The Heneage Monuments at St Mary's Church, Hainton, Lincolnshire.

 

Under construction.

The Monument to George Heneage (d. 1731).

with busts of his two wives.

The bust of George Heneage is inscribed Burtuccini. F.

The bust of Elizabeth nee Hunloke (d.1735) is inscribed GB.

On the South wall of the Heneage Chapel at St Mary's Church, Hainton, Lincs.

On the left as we look at the monument -

The bust of Mary Petre, (died 1717) daughter of Lord Petre, Baron of Writtle, Essex. They had 3 children, George, William who died an infant, and Mary who died aged 14.

and on the right hand side -

The bust of his second wife Elizabeth Hunloke, died 1735. She was daughter of Sir Henry Hunloke and heiress of Francis Tyrwhit of Kettleby, Lincs. They had 9 children, 6 sons and 3 daughters, the second, Ursula died an infant.

The life and work of the sculptor Bertuccini is a mystery.

The are vague records of a Giulio Bertuccini / Bertaccini working in Parma -

There are two statues in the Chiesa della Madonna della Steccata in Parma.

Given the death of Elizabeth in 1735 it is fair to assume that the monument was put up after her death.

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The Bust of Sir George Heneage (1674 - 1731).

It is inscribed Bertuccini. F. under his left proper shoulder.

This is presumably Guido Bertuccini.

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The Bertucinni inscription.

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The bust of Elizabeth Heneage nee Hunloke (d. 1735).

with the inscribed initials GB

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Giulio Bertuccini (currently seeking information!)

Statues of La Fortezza and La Prudenza.

In the Chiesa della Madonna della Steccata in Parma, Italy.

https://catalogo.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/ricerca.v2.jsp?apply=true&decorator=layout_resp&view=list&percorso_ricerca=OA&fulltextOA=Baratta+Giovanni&locale=en

https://ia800300.us.archive.org/12/items/santamariadellas00test/santamariadellas00test.pdf

Andreas Charpentier / Andrew Carpenter - a Monument at Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire.

 

Post under construction.

Photographs here by the author September 2025 during a holiday / fact finding visit to Lincolnshire.

The Church is redundant and managed by the Church Conservation Trust. https://www.visitchurches.org.uk/

A fabulous case of benign neglect - beware the bat shit!

It is in a seldom visited church close to the east coast on the marshes of Lincolnshire, but well worth taking the time to the visit. Highly recommended.

The Monument to Charles Bertie (1683 - 1727) and his wife Mary (d. 1725).

All Saints Church, Theddlethorpe, Mabelthorpe, Lincolnshire.

The  monument with its two what can be described as late Baroque marble busts is inscribed byAndreas Charpentier / Andrew Carpenter (1677 - 1737).

The very impressive busts are slightly over life size.

He inherited Lindsey House, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea from his father in 1701.

He was MP for New Woodstock, Oxford  1705 - 08.

On 29 April 1714, he married Mary (d. 1725), daughter of Thomas Browne of Addlethorpe and widow of Nicholas Newcomen of Theddlethorpe. 

On the occasion of his marriage to the rich widow, Mary Newcomen,  he was described as ‘a gentleman remarkable for his adhesion to the loyal principles of his noble ancestors, both by father and mother, and [for] affection to her Majesty and the happy constitution in Church and state’(find source!).

The memorial to Nicholas Newcomen is also in the church.

After her death, on 13 February 1726, he married Mary Marshall, daughter of Rev. Henry Marshall of Rector of Orby and Salmonby, Lincs.

Neither marriage produced  any children and his estate went to his half-great nephew (the blind) Lord Albemarle Bertie (1720 - 65) the younger son of the Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster - and grandson of his half brother Robert.

For an useful brief biog. see -

https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/bertie-hon-charles-ii-1683-1727

For the family history see also - https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/02/597-bertie-of-grimsthorpe-castle-and.html

For the Bertie Family monuments in Church at Edenham, Lincolnshire by Henry Cheere and Henry Scheemakers  see  my posts -

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/11/monuments-in-church-at-edenham1.html

for the later monument by Charles Harris of the Strand  see

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/11/monuments-in-church-at-edenham-2.html

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/11/monuments-in-church-at-edenham-part-3.html

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/11/monuments-in-church-at-edenham-part-4.html

For an interesting, enthusiastic and informative film about the church at Theddlethorpe see -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAyvkbPzHBg

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Carpenter, was described by George Vertue as ‘a Man in his time esteemd for his Skill’ (Vertue III, 83). 

He was the most successful designer and modeller of lead garden figures in the generation between John Nost I and John Cheere.

His  early background is unknown, George Vertue, who knew him well, noted that ‘Charpentiere’ had been born between 1675 and 1677.

 He was probably a native of the French-speaking Netherlands. Carpenter told Vertue that he had been instructed in ‘the rudiments of drawing’ by the French academician, Peter Eude, who had later settled in Scotland (Vertue IV, 35). 

His origins are obscure but he was John Nost I’s principal assistant, engaged in modelling and carving over several years for Nost before he set up independently by Hyde Park Corner (Vertue III, 83). 

Carpenter’s name first appears in the rate-books in 1703, when he acquired premises in Portugal Row, Stone Bridge, Piccadilly close to the workshop of John van Nost I.

His early neighbours were predominantly French and included the Huguenot sculptor Henri Nadauld (1653 - 1724), the decorative painter Louis Laguerre and, from 1707 to 1714, and the ironsmith Jean Tijou. 

Later neighbours working at Hyde Park Corner included John Cheere, Thomas Carter I, William Collins, Richard Dickinson and Thomas Manning. 

J T Smith recorded that the Carpenter workshop stood on the site in Piccadilly later occupied by Egremont House.

Charles Wyndham, second Earl of Egremont (d.1763) of Petworth engaged Lancelot "Capability" Browne to design a garden at Egremont House, 94 Piccadilly, in London, now better known as the ‘In and Out’, the former home of the Naval and Military Club.

In 1756 Egremont bought the inn and buildings standing on the one-acre site overlooking Green Park, between White Horse and Half Moon Streets and backing onto Shepherd Market. The footprint shown by Rocque's map of 1746 has little changed since. For this he commissioned the architect Matthew Brettingham (d. 1769) senior to build a grand Palladian house. 

For Capability Brown work on the garden at Egremont House, Piccadilly see.

https://londongardenstrust.org/Brown/Egremont.htm#fig1

For Nadauld see - https://gunnis.henry-moore.org/henrymoore/sculptor/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=1930

1721/2  - Marble figures (transport only) and the bronzing of ‘three heads’for Chatsworth House to Chiswick House, Middx          untraced.

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The Monument to Sir John Thorneycroft in the Parish Church of Our Lady of Bloxham,.

Andreas Charpentier / Andrew Carpenter (1677 - 1737).

St Mary, Bloxham, Oxfordshire.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bwthornton/5731634616/in/photostream/

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Queen Anne (1665 - 1714).

Marble.

Height 198 cms

Leeds Art Gallery

Art UK website 

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/queen-anne-16651714-294975

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Meleager and his dog.

Lead

Height 161 cms

Victoria an Albert Museum.

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O40991/meleager-statue-carpenter-andrew/

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Mural Monument to Mary Newcomen.

Daughter of Nicholas Newcomen and his wife Mary (nee Browne) the daughter of  Thomas Browne of Addlethorpe, Lincs.

1694.

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I also visited St Lawrence Church at Snarford, Lincs to see the Tudor Monuments.

Also run by the Churches Conservation Trust.

https://www.visitchurches.org.uk/what-we-do/blog/tudor-tombs-the-colourful-monuments-at-st-lawrences-snarford

Monument in St Lawrence Parish Church Ludlow and another at All Saints Honington.

 

The slightly macabre marble monument to Theophilus Salway b. c 1699 d. 1760, St Lawrence Parish Church, Ludlow. 

Salway was a director of the Bank of England -see -The London Magazine; Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, 1741 page 203 and 1752 Volume 21, page 190.

Superb quality carving. 

The question here must be why was the child depicted with the elongated skull, which appears even more exaggerated on the Honington Monument?

Here suggested as probably designed and carved in the workshop of Sir Robert Taylor - 

c.1760. 

In Memory of

THEOPHILUS SALWEY ESQR

who was the eldest Son of EDWARD SALWEY ESQR

a Younger Son of Major RICHARD SALWEY

who in the last Century

sacrifiz’d all and every thing in his Power

in Suppport of publick Liberty and in Opposition to Arbitrary Power

the said THEOPHILUS SALWEY married

MARY the Daughter and Heiress of

ROBERT DENNET of Walthamstow in the County of Essex Esqr.

but left no Issue by her.

Obiit the 28th. of April 1760 Aetat, 61

Pro Rege Saepe Pro Republica Semper

There is a design in a book of drawings of monuments by Taylor in the Taylorian Institute in Oxford (see below)- which suggests that it is perhaps a preliminary design see my web post - 

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2025/06/sir-robert-taylors-designs-for-church.html

The design is more or less repeated with some variations on the monument to Joseph Townsend at All Saints Church Honington, Warwickshire.

The not great photographs of the Honington monument here lifted from - 

 https://www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/20595901041/in/photostream/

Used here until I can find time to visit myself 

The Honington Monument Joseph Townsend MP (1704 - 1763) of Honington Hall. Warwickshire.

Sir Henry Parker of Honington Hall (built 1668) died in 1713 and was succeeded by his grandson, who in 1737 sold the estate to Joseph Townsend. 

Townsend sat as an MP, and in 1744 married Judith Gore, the co-heiress of John Gore, MP for Grimsby. Following this marriage substantial alterations were made to the fronts and interior of the house. 

The series of busts of Roman emperors on the fronts of the house shown in a drawing by Thomas Robins of 1759 (V and A) were probably added by Townsend.

Formal gardens illustrated in an early 18th-century engraving by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck were removed in favour of a landscape scheme with the advice of Sanderson Miller (1716-80) of Radway Grange, Warwickshire. Honington was one of a group of Warwickshire sites at which Miller advised, including Alscot Park, Arbury Hall, Farnborough Hall and Packington Hall.  The mid-18th-century landscape and the remodelled house are shown in a pair of rococo watercolours of 1759 by Thomas Robins (private collection). 

Joseph Townsend died in 1763, leaving the estate to his son, Gore Townsend, who in turn was succeeded by his son, the Rev Henry Townsend. When the Rev Henry Townsend died in 1873 his nephew, Frederick Townsend, a noted amateur botanist, inherited Honington and lived there until his death in 1905,

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The Robert Taylor Design.

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Of tangential interest - The Parker Monument at Honington.

Some designs of Funeral Monuments by James Gibbs of 1728

 

This post is was created as an aide memoire.

Images from

A Book of Architecture, containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments. By James Gibbs pub. 1728.

Posted in order to make swift comparisons with the monuments of Henry Cheere many of which were derived from these engravings.

Plate 123.

Plate 124.