr: V.C. Martyn, M.C. / and Mrs: Martyn, of Overstowey”.

IN8). Stone Tablet on south wall (with coat of arms). “Sacred / to the memory of / P.C. LABOUCHERE, Esqre: / of Hylands, in the county of Essex / who died Janry: 16th 1839 / aged 68 years / This tablet is erected by his sons / Henry and John Labouchere / Also to the memory of / Dorothy Elizabeth Labouchere / his wife and daughter of / Sir Francis BARING, Bart: / of Stratton Park, in the county of Hants / She died on the 15th May 1859, aged 88”.

IN9). Large Brass Plate, mounted on grey marble, on the north wall. “In loving and everlasting / memory of / Mary Dorothy STANLEY / eldest daughter of / Henry LABOUCHERE / Lord Taunton / and of his wife / Frances / youngest daughter of / Sir Thomas BARING, Bart: / and widow of / Edward James Stanley / born May 22nd 1842 / died March 15th 1920 / This tablet is erected / by her surviving children / Evelyn Mary and / Edward Arthur Vesey”.

IN10). Small Brass Plate on the north wall (no date, c1980). “The electric blower / to the organ was given / in happy memory of / Ethel CRAWFORD”.

IN11). Plastic Plaque on metal flower stand. “In memory of / Dorothy Anne ANDERSON /

died 8. 1. (19)90”.

 

Nave

 

IN12). Stained glass south window. “To the glory of God and in memory / of Anne WARD, born 1815, died 1906 / This window was placed by her / many relations and friends”.

IN13). Stained glass south window. “To the glory of God and in memory / of Edward James STANLEY, born / Decr: 16th 1826, died Septr: 28th 1907”.

IN14). WAR MEMORIAL, 1939 – 1945, in the form of a grey marble tablet on the south wall:

Henry W. GRANDFIELD; Arthur T. HUGHES; Richard V.C. MARTYN.

IN15). White on black marble Tablet, high up on the south wall, above the south door (fortunately there is a light over this, illuminating it). “Sacred to the memory of / the Revd: William LEWIS / Perpetual Curate / of St Michael Church, in this county / and Curate of this parish / He died March 5, 1804, aged 53 years / Also of Ann, his wife / daughter of / John DRAKE, Esquire, M.D. / of the city of Wells / She died Septr: 8, 1835, aged 85 years / And of their son / Edward Urch Lewis / who died May 24, 1792, aged 3 years / Also of their daughter / Ann Drake Lewis / who died February 14, 1836 / aged 50 years / This monument / to perpetuate their memory / is erected by their affectionate / daughter and sister / Elizabeth Urch / wife of / Edward SEALY, Esquire / of Bridgwater”.

IN16). White on black marble Tablet high up on the north wall (at the west end). “Sacred / to the memory of / Edmund SHEPPARD, Esqr: / of Hutton Court, in this county / who departed this life / the 8th of September 1816 / aged 48 years / and whose remains are interred at / Banwell / Also of Mary Anne, his wife / who died the 26th of December 1833 / aged 55 years / and is buried beneath this / tablet”.

IN17). WAR MEMORIAL, 1914 – 1918, in the form of a large brass plate, mounted on grey marble, on the north wall (below the last memorial) (Albert Phillips is given at the end for some reason, re-arranged): John Edward BROWN, Capt: R.F.A.; Geoffrey Thos: Wye GRANDFIELD, Pte: 1/8 Middlesex; Henry GRANDFIELD, L/C, R.T.C.; Henry HARRISON, Pte: 5/ Wilts; Albert PHILLIPS, Gnr: R.G.A.; Samuel RICH, Pte: 1/5 D.C.L.I.; William Thomas TROUT, Pte: 1/5 Devons.

 

IN18)* Floorslab (this was in the chancel, c1782-6 and 1791). “Hic jacet corpus Johannis SELLECK / hujus parochiae nup: Rectoris, qui / obiit 24 die Februarii Anno / Domi: 1657, aetat 80” (John Selleck, Rector, died 24 Feb 1657, aged 80).

IN19). Floorslab (on a border round the edge, worn in places): “Heare lyeth the body of Richard / WELSHE, some tymes of Carhamton, who departed this life in ……… / the 2? of ….. / An: D: 1637 …………….” (in the centre is a biblical quote) (PR: “Richard WALSHE” buried 24 Jan 1637-8).

 

IN20). Floorslab. “In memory of Anthony HOWARD / of Lantrithid in Glamorgan, Gent: / who dyed May ye 31st 1688 / (3 lines of biblical text)”.

 

IN21)* Floorslab. “Here lyeth / the bodye of / Humfry BLAKE / of Overstowey / clothier / deceased, who / was buried the / XX (20) day of March / Anno Domini / 1619 / Also Ann, the wife of Hum / fry Blake, was here interred / December ye 11, 1645”.

 

IN22)* Two-tier brass Chandelier, inscribed: “The gift of Thos: RICH, Gent: of Cross in this parish, 1775, made by Street & Pyke, of Bridgewater”.

 

IN23). Brass Lectern, inscribed: “To the / glory of God / in memory of / Mary (LABOUCHERE) / Lady Taunton / obt: 17 September 1892”.

 

IN24). Plastic Plaque on metal flower stand: “In memory of / Kenneth Eric DENMARK / 1988”.

 

 

North Choir Aisle

(now arranged as a meeting room. On the north wall is a large patchwork wall hanging, with names of inhabitants with dates of 1991 – 2000)

 

IN25). Stained glass east window. “To the memory of Henry LABOUCHERE, Lord Taunton / This window was dedicated by his children, 1870”.

 

 

IN26). Large Brass Plate on east wall. “To the glory of God and to the / beloved memory of the Rt: Honble: / Henry LABOUCHERE, Baron Taunton / born Augst: 15th 1797, died July 13th 1869 / This tablet is erected by Mary, his wife / in this church, which he restored / Also in memory of the Right / Honble: Mary Matilda Georgiana / Lady Taunton, youngest daughter of / George, 6th Earl of Carlisle, K.G. / born Jan: 28th 1823, died Sept: 17th 1892”.

 

 

North Nave Aisle

(in the south west corner is a framed and glazed paper list of Vicars of Over Stowey – names not recorded - and a ‘Rogues Gallery’ of photographs of various Vicars)

 

 

IN27). Stained glass north window. “To the glory of / God and in loving and / grateful memory of / Mary Dorothy STANLEY / wife of Edward James / Stanley and eldest / daughter of the first / Baron Taunton, born / May 22nd 1842, died March / 15th 1920”.

 

 

IN28). Brass Plate below stained glass north window. “To the glory of God and in memory of / Henry ROBERTSON, who died Feb: 24, 1883”.

 

 

IN29). Brass Plate below stained glass west window. “This window is dedicated to the / loved memory of Henry LABOUCHERE / Lord Taunton, by Mary, his wife, in / the year of our Lord MDCCCLXXIV (1874)”. On a brass plate, mounted on wood, below the last: “This William Morris window was restored in 1984 / from the donations of parishioners / and the family of Dirom CRAWFORD”.

IN30). Large white on grey marble Monument, on the north wall, with a draped sarcophagus at the top and a ‘trophy’ at the bottom of “plough, harrows and other tools of the field” (as described by Pevsner). “To the memory of Thomas and James RICH, Esquires, of Cross, in this parish / sons of Samuel and Betty Rich, and grandsons of Samuel and Joan Rich / Thomas died on the 7th day of April, A.D. 1843, aged 78 / James died on the 15th day of April, A.D. 1845, aged also 78 / In the course of their lives they both contributed by their benefactions to ornament and improve / this church, who were possessed of a large property, the whole of which on the death of Thomas / devolved on James, the younger brother, who by his will amply provided for many of his nearest / relations and gave suitable legacies to his friends and his servants. He also gave five hundred pounds / to trustees, the annual income by which is to be distributed under the direction of the minister, churchwardens / and overseers to the poor (or the major part of them) among the poor inhabitants of this parish not having / received for themselves or their children parochial relief during the year preceeding. He also gave one hundred pounds / to trustees, the annual income of which is to be applied under the direction of the minister & churchwardens / to the support of the Sunday school in this parish and finally he directed the remainder of his property / amounting to upwards of twenty thousand pounds to be equally distributed amongst all the descendants of / his grandfather, Samuel Rich, who were living at the time of his death, by which act of considerate (sic) / justice he benefited more than two hundred individuals”.

 

IN31). White on black marble Tablet, in the form of an open book, on north wall (with coat of arms). “Sacred / to the memory of / the Revd: William HOLLAND, M.A. / second son of / John Holland, Esquire / of Teyrden, Denbighshire / Rector of / Monkton Farleigh, Wiltshire / and thirty nine years / Vicar of this parish / who died on the 17th day of / April 1819 / aged 72 / Also / of Mary, his wife / second daughter / of the late / Revd: William DODWELL, D.D. / Archdeacon of Berks / and Canon Residentiary / of Salisbury / who died on the 29th day / of January 1833 / in the 83rd year / of her age” (Revd: William Holland kept a diary, which has been published).

 

IN32). Brass Plate fixed to floorslab (clearly the entrance to a vault). “Henry LABOUCHERE / Lord Taunton / born / Aug: 15th / 1797 / died / 13 July / 1869”.

 

 

West Tower

 

IN33). Stained glass west window. “E.J.S. / Sept: 19, 1872 / M.D.S.” (Edward James and Mary Dorothy STANLEY).

 

IN34)* Stone Tablet high up on the north wall (on the south wall of the nave c1782-6 and 1791). Much of this is now illegible, but fortunately it was recorded by Rack, c1782-6 and Collinson, 1791, with approximately the correct wording. (I was able to read the details for the second person, which I can confirm are correct, whilst PR: confirms that the first person is correct). “Underneath this monument lieth the body of John BLAKE, jun: of Court House, in this parish, Gent: who departed this life May 2, 1723, aged 32. Here also lieth the body of John RICH, Gent: who died the 11th of May 1747, aged 33” (Rack and Collinson say it has a coat of arms on it, though I don’t think that is correct).

 

 

Vanished Church Interior memorial (recorded by Rack c1782-6 and Collinson, 1791)

 

 

IN35)* Small marble Tablet on north wall of the chancel. “In memory of Sarah WICKHAM, wife of Thomas Wickham, Vicar of this parish, who died May 19, 1717, aged 33” (PR: “Mrs: Sarah Wickham”, buried 24 May 1717).

CEMETERY

 

Over Stowey Cemetery, administered by the Parish Council, is located about 100 metres north-west of Over Stowey parish church. It was opened in 1882, with a west extension added in 1909. This extension is nearly full. It looks as if a further extension, further west, will soon come into use. I have not prepared a plan, but have recorded memorials in rows from east to west, first in the original cemetery and then in the west extension. On the roadside is a lych gate, which has an inscription on it, and then there is a straight central asphalt pathway running through to the far end, where there is a gate. In the middle of the original cemetery, there is a tall uninscribed cross on three stepped base. There is a thick hedge, with an opening in it, between the two portions of the cemetery. None of the people buried here are given in the church burial register, so it must have it’s own separate register, which has not been deposited at the Somerset Heritage Centre, Taunton. The code letters “CM” precede the numbers of memorials.

 

Original cemetery

 

CM1). Inscribed on east side of the lych gate. “Edward / Leighton / ELWES / Vicar / 1879 – 1887”.

CM2). Coped Stone. On south slope (worn): “Sacred to the memory of / Sarah Anne WARD / who died January 23, 1906, aged 90”. On north slope: “(two lines of verses) / Also Kate Ward, (no date), aged 99 / interred at Wolvercott Cemetery, Oxford”.

CM3). Coped Stone (north slope just has verses). On south slope: “Sacred to the memory of / Susan WARD / who died April 13th 1898, aged 84”.

CM4). Coped Stone (south slope is blank). On north slope: “To the dear memory of / Thomas Poole WARD / born May 27th 1820 / passed away June 29th 1906”.

CM5). Cross and kerb. Impossible to record as the trunk of a large holly tree is right in front of the inscription.

CM6). Cross and kerb. “Sacred / to the memory of / Mary Isabella WARD / born 8th May 1823 / died 10th June 1908”.

CM7). Cross and kerb. “Sacred / to the memory of / Jane / widow of / Thomas Poole WARD / passed away / February 13th 1917”.

CM8). Headstone (surmounted by a cross). “In / loving memory of / Henry GRANDFIELD / who died 10 April 1901 / aged 92 years / Also of Elizabeth / widow of the above, who passed / peacefully away 8 August 1907 / aged 85 years”.

CM9). Headstone. “In loving memory / of / John GRANDFIELD / died Nov: 6th 1902 / aged 77 years / Also / Anne Grandfield / died Dec: 4th 1907 / aged 88 years”.

CM10). Dismantled Cross. “In / loving memory of / Eliza PALMER / the beloved wife of / Edwin Palmer / who passed peacefully away / March 2nd 1919, aged 73 / Also of / Edwin Palmer / her beloved husband / died Jany: 23rd 1922 / aged 76 years”.

CM11). Headstone. “In loving memory of / Mary GRANDFIELD / who died March 26th 1904 / aged 69 years / Also of / Thomas Grandfield / husband of the above, and for 39 / years Sexton of this parish / who died December 17th 1905 / aged 67 years / Also of Ann RHODES, sister of / Mary Grandfield / who died February 8th 1912 / aged 82 years”.

CM12). Headstone (surmounted by a cross). “In / loving memory of / James PALMER / who died 3 July 1900, aged 48 / Erected by his loving wife / Lucy Ann Palmer”.

CM13). Headstone. “In / loving memory / of / Henry PALMER / who died April 30th 1906 / aged 79 years / Also of / Elizabeth / his beloved wife / who died Oct: 16th 1893 / aged 63 years”.

 

CM14). Cross. “In loving memory of / Janet Bayne BOUSIE / who died July 14th 1909 / aged 87 years / Also of Archibald Bousie / husband of the above / who died Dec: 20th 1910 / aged 89 years / for many years / Churchwarden of this parish”.

 

CM15). Headstone. “In loving memory of / David PALMER / who departed this life / Jan: 7th 1907, aged 67 years / Also of / Elizabeth, his beloved wife / who died April 16th 1924 / aged 83 years / Also of / Henry PERRY / their loving son-in-law / who died Dec: 13th 1905 / aged 54 years”.

CM16). Headstone. “In / loving memory / of / David SELLICK / who died May 1st 1896 / aged 82 / Also Elizabeth, his beloved wife / who died Feby: 2nd 1902, aged 82 / Also Edwin Sellick, their son / who died May 30th 1899, aged 48 / Also Amelia BEER, their daughter / who died Decr: 5th 1893, aged 35 / Also Elizabeth Rowe HITCHINS / daughter of the above / David and Elizabeth Sellick / who died Oct: 9th 1922 / at Victoria, B.C., Canada, aged 65”.

CM17). Coped Stone (south slope is blank). On north slope: “To the dear and honoured memory of / William Crofton HEMMONS / who died March 11th 1915 / And of Blanche Rachel, his wife / who died August 25th 1905”.

CM18). Small Headstone. “In / loving memory of / Edward / son of William and / Lily CAVILL / who died Jan: 24th 1910 / aged 10 months”.

CM19). Headstone (surmounted by a cross) and kerb. “In / loving memory / of / Frederick James PALMER / who died April 4th 1905 / aged 28 years / This is erected by his sorrowing wife”.

CM20). Cross. “In / loving memory / of / Harry Arscott SUMMERS / who died November 25th 1906 / aged 34 years / Also Mary Jane, sister of the above / who died July 25th 1960, aged 92 years”.

CM21). Headstone (surmounted by a cross). “In / loving memory / of / William BIFFIN / who died Jan: 3rd 1908 / aged 71 years / Also of / Sophia Biffin / who died Jan: 24th 1905 / aged 74 years / Erected by their loving children”.

CM22). Kerb. “In loving memory of / Hannah PHILLIPS, died Dec: 4th 1934 / Also of her beloved husband, John Phillips, died Dec: 16th 1934”.

CM23). Headstone (surmounted by a cross) (leaning backwards). “In / memory of / Emma MOGG / of Blindwell House / who died 19 Sep: 1896 / aged 58 years”.

CM24). Headstone (surmounted by a cross). “In loving memory of / Mary Anne DAVIS / the affectionate wife of / William Davis, of Adscombe / who entered into rest 11 Oct: 1885 / aged 60 years / Also of William Davis, who died / 20 Aug: / 1894, aged 67 years” (the inscription of the date and age for this second person is on the right-hand edge and then on the back of the stone).

CM25). Dismantled Cross and kerb. “In loving memory of / Elizabeth / the beloved wife of / Richard WEBBER / who died Nov: 28, 1909 / aged 61 years / Also of the above named / Richard Webber / who died July 25, 1913, aged 63 years”.

CM26). Massive block Headstone (with inscriptions on three curiously located panels). On first panel: “Susanna / wife of the late / William APPLEBY / of Manchester / (died) July 17th 1933”. On second panel: “Also of / Maud Helen / daughter of / William & Susanna / Appleby / (died) July 2nd 1956”. On third panel: “Also of Ethel / RAVENSBERG / daughter of / William & Susanna / Appleby / (died) August 6th 1968”.

CM27). Massive Celtic Cross and kerb. “In remembrance of / John Lovell HURMAN / (born) September 9th 1846 / (died) December 18th 1911 / Also / Mary LOVELL / (born) Sept: 8, 1860 / (died) April 18, 1944 / Also / Lovell Wilson Hurman / (born) May 21st 1890 / (died) July 10th 1907”.

CM28). Cross. “Eliza ADAMS / who died October 14th 1886 / aged 80 years / Also in memory of / her husband / Robert Adams / who died / February 25th 1887 / aged 68 years”. (close to this is a headstone lying face-downwards, impossible to record).

CM29). Headstone (inscription damaged). “Mar……. OX / died No…er (November) 4, 1885 /

aged 50” (not given in church burial register, her name was probably Mary COX) (beside this is a dismantled cross and kerb, the inscription being very deep beneath the ground, impossible to record).

CM30). Cross. “Martha WESTCOTT / died 30 Jan: 1890 / aged 52”.

CM31). Headstone. “In / loving memory / of / Lancelot / Edney TRAPNELL / died May 7th 1890 / aged 53 years / Also of William / son of the above / died January 2nd 1905 / aged 29 years / deeply mourned by wife and / children, mother, brothers and / sisters, by whom this stone is / erected”.

CM32). Dismantled Cross. “Arthur William WEBBER / who fell asleep / October 24th 1902 / aged 11 years”.

CM33). Headstone. “In / loving / memory of / Sophia VENN / who entered into rest / 21 March 1892, aged 72 years”.

CM34). Headstone (surmounted by a cross). “In / loving memory / of / Henry SUTTON / the beloved father of / Anne REID / who departed this life Augst: 27th 1888 / aged 76 years” (beside this is a cross which has fallen face-downwards, impossible to record).

CM35). Headstone (surmounted by a cross), with an uninscribed coped stone in front of it. “Thomas REID / born Feb: 1, 1836, died Feb: 18, 1884 / He lived for 25 years in the household of / Edward James STANLEY and M. Stanley / by whom this monument is erected to the / memory of a true and faithful friend”.

CM36). Celtic Cross and kerb. “Henry ROBERTSON / died Febry: 24th 1883 / aged 61 / And of Catherine Eleanor Robertson / died June 8th 1890 / aged 71 years”.

CM37). Cross. “In / loving memory of / Henry BURROWS / who died 6th November 1899 / aged 69 years / Also of / Emma Burrows / who died 22nd June 1906 / aged 70 years”.

 

West Extension

 

CM38). Headstone and kerb. “In / loving memory of / Henrietta CAVILL / who died June 20, 1932 / aged 59 years / Also of her husband / Herbert Cavill / who died May 3, 1942 / aged 66 years”.

CM39). Flower Holder. “Uncle / Bill SLOCOMBE / 1906 – 1980”.

CM40). Headstone and kerb. “In / loving memory / of / Henry WEBBER / who entered into rest / November 4th 1925, aged 68 years / Also / Ellen Webber / his beloved wife / who fell asleep / November 7th 1926 / aged 67 years”.

CM41). Headstone and kerb. “In / loving memory / of / Charlotte BRIFFETT / who died March 28, 1922 / aged 77 years / And / her sister / Maria BROWNING / who died October 14, 1941 / aged 91 years”.

CM42). Kerb. “In loving memory of / Harriet Agnes ABEL, widow of the late William Edward Abel / of New Wandsworth (Surrey), in her 93rd year, (died) Dec: 3rd 1922”.

CM43). Block Headstone and kerb. “In loving memory of / Alice SHEPHERD / died January 3rd 1936 / aged 67 years”.

CM44). Headstone and small Flatstone. On headstone: “Francis William GULLICK / B.C.L., M.A. / died 9th April 1958, aged 79 / And his wife / Hilda Helen Selina / died 26th June 1970 /

aged 88”. On flatstone: “Francis William / Gullick / born 27 Aug 1878 / died 9 April 1958”.

CM45). Sloping Stone. Remembered / with love / Ernest G. E. / FITZ-OWEN / died / 9th March 1967 / aged 65 years / Also his wife / Margaret / died 5th Feb: 1993 / aged 91 years”.

CM46). Sloping Stone (with flower holder in it). Dennis William / James SAUNDERS / died 28th August 1967 / aged 31”.

CM47). Sloping Stone (with flower holder in it). “In loving memory of / Edward SAUNDERS / died 30th October 1971 / aged 74 years / Mildred Beatrice / beloved wife of the above / died 1st July 1977, aged 82”.

CM48). Headstone. “In / loving memory of / a dear wife and mother / Gladys BARROW / died 13 Nov 1969, aged 57 / Also of / a beloved husband / and father / Kenneth Barrow / died 13 Jan 1978, aged 63”.

CM49). Headstone. Peter Richard GUERIN SOLBE / Metropolitan Police / beloved son of Richard & Freda / Guerin Solbe / husband of Sheila / father of Paul & Gillian / called to higher service / March 8th 1971 / aged 30”.

CM50). Headstone. “In loving memory / of / Tracy BARROW / beloved daughter / of Pauline / and Arthur / and sister of Ian / who fell asleep / 26th Nov: 1973 / aged 5 years”.

CM51). Headstone. “Richard Frank de Lisle / GUERIN SOLBE / marine engineer / beloved husband of / Evelyn Freda and / father of Peter and / John Solbe / died at Stevenage / April 3rd 1974, aged 71”.

CM52). Small Flatstone. “In / loving memory / of / Christine Mary / GARRAWAY / 1914 – 1975”.

CM53). Headstone. “In memory of / Philip Coney / SWAYNE / died 16th July 1968 / aged 90 / And his wife / Vere May / Swayne / died 5th December 1976 / aged 88”.

 

CM54). Headstone. “In memory of / Ada H. Garrus / HUGHES / died 1953 / Also her son / Dr: Henry N. / Garrus, M.A. / died 23 Dec 1986”.

CM55). Headstone. “In memory of / Graeme Neil GAMBLE / dearly loved husband / father and grandfather / born 18 May 1904 / died 15 April 1980 / And Mary, his wife / born 18 April 1916 / died 23 January 2010”.

CM56). Headstone. “In / loving memory of / Cicely Mary / widow of / James Trevor / MATCHETT / died 24th April 1977 / aged 90 years / And of their son / Charles Paul / Trevor Matchett / died July 14th 1983 / aged 74 years”.

CM57). Headstone. “In / loving memory of / Frederick PALMER / died 28th Dec: 1968 / aged 56 / Harold Palmer / died 14th Feb: 1982 / aged 67 / Elsie May Palmer / died 19th Feb: 2005 / aged 84”.

CM58). Headstone (in white marble, scrubbed clean). “Cherished memories / of / my parents / John CHILCOTT / died 1st Nov: 1966 / and / Lydia Chilcott / died 6th July 1979 / And my brother / Norman / died 5th Nov: 1966 / Of Halsey Cross Farm / Over Stowey”.

CM59). Displaced Headstone (leaning against the north boundary wall). “In ever loving memory of / my dear wife / Amy Eliza SALVAGE / who died 30th March 1956 / aged 68 years”.

CM60). Coped Stone (north slope is blank). On south slope (in two columns): “In loving memory / of / Albert JOWETT, D.Sc., / who died on April 8, 1959 / aged 83 years / Also of / Lilias Annie Jowett, B.A., / who died on January 6, 1965 / aged 82 years”.

CM61). Low Headstone and Kerb. On headstone: “Sacred to the memory of / a dear husband and father / John PAYNE / died 24th June 1959 / aged 78”. On kerb: “Also of his wife, Bessie / who died 1st October 1966 / aged 71 years”.

CM62). Headstone and kerb. “Treasured memories of / our beloved daughter and sister / Heather Shane COOK / who died tragically on 30th October 1977 / aged 17 years”.

CM63). Headstone and kerb. “In loving memory of / a devoted wife and mother / Florence E. COOK / died 9th July 1966 / aged 71 / And of her husband / Charles C. Cook / died 30th April 1990 / aged 93”.

CM64). Sloping Stone. “In loving / memory of / dad & / grandad / George / PALMER / died 8th Jan: / 1960 / aged 84”.

CM65). Cross and Kerb. On cross: “In / loving memory / of / Francis Charles NEWBERY / priest / Hon: Canon of / St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow / who died on 24th Nov: 1949 / aged 80 years”. On kerb: “Also Mabel Elizabeth, wife of Francis Newbery / who died 14th May 1952, aged 74 years”.

CM66). Sloping Stone and kerb (with uninscribed cross at the head end) (almost illegible). “In loving memory of / Helen Marjorie WILSON / eldest daughter of / Sydney John and Helen Wilson / who died August 12th 1969 / aged 71 years”.

CM67). Headstone. “In / loving memory of / Edward George / SEALE / died 21st March 1971 / aged 99 years / And / Beatrice May / Seale / died 4th June 1982 / aged 84 years” (alongside this is a headstone which has fallen face-down onto it’s kerb, too heavy to lift, impossible to record).

CM68). Headstone and kerb. “In / loving memory of / Herbert HAM / passed peacefully away 13th January 1963 / aged 84 / Also of his dear wife / Elizabeth Ham / passed peacefully away 8th August 1971 / aged 85”.

CM69). Open Book. “In loving memory of / Edmund / VILLIS / died 15th Sept: 1951 / aged 49 / Dorothy Alice / May Villis / died 29th Oct: 1985, aged 82”.

CM70). Headstone and kerb. “In loving memory of / Kate HILL / who died Jan: 15th 1952 / aged 67”.

CM71). Headstone. “Ben Coombe HARRIS / born 10. 5. 1885 – died 22. 12. 1954”.

 

CM72). Headstone. “In / loving memory of / Sidney John TROUT / died 25th April 1950 / aged 8 / Also of / Vera Irene Trout / died 24th Jan: 1982 / aged 72 / Also of / beloved husband and father / Jack Trout / died 7th Oct: 1982 / aged 76”.

 

CM73). Cross and kerb. “in / loving memory / of / Valentine Cleeve MARTYN / M.C., Capt: R.A.M.C. / born 8th Oct: 1884 / Medical Superintendant / Quantock Sanitorium 22 years / died 1st March 1949 / And of his wife, Kathleen Mary / born 1st March 1892, died 17th Jan 198-“ (leadwork of last digit of her year of death is missing; it has four vacant holes, which could be anything really).

CM74). Small Flatstone and Brass Plate on wooden bench adjacent. On flatstone: “Cecil Charles / HARRIS / 1895 – 1949 / Vera Mary / Harris / 1897 – 1986”. On brass plate: “This seat is given / in memory of / Cecil Charles Harris / born 1895, died 1949”.

CM75). Headstone. “In / loving memory of / our dear parents / Stanley Forcey / STONE / died 13 July 1964 / aged 81 / Lillian Maud / died 5 March 1978 / aged 80”.

CM76). Flower Holder. “In / loving / memory of / Edith / STANBURY / 1891 – 1960”.

CM77). Headstone. “In memory of / our dear parents / Amy Eliza SALVAGE / died 30th March 1956 / aged 68 / and / Ernest Salvage / died 15th February 1978 / aged 88” (beside this is an uninscribed concrete kerb).

CM78). Headstone. “In / loving memory of / John RICH / died April 9th 1958 / aged 77 years / Also / Florence / wife of the above / died March 27th 1960 / aged 65 years”.

CM79). Headstone. “In / loving memory / of / Mary Jane PALMER / died 24th April 1943 / aged 65 years / Also of her beloved husband / Jesse Palmer / died 24th February 1964 / aged 84 years”.

CM80). Headstone and kerb. “In / loving memory of / Beatrice Ann TUCKER / who was suddenly called home on July 28th 1941”.

CM81). Headstone. “In loving memory of / Evelyn SUMMERS / who died April 19th 1962 / aged 82 years”.

CM82). Kerb. “In loving memory of Thomas Bertram HECTOR, who died September 27th 1942 / aged 49 years”.

CM83). Small Open Book (with an angel peering over the top). “In / loving memory / of / Albert John / DAVIS / born 22 May 1901 / died 11 April 1953 / And of his / beloved wife / Stella May / Davis / born 12 Apr: 1904 / died 21 Jan: 1984”.

CM84). Headstone. “In / loving memory of / our beloved parents / Ruben GARDNER / died 7th Nov: 1966 / aged 66 / and of / Edna Beatrice / died 19th Oct: 1974 / aged 70”.

CM85). Headstone and kerb. “In loving memory of / a dear husband and father / William WILKINS / passed away Feb: 5th 1947 / aged 75 years / Also of / his beloved wife / Eliza / passed away August 1st 1961 / aged 93 years”.

CM86). Headstone (fallen on the ground face-upwards). “In ever / loving memory of / Lily WILKINS / wife of James Wilkins / died October 13th 1940 / aged 68 years / Also of / James Wilkins / her beloved husband / died September 10th 1954 / aged 84 years”.

CM87). Dismantled Cross. “In / loving memory / of / Elizabeth Ann HIPPERSON / died August 10th 1942 / aged 83”.

CM88). Headstone. “In loving memory of / our dear parents / William Salter DOBLE / died 27th Dec: 1957, aged 55 / and / Evelyn Blackmore Doble / died 7th July 1956, aged 56”.

CM89). Flower Holder. “William / ACKLAND” (no date, c1960).

CM90). Flower Holder. “Georgina / ACKLAND” (no date, c1960).

CM91). Small Headstone. “Anthony PALMER / died Dec: 21st 1930 / aged 80 years / Sarah Palmer / died May 28th 1948 / aged 93 years”.

CM92). Flower Holder. “Ernest DUBIN” (no date, c1970).

CM93). Flower Holder. “George DUBIN” (no date, c1970).

CM94). Flower Holder. “Gladys DUBIN” (no date, c1960).

CM95). Flower Holder. “Samuel DUBIN” (no date, c1950).

CM96). Open Book and kerb. “In / loving memory / of / Alfred MOWER / born / 2nd February 1864 / died / 30th December 1944 / Alice Mary Mower / born / 30th August 1866 / died / 8th March 1949”.

CM97). Small Headstone. “In memory of / Reginald Willie / POTTER / died 2nd April 1954 / aged 43 / Also of / William W. / Potter / died 5th June 1961 / aged 82”.

CM98). Headstone. “In / loving memory of / Ernest H. KNIGHT / died 15th July 1948 / aged 59 / Ellen E. Knight / died 18th Sept: 1951 / aged 61 / Wallace F. Knight / died 4th April 1941 / aged 18”.

 

CM99). Headstone, Flower Holder and kerb. On headstone: “In loving memory of / Austin HASTE / who died May 22nd 1927 / aged 60 years / Also / Susan / his beloved wife / who died Jan: 27th 1940 / aged 74 years”. On flower holder: “From their / grandson / Edmund”.

CM100). Flower Holder. “Alice PURSEY / 1883 – 1961 / and her daughter / Violet BALDWIN /

1915 – 2002 / a dear mum & nan”.

CM101). Kerb. “Sacred to the memory of Emily KNIGHT (mother) / who fell asleep 12th July 1947, aged 78 years”.

CM102). Sloping Stone (in the form of a shield). “In / loving memory / of / Robert PAYNE / who passed away / January 17th 1934 / aged 77 years”.

CM103). Headstone. “In loving memory of / William HILL / who passed away / April 15th 1933,

aged 75 / Also / Lucy Hill / beloved wife of the above / who passed away / February 16th 1936, aged 75”.

CM104). Flower Holder. “Ellen Kate / CLITSOME / died 3. 5. 1931 / aged 69 / from her / children”.

CM105). Headstone and kerb. “In loving memory / of / Lilian Caroline Ann JONES / who died October 17th 1937 / aged 61 years”.

CM106). Kerb (with an uninscribed head end). “In loving memory of / Annie Maria SMITH, died Nov: 17th 1943”.

CM107). Headstone. “In loving / memory / of / John GLADDY / who fell asleep / Feb: 13th 1949 / aged 71 years / Also his wife / Grace Alice / who died Dec: 14th 1954 / aged 66 years”.

CM108). Headstone and kerb. “In / loving memory / of / Isabel Mary ROBERTSON / died April 23rd 1948”.

CM109). Celtic Cross. “In / loving memory of / Mary Jane COUSINS / passed away / at Marsh Mills House / on 26th Jan: 1949, aged 87 / Also her brother / Francis Edward / passed away / on 12th Feb: 1961, aged 81”.

CM110). Headstone. “In loving memory of / Louisa BIFFEN / died Feb: 4th 1923 / aged 62 years / Also / William Biffen / died Dec: 10th 1931 / aged 66 years”.

CM111). Celtic Cross. “In loving memory / Eleanor Eliza GAMBLE / widow of William Gamble, Esqr: J.P. / of St Helens, Lancashire / eldest daughter of / Alan KER, Esqr: J.P. of Greenock / died at Keenthorne House, Nether Stowey / on March 5th 1942, in her 91st year”.

CM112). Flower Holder. “William C. BINDING” (no date, c1930).

CM113). Headstone. “In / loving memory of / Ann TUCKER / who died August 23rd 1912 / aged 64 years / Also of / Richard Tucker / who died October 26th 1917 / aged 68 years”.

CM114). Large Celtic Cross and kerb. “In loving memory / of / George WHITLEY / (born) December 14, 1876 / (died) July 26, 1933”.

CM115). Headstone and kerb. “In loving memory of / the Reverend / E. Herbert SWEET-ESCOTT, M.A. / born Janry: 21st 1855 / died Janry: 23rd 1939 / Also of / Anna Frances, his wife / died Febry: 8th 1949”.

CM116). Headstone and kerb. “In loving memory of my dear / parents, Kate VILLIS / who died 14th Oct: 1930 / aged 69, also of Thomas Villis / who died 2nd June 1945, aged 82”.

CM117). Headstone. “In / loving memory of / George HUGHES / died 28th November 1940 / aged 73 years”.

CM118). Block Headstone. “Mary E. GRICE / who died Nov: 4, 1926 / aged 31 years”.

CM119). Small Obelisk on plinth. “In memoriam / Harry GRICE / died Jan: 20th 1922 / aged 42 years”.

CM120). Kerb. “In loving memory of / William Tucker VEYSEY / who fell asleep June 23, 1931, aged 70”.

CM121). Headstone. “To the dear memory / of / Thomas George GRANDFIELD / called to higher service / January 24th 1941 / aged 76 years / for 36 years Sexton of this parish / Also Florence Alice / wife of the above / who died June 3rd 1961 / aged 91 years”.

CM122). Headstone and kerb. “In loving memory / of / Isabelle GRANDFIELD / who passed away 27th August 1953, aged 58 / And / William Grandfield / who passed away 18th June 1973, aged 76”.

CM123). Service Headstone. “300539 Lance Cpl: / H. GRANDFIELD / Tank Corps / (died) 1st October 1918”.

CM124). Flower Holder. “In / loving memory / of / a dear mother / Ellen JONES” (no date, c1970).

CM125). Headstone and kerb. “In / loving memory of / Elsie Emma / beloved wife of Henry T. WALFORD / died 7th April 1950 / aged 59 years / Also / Henry Thomas Walford / husband of the above / died 16th December 1957 / aged 63 years”.

CM126). Headstone. “In loving memory of / my dear husband / Henry HILL / who passed away Nov: 27, 1929 / aged 52”.

CM127). Headstone and kerb. “In / loving memory of / Harriet WALFORD / who fell asleep Feb: 5th 1933, aged 82 / Also George Walford / husband of the above / who passed peacefully away / March 8th 1936, aged 85 / Their memories are loved and / cherished by their children”.

CM128). Headstone. “In / loving memory / of / Charles WILKINS / who died June 18th 1917 / aged 72 years / Also of / Elizabeth / his beloved wife / who died Nov: 27th 1924 / aged 79 years”.

CM129). Headstone. “In / loving memory of / our dear parents / Silas TROUT / died 25th Sept: 1940 / aged 71 / Elizabeth Trout / died 16th Jan: 1961 / aged 83 / And brother / James Trout / died 4th Nov: 1981 / aged 67”.

CM130). Headstone. “In / loving memory of / Francis John SAYER / 1880 – 1978 / And of Caroline, his wife / 1884 – 1970”.

CM131). Sloping Stone (in the form of a heart). “In / loving memory of / Dennis HARE / who died Nov: 28, 1940 / aged 19 years”.

CM132). Headstone and kerb. “In / loving memory of / Joyce Eileen SHERRAN / passed away Sept: 19th 1946 / aged 22 years / Joined by her mother / Phyllis May Sherran / on Dec: 20th 1990 / aged 90 years”.

CM133). Sloping Stone (in the form of a heart). “In loving memory of / Clara BURNETT / passed away May 15th 1948 / aged 76 years”.

CM134). Headstone. “In / loving memory / of / Jane TRAPNELL / died 22 Oct: 1973 / aged 88 years”.

CM135). Dismantled Cross. “In / loving memory / of / Sarah TRAPNELL / died November 9th 1940 / aged 94 years”.

CM136). Headstone and kerb. “In loving memory of / Mary SLOCOMBE / died Nov: 8, 1921, in her 58 year / Also Richard / husband of the above / died July 3, 1939, aged 73”.

CM137). Cross. “In / loving memory / of / Elizabeth WARE / who died April 4th 1919 / aged 78 years”.

CM138). Headstone and kerb. “In / loving memory / of / Charles CULVERWELL / of Adscombe, Over Stowey / who died suddenly on Jan: 2, 1915 / aged 60 years / Also of his wife / Emma Martha Culverwell / who died Nov: 11, 1946 / aged 94 years”.

CM139). Headstone. “In / loving memory of / Lucy / wife of the late James HUNT / died 18th June 1912 / aged 63”.

CM140). Flower Holder. “Joseph / L. SELLICK / died / Oct: 20, 1943 / Alice / May Sellick /

1896 – 1975”.

CM141). Flower Holder. “Sarah / A. SELLICK / died / Sep: 25, 1943”.

CM142). Flower Holder. “Horatio / L. SELLICK / died / Feb: 28, 1917”.

CM143). Small figure of an Angel on a plinth. “In / loving memory / of / Albert Geoffrey / third son of / J. & H. BOSLEY / who fell asleep / Jan: 18, 1914 / aged 17 years / Also of / Harriet Bosley / who departed this life / Dec: 5th 1910, aged 76 years”.

 

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