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Jacobean monument to Roger Lort and his wife Abertha on the west wall of the Lort Chapel. Ionic columns and entablature with obelisk finials and a crest displaying their Arms. Per fess axure and gules, a cross or for Lort impaling (Azure between a chevron ? nebuly of or and gules, three ? chevronels inverted or for ? Burrows). Each figure in an arched frame with guilloched pilasters. Below, facing prayer books on a stand are their seven sons and five daughters. Some of these would have died in infancy, going by the scarcity of their recorded names elsewhere. Inscription -Here lyeth the body of Roger Lort, Esquier/ Late Lord of the Mannor of Stackpoole/ hee liver Religiously dooing good unto/ Many and Paciently decesed 17th Mar 1613/ Worne out with lingring sicknes here I lye/ rather, whence my Soule did Flye/ As out of prison , to Heavens Joyes./ Make those things sure, Reder, All Things els are Toyes-. The engraver has made ligatures (joined letters) of TH, E following an upright, and NN. (Photo Oct 2010).