Description

PAINSWICK NEW STREET SO 8609 (part) (south east side)

9/244 Six Palling monuments in the churchyard c.7 m north west of west tower to the Church of St Mary

GV II

Three chest tombs, one altar tomb, one headstone and a ledger slab. C17 and C18. Limestone.

(a) Single lofty chest tomb on west of the group. To Edward Palling, Clothier, 1758. Chest with inset corners has flat top to moulded edge over very richly carved panels and scroll ends, that to east with skull and wings, to west with 2 cherub heads. North panel has cherub panel to gadrooned base, and south has very fine rococo cartouche flanked by diamond-lattice vertical panels. All set to moulded base and on a platform, formerly railed.

(b) Immediately east of preceding a ledger slab at grass level, carrying an open book shaped brass plate to Sarah Palling, who died in 1735 at the age of 6 years 4 months. A very early example of the brass plate form.

(c) Headstone. C18. Limestone. Cherub head flanked by flat scrolls ending in open books, below which are floral drops. Raised shaped inscription panel, but not legible. An unusual design.

(d) Chest tomb. To William Palling, Clothier, 1732. Flat top to moulded edge over lyre ends, sunk south panel with scrolls and enrichments, north is similar with remnants of lettering, but no longer legible. Broad cyma base on formerly railed platform shared with (e). Design looks more like C17 than C18.

(e) Chest tomb. To William Pelling of Stroud End, 1665. Heavy flat top to cyma edge, thick lyre ends, sunk panels north and south, broad cavetto base; all set to formerly railed platform shared with (d). Not legible, the top and base could be of 1665, the chest looks later.

(f) Altar tomb. To Elizabeth Palling, 1755. Thick top with cyma edge mould.

A good group to an important Painswick family, some time of Brownshill (qv) and King's Mill (qv).

Listing NGR: SO8663409645

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]