Winfrith Newburgh

MEMORIALS INSIDE THE CHURCH

All photographs © and transcriptions courtesy of Dorinda Miles

 

SACRED

TO THE MEMORY OF

JAMES SCOTT, ESQUIRE

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, 26TH DECEMBER, 1836

AGED 75 YEARS.

AT THE CLOSE OF A LONG AND PAINFUL ILLNESS, BORNE WITH EXEMPLARY PATIENCE AND CHRISTIAN FORTITUDE. ENDEARED TO HIS FAMILY AND CONNECTION; BY THE UNOSTENTATIOUS DISPLAY OF THOSE VIRTUES WHICH ADORN THE HUSBAND FATHER AND FRIEND HIS MEMORY WILL BE LONG CHERISHED IN THE HEARTS OF THE POOR TO WHOM HE WAS A KIND AND LIBERAL BENEFACTOR.

 

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS BEREAVED WIDOW

BY WHOM HE WAS DESERVEDLY BELOVED IN LIFE, AND DEEPLY LAMENTED IN DEATH, AS A TRIBUTE TO DEPARTED WORTH.

 

 

 

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

THE REVEREND JAMES SCOTT, A.M.

OF KING-WESTON IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET.

WHO EXHIBITED IN EVERY RELATION IN LIFE, AN UNAFFECTED WARM, AND DEVOTED PIETY

AS A SON, HE WAS DUTIFUL AND AFFECTIONATE:

AS A FRIEND STEDFAST AND SINCERE:

AS A MINISTER, FAITHFUL, ZEALOUS AND DEVOTED.

HE WAS SUPPORTED IN THE TRYING HOUR OF DISSOLUTION, BY A STEADY FAITH IN THAT

SAVIOUR, WHOM IN HIS LIFE, AND PREACHING, HE LABOURED TO EXHALT.

HE DIED 16TH OCTOBER 1827, AGED 26 YEARS.

TO HIM “TO LIVE WAS CHRIST: & TO DIE WAS GAIN” MARK THE PERFECT MAN AND

BEHOLD THE UPRIGHT: FOR THE END OF THAT MEN IS PEACE.

 

THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED AS A

TESTIMONY OF AFFECTION BY HIS AFFLICTED PARENTS,

JAMES AND REBECCA SCOTT OF WINFRITH, DORSET

AND TO RECORD THE DEATH OF THEIR BELOVED DAUGHTER, EMMA WHO DIED 17TH JULY, 1814, IN THE 14TH YEAR OF HER AGE.

ALSO FIVE CHILDREN WHO DIED IN THEIR INFANCY AND

ARE INTERRED IN THE ADJOINING CHURCHYARD

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

REBECCA,

RELICT OF THE LATE JAMES SCOTT, ESQ.:

WHO DIED 20TH MARCH, 1853, AGED 78 YEARS

SHE WAS GENEROUS AND FAITHFUL

WHEN LIVING, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN HUMBLE

HOPE OF A JOYFUL RESURRECTION.

“JESUS SAID UNTO HER, I AM THE RESURRECTION

AND THE LIFE: HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME

THOUGH HE WERE DEAD, YET SHALL HE LIVE”

JOHN XI. 25

 

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED AS A SMALL TRIBUTE

OF AFFECTION, BY HER ATTACHED NIECE

 

IN LOVING AND REVERED MEMORY OF

ALFRED EDMUND COUSINS M. C., B.A.

HON CANON. OF BRANDON MANITOBA & CANON EMERITUS OF BRISTOL

& RECTOR OF MORETON

CALLED TO ETERNAL LIFE 1 AUGUST 1957

 

HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME,

THOUGH HE WERE DEAD YET SHALL HE LIVE.

 

LINARD STROVD

THO MEADEN

1680

 

 

The Verger’s staff was designed and made in memory of the long standing Verger, Mr Harry Vey Cox, the village blacksmith, who also stoked the coal fired boiler, wound the Church clock and rang the Church bells.

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF

HENRY VEY COX

DIED 12 OCTOBER 1960. AGED 81 YEARS

40 YEARS VERGER OF THIS CHURCH

 

SERVANT OF GOD

 

A GRANT OF £150 TOWARDS THE

ENLARGEMENT

OF THIS CHURCH WAS MADE BY THE

INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING

THE ENLARGEMENT, BUILDING AND REPAIRING OF CHURCHES AND CHAPELS, ON THE EXPRESS AND ACKNOWLEDGED CONDITION THAT 513 (?) SEATS SHOULD BE RESERVED FOR THE USE OF THE POORER INHABITANTS OF THIS PARISH FOR EVER; SUCH SEATS BEING DISTINGUISHED BY THE NUMBERS 15 TO 45 BOTH

INCLUSIVE

 

IN LOVING MEMORY

OF

MAURICE C B ANDERSON

 

BELOVED PHYSICIAN

35 YEARS CHURCHWARDEN OF THIS PARISH

DIED 24 SEPT 1945 AGED 76

 

“ALIVE UNTO GOD” ROM 6.11

 

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF

WILLIAM HOOPER OF NEWBURGH

CHURCHWARDEN OF THIS PARISH 1889 – 1900

WHO DIED FEBRUARY 4TH 1900 AND OF HIS WIFE

LOUISA HOOPER WHO DIED DECEMBER 29TH 1915

 

BLESSED ARE THE PURE FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD

 

IN MEMORY OF ANDREW BAIN OF HEFFLETON ESQ., M.D.

WHO FROM THE INTRINSIC WORTH OF HIS CHARACTER

AND THE NATIVE GENTLENESS OF HIS HEART

POSSESSED IN A MORE THAN COMMON DEGREE

THE ESTEEM AND AFFECTION OF HIS FRIENDS

HE GAVE UP HIS SPIRIT INTO THE HANDS OF HIS SAVIOUR

ON THE 29TH DAY OF APRIL 1827

IN THE 60TH YEAR OF HIS AGE

LEAVING TWO DAUGHTERS

WHO HAVING SHARED HIS AFFLICTION FOR THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF HIS SON

AND WITNESSED HIS PATIENCE AND RESIGNATION

HAVE RECORDED IN THIS IMPERFECT MEMORIAL

THEIR VENERATION FOR THE VIRTUES & GRIEF FOR THE LOSS

OF THE MOST AFFECTIONATE AND BEST OF FATHERS

 

TO THE MEMORY OF

THE REVEREND JOHN RODBARD BAIN

ONLY SON OF ANDREW BAIN OF HEFFLETON ESQ

AND RECTOR OF THIS PARISH

WHOSE VIRTUES ARE ATTESTED BY THE TEARS OF HIS PARISHIONERS AND ARE IMPRINTED WITH HIS DEAR IMAGE ON THE HEARTS OF HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS

THIS STONE IS INSCRIBED BY A FATHER

WHO BOWED TO THE DUST WITH AFFLICTION

FOR THE LOSS OF SUCH A SON

IS ONLY SUSTAINED BY THE HOPE

OF A HAPPIER MEETING IN ANOTHER WORLD

AT THE EARLY AGE OF 26 HIS DEATH WAS OCCASIONED BY THE OVERSETTING OF A BOAT AT ARISHMELL NEAR LULWORTH CASTLE

OB JULY 9TH A.D. MDCCCXX

 

 

 

TO THE MEMORY OF

THE REV’D SAMUEL STAINES

30 YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH

FROM HER EARLY KNOWLEDGE AND RECOLLECTION

AT THIS DISTANT PERIOD OF HIS MANY AND GREAT VIRTUES THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY HIS ONLY CHILD (BY HIS THIRD WIFE ANN,

DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM RUSSELL ESQ.,

OF HONYBROOK IN THIS COUNTY)

AND WIDOW OF JAMES FARQUHARSON ESQ.,

AND MOTHER OF JAMES JOHN FARQUHARSON ESQ.,

OF LANGTON IN THIS COUNTY

1826

 

TO THE MEMORY OF EDWARD BERKELEY ESQ.

OF PYLLE IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET

SECOND SON OF WILLIAM BERKELEY PORTMAN ESQ

OF ORCHARD PORTMAN IN THAT COUNTY

AND OF BRYANSTON IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET

BY ANNE HIS WIFE, DAUGHTER OF

SIR EDWARD SEYMOUR BARONET

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND

COMPTROLLER OF HOUSEHOLD OF QUEEN ANNE

WHO DIED THE 16TH JULY 1774 IN THE 66TH YEAR OF HIS AGE

LEAVING TWO DAUGHTERS

LETITIA MARRIED TO ANDREW NAPIER ESQ

OF TINTENHULL IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET

AND ARUNDEL MARRIED TO WILLIAM TROYTE ESQ

OF HUNTSHAM IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON

 

IN MEMORY ALSO OF ANNE HIS WIFE

DAUGHTER OF THOMAS RYVES ESQ

OF RANSTON IN THIS COUNTY

WHO DIED THE 22ND DAY OF NOVEMBER 1754

IN THE 59TH YEAR OF HER AGE

AND WAS INTERRED TOGETHER WITH HER HUSBAND

IN THE ADJOINING CEMETERY

THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED

BY THEIR GRANDSON

EDWARD BERKELEY NAPIER ESQ

 

IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF

JOHN FRANCIS JONES

M.A. PRIEST: WHO DIED

AT CORNERWAY WOOL

18TH MARCH 1930:  RECTOR

OF THIS PARISH 1913 – 1926

 

 

 

 

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN REVERENT MEMORY OF

STAWELL WEBB MACKENZIE NASH

RECTOR OF THIS PARISH 1889 – 1913

THE CLOCK IN THE CHURCH TOWER

WAS ERECTED BY HIS PARISHIONERS

AND FRIENDS

 

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