Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE ABBEY PRECINCTS, Great Churchyard
639-1/17/93 (Consecutive)
A 11, MON: 379 TO 411

GV II

A group of 33 headstones, removed from St James' Churchyard
and set in a row against the wall at the east end of Area 11:-
MON 379: 1740. Ketton stone. To MARTHA CRANE. A very good
design: a winged angel head with swags of flowers.
MON 380: 18??. York stone. ROBERT THOMPSON. Plain.
MON 381: Early C19. York stone. -PSON. Plain and very worn.
MON 382: 181?. Ketton stone. To MARY MAZABER THOMPSON, 1833;
ROBERT THOMPSON, her brother, 1831; SARAH THOMPSON, MOTHER,
1853; ZARAH ANN, 181?. Plain.
MON 383: 1873 or 1875. Portland stone. To WILLIAM JAMES
MOSTRAM. A Victorian design.
MON 384: 1807. Ketton stone. To MARY FULCHER, 1807; JOHN
FULCHER, 1827. Decorated with a draped urn.
MON 385: 1757. Ketton stone. Inscribed H.B. 2 winged angel
heads flanking a crown; drapes at the sides.
MON 386: 1741. Ketton stone. Commemorates a person of 23. A
winged angel head and scrolled top.
MON 387: 1714. Ketton stone. Commemorates a person of 17. 2
winged angel heads and flowers. Flowers and fruit down the
sides.
MON 388: 1711. Ketton stone. WILLIAM DAY. Good cartouche with
inscription ' Here lyeth ye body of Willm.son of Willm. and
Ann Day who died ye 19th day of December 1711 aged 11
months(sic)'. The t is missing and the s is out on the foliage
at the side of the cartouche, which has a skull over
cross-bones flanked by winged angel heads and foliage at the
sides.
MON 389: 1690. Ketton stone. To JOHN RECKLING, 1690; MARY
SCOTT,1846. Very good cartouche. Interesting palimpsest,
reused at a much later date. The original and obverse side
reads " Here lyeth ye / body of John Reckling / who dyed
October ye / 6 day 1690 / Aged 45''. This is beautifully
lettered and well preserved. The design is of a winged angel
head with crossed wings and scrolls forming the top of the
headstone; the cartouche is bellied. The reverse of the stone
commemorates Mary
Scott.
MON 390: 1828. Ketton stone. To JAMES HOY, 1828, and MARTHA,
his wife, 1835. Plain; the lettering was once painted.
MON 391: 1710. Ketton stone. To ? (wife of WILLIAM HERBERT

late watchmaker in Fenchurch St, London). Angel's head without
wings, heavily draped and flanked by skulls. Scrolls and
foliage at the sides of a bellied inscription panel. In very
good condition.
MON 392: 1826. Portland stone. ISAAC CHESSON, also his wife. A
cherub with his right hand on a skull, holding left hand to
his eyes as if weeping, set in an oval flanked by urns.
MON 393: 1724. Ketton stone. ? 1724; MARY (wife), 1755. A
large design of a skull flanked by winged angel heads.
MON 394: 180?. York stone. STER...SCOTT. A standing figure of
Hope in an oval. Very worn.
MON 395: Early C19. York stone. WILLIAM STER....A seated
cherub in an oval flanked by foliage, with back half turned,
writing on a tablet.
MON 396: 1771. Ketton stone. THOMAS COCKSEDGE, 1784; ANN, his
wife, 1771. 2 winged angel heads and an eggshell festoon.
MON 397: 1800. Portland stone. No surviving name. A
Neo-Classical design showing a pedestal-tomb with a larger
festooned urn flanked by reversed torches. An oval inscription
panel with fan decoration in corners.
MON 398: 1685. Ketton stone. BERNARD MILLS, 1710; ELIZABETH,
1685 & ALICE, ?1706, his wives. A winged angel head; festoons
of foliage and flowers down the sides of the inscription
panel.
MON 399: 1744. Ketton stone. ROBERT HAYWARD, 1744; ? his wife,
1761. A design with 2 winged angel heads.
MON 400: 1745. Ketton stone. WILLIAM PIZEY ?, 1755; MARY,
1745. Decorated with a good winged angel head.
MON 401: 1791. Ketton stone. SARAH PIZEY, wife of W.P. A
winged angel head with a fine expression has a draped urn on
its left and an hourglass on its right.
MON 402: 1719. Ketton stone. ?, 1730; SUSAN, wife, 1719. An
open book over crossed palms. A double inscription panel.
MON 403: Early C19. Ketton stone. HENRY MILLER. 2 winged angel
heads and foliage.
MON 404: 183?. Ketton stone. ELIZABETH CHALLIS & GEORGE, her
son. 2 winged angel heads. A raised edge to the inscription
panel.
MON 405: Early C19. Ketton stone. Inscribed ''Here lies four
children of JOHN and ELIZABETH SMITH. ELIZABETH, ...., ....,
ROBERT.all dyed Infants'. A large design of a skull over
cross-bones; foliage over 2 neat winged angel heads.
MON 406:18??. Portland stone. JOHN EDWARD COCKSEDGE; ? .
Plain. The name Edward has been carved over Frederick, a very
good example of a mason's error.
MON 407: 17??. Portland stone. JOHN GARNHAM, 17??; ANN, his
wife, 1821; JOHN, his son, 1838. Design of a weeping seated
cherub with a wreath in his right hand, his left elbow resting

on a pedestal-tomb with a broken column, all within a draped
oval.
MON 408: 1817. Portland stone. JOHN DOOLEY. A small cross in
an oval.
MON 409: Early C19. Ketton stone. ? ; SARAH, his wife. A
winged angel head over 2 oval inscription panels with crossed
palms beneath them.
MON 410: 1832. Ketton stone. WILLIAM BUCK. Plain.
MON 411: 1710. Ketton stone. MARY FISH. A palimpsest. A winged
angel head with flowers and fruit.
(Survey of Monuments in the Great Churchyard c.1960: West
Suffolk CC: SECTION 11).

Listing NGR: TL8580264036

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26272806

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