Alice Pitt. The Bust on the Rushout Monument Blockley, Part 6.

 continued from my previous post.

Part 6.

Alice Pitt (1651 - 1698).

wife of Sir James Rushout.

St Peter and St Paul, Parish Church of Blockley, Gloucestershire.

on the Mural Monument at the East End of the North Aisle.

Alice Pitt, daughter of Edmund Pitt of Sudbury Court, Harrow in Middlesex.

 

By the 15th of May 1664 she had married Edward Palmer, son of Geoffrey Palmer and his wife, Margaret Moore. The marriage was childless and Edward died in 1667, being buried at East Carlton on the 14th of August. 

 

Around 1670 Alice married Sir James Rushout Bart., son of fishmonger, John Rushout, and his wife, Abigail Godschalk.They were parents of five sons and four daughters.

The question remains as to who sculpted this and the other four busts on the Rushout Monument -

Rysbrack or Moore?

I am leaning towards Moore who inscribed the monument.

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