Description

WORMSLEY CP

SO 44 NW
4/81

Thomas Andrew Knight II
monument about 12 yards
north-east of north-east
corner of the Church of
St Mary

GV
II

Chest tomb. Dated 1827. Fossilised limestone in austere Neo-Classical style.
Plain base and low hipped chamfered capping. Recessed margins to side and end
panels which are of finer limestone. Incised lettering on west side:

EHEU FALLACEM SPEM
SUB MARMORE HOC JACET
THOMAS ANDREAS KNIGHT
QUI AETATE FLORENS FIRMACUE VALETUDINE
MORTEM INOPINATAM OBIIT
A QUO INGENUO BENEVOLO LIBERALI
PATRIA FRUCTUS UBERRIMOS CEPISSET
SI VIS EJUS INGENII AD EXCOGITANDUM ACUTA
ET AD EXPLICANDUM PROMPTA
ANIMIQUE IN AGENDO CONSTANTIA
IN LUCEM CLARIOREM
ET CONSPECTUM OMNIUM VENISSENT
ET VITA EXCESSIT
ANN AETAT XXXII
III CAL NOV MDCCCXXVII
FILIO OPTIMO
PATER INFELIX MONUMENTUM HOC POSUIT

Listing NGR: SO4276547802

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26451157

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)