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There is a fine painted stone memorial to William and Isabel Dawson who died c1614, which has a bowed inscribed plaque set in elaborate strapwork surround with columns to sides topped by steeple finials. At the top, under a label, Latin inscriptions. In front of this, under an hour glass, a roundel of arms: Gules a bezant charged with a daw sable (Dawson). Ut hora sic victa. (I)nde. Oris. Non mors se iungat quos Christus iungit amore. Nere to this place resteth the bodies of William Dawson and Issabel the daughter of Thomas Scales of Hescote in Cumberland , gent, who for the space of 44 yeares in matrimonial love in which time the were blest with the yssue of 10 children , namely, Gawein, Bryan, Gawein, William, Alice and Alice. Issabel, Mudwen, Philip and Elizabeth . He deceased the 12th of April 1603, she the 12 of October 1602. Yeldinge their bodies to earth and their soules to the blessedness on long rest, to waite the second cominge of Christe. To whose memory Bryan Dawson their superviving sonne , in his filial love, here placed this inscription 1614 and with intire affection in memory of his sonne John who slept 11 of September attending foyfull resurrection interred nere. The bottom brackets have shields sinister Gules a crescent between four escallops or (Scales) Dexter Ermine on a fess invecked sable three mullets pierced or (Leverick). (Photo Aug 2015).