St Mary: monument to Katherine St John, d.1633, & husband (the infamous) Giles Mompesson; seated in arched niches, he holds a book, she a skull; Baroque double pediment
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Faeminarum optimae, Dnae. Katharine Mompesson, Forma, Pudicitia, Constantia, Pietate, omnique virtutum genere praestantissimae, Johannis St. John, de Lidiard Tregoze, Baronetti, sororis natu maximae; Egidii Mompesson, ex antiqua familia, de Bathampton, in Comitatu Wilts Equitis Aurati conjugis charissimae. Qui quidem Egidius viginti sex annorum matrimonio feliciter peracto, mortalitatis mininie oblitus, suos etiam eineres (quum acciderit) reponi jussit Obiit XXVIII Martii, Ao. Dni. 1633.
Siste Viator, Bon ut figuras Phidiana confectas manu discutias. Defunctorum mores perlege. [Stop, traveller, not to discuss figures carved by a Phidian hand. Ponder the natures of the departed]
Uploaded by Tim
on 28 November 2021
