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Tymperon monument. -This monument is erected to the memory of Henry Tymperon late Rector of this Parish and one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for this County whose Body lyes here Interred. He married Margaret daughter of Philip Yonge of Caynton in Shropshire, esquire, by whom he had two daughters: Henrietta married to John Mottram esq. of Cawthorpe in the County of Lincoln and Mary who survived him but a short time, married to Mr Henry Maister of Kingston upon Hull, merchant. He lived beloved and died lamented 4th Oct 1724 age 54-. The rather phallic pilasters at the sides are topped with winged cherubs heads, a motif locally popular in funerary monuments at this date. A third, feathered, cherubs head appears centrally and on a cornice a bulls head with a shield of Arms emerging from it: Argent, between three (african) heads a chevron sable, for Tymperon, impaling Gules three roses or seeded vert, for Yonge. Although a so-called blackamoors head, in heraldry, may indicate a diplomatic success abroad, in my opinion, the Tymperons appear to have been sugar plantation owners in the Caribbean. In Burkes General Armory, we find a Timporin, also a County Justice, granted Arms in 1821 featuring two bucks and crossed sugar canes. In the slang of the day, a buck meant a male slave of west African origin. (Photo Mar 2009).