Description

SJ 4162 ECCLESTON C.P. OLD CHURCHYARD

7/127 Tomb of Edward George
Hugh, Earl Grosvenor

II

Tomb 1909 by Detmar Blow and Fernand Billerey, sculptor E Madeline (in
the Alfred Gilbert tradition - Pevsner and Hubbard). Cast bronze.
Openwork enclosure of panels decorated with sheaves, portcullises and
coronets surmounted by heavy shaped rail bearing, in black letter
characters, "Four corners to my bed/Four angels round my head/One to
watch and two to pray/And one to bear my soul away". Inscription:
Edward George Hugh Earl Grosvenor, born on the eve of St Hugh 1904
died February 13, 1909. At head three bronze figures, mourning: King
Edward 1, St George (with mailed foot on slain dragon's neck) and St
Hugh in bishop's robes and mitre.
The tomb, of admirable workmanship, epitomises the medievalist ideal
of its period (which Blow attempted to realise in his community at
Hilles House, Painswick) of the rebirth of a chivalric society.

Listing NGR: SJ4132362716

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Monument to Hugh, Earl Grosvenor at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15979184

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5