Saturday, 28 June 2025

Some Drawings of Funeral Monuments presumably by Henry Cheere in the Victoria and Albert Museum.








 







































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The Drawing Annotated 'Monument to Lord Carpenter'.

Lord Carpenter died in 1749.

Owlesbury near Winchester.


https://georgiangroup.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GGJ_2015_05_Smith.pdf







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Ref. 893311










The Monument to Sir Francis Molyneux Bart d.1741 and Lady Molyneux d. 1718.


Teversall, Nottinghamshire.








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The Monument is inscribed.

"In a Vault in this Church are deposited the

Remains of Sr FRANCIS MOLYNEUX Bart of this

Place, & of Dame DIANA his Wife the Daughter of

JOHN HOWE Esqr. of Langar in this County : She had

by Him 7 sons & 3 daughters, & departed this Life

ye 8th day of January in the year of our Lord 1718,

 in the 60th year of her Age; Sr FRANCIS died the 12th

day of March 1741, Aged 86 years.

Happy in the Conjugal not unhappy in the Parental

State, They ended their Days in Peace, & in full

Assurance of a Blessed Resurrection.

Sr CHARLES MOLYNEUX Bart fifth Son

& Heir put up this Monument to the

Memory of the Best of Parents".


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Of Tangential interest Sir John  Molyneux monument at Teversall













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