Memorials inside the Church
Transcribed and donated to the Dorset OPC
Project by Kim Parker
© Kim Parker 2011
The memorial is a brass plate on the wall of the side aisle showing a lady kneeling at a desk, with this inscription:
Here lyeth our landladie loved of all,
Whom Mary Argenton last wee did call,
But formerlye of Thornhull she hight,
Yet sister to Williams of Herringstone, Knight.
But Thornhull did leave her in joynctur most sure
The revenues whereof she freely did spend
In good hospitalities till her lives end.
Her prayers to God she never neglected,
Her life was with infamy never detected.
Then rest was assured, through God’s good grace,
Her soul in Heaven has taken her place.
And died in the yeare of our Lord God 1616.
On a white tablet on a black ground:
Sacred to
the memory
of JOHN FEAVER Esq., who departed
this life, the 22nd March, 1788
aged 34.
Also MARY FEAVER his mother,
who died Dec. 5, 1775
Also to the memory of CATHERINE AUST
Wife of John Feaver, esq.
who died April 21, 1831.
Note: John Feaver was the son of Thomas Feaver and Mary Gannet, eldest daughter of John Gannet of Blandford Forsum Esq., who purchased Woolland manor in 1731. He and Catherine Page were married at Sherborne on 3 July 1780 by the Rev. Richard Daubeny, Rector of Ibberton. After John’s death, Catherine eventually remarried in 1813 to George Aust Esq., of Kensington, Under-Secretary of State.
On a tablet in white marble:
To CATHERINE, wife of GEORGE COLBY LOFTUS esq., and only child and heiress of the late John Feaver of Woolland, in the county of Dorset, esq. This monument is erected by here husband as a memorial of his great love and esteem for her. She departed this life December 13, 1842.
At the west end is a brass tablet in memory of Montague Williams, who fell asleep 3rd December 1890. “This Holy and beautiful house was built by him and the tablet erected with all reverence and affection by his four sons.”