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Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam is in Ilam, Staffordshire [Map], Churches in Staffordshire.
Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map]. Font with images representing Life of St Bertand.
Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map]. Monument to George Newell.
Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map]. Monument to St Betram.
Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map]. Exterior.
After 1653. Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map]. Monument to Elizabeth Meverell Countess Ardglass. Elizabethan Period.
After 1653. Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map]. Monument to Robert Meverell and Elizabeth Fleming. Elizabethan Period.
Robert Meverell: On 5th February 1628 he died. Before 5th August 1628 he and Elizabeth Fleming were married.
Elizabeth Fleming: she was born to Thomas Fleming. On 5th August 1628 she died.
On 15th June 1814 Mary Pauline D'Ewes (age 69) died. She was buried at the Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map].
After 29th July 1816. Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map]. Monument to David Pike Watts (deceased). Sculpted by Francis Leggatt Chantrey (age 35).
David Pike Watts: On 29th January 1754 he was born. In 1809 David Pike Watts purchased Ilam Hall, Staffordshire from the Port family. On 29th July 1816 he died. His daughter Mary Watts and her husband Jesse Watts-Russell inherited Ilam Hall, Staffordshire.
Memorials of Francis Chantrey RA in Hallamshire and Elsewhere Part V London Life and Works. To this period belongs the execution of the celebrated monument-one of the largest of its class in England - of David Pike Watts [Map], Esq., now in a chapel erected for its reception in the church [Map] adjoining Ilam Hall, near Dovedale. In this fine work of art, the venerable man is represented "on his bed of death, from which he has raised himself by a final effort of expiring nature, to perform the last solemn act of a long and virtuous life: his only daughter- [ Mrs. Watts Russell (age 27) ] -and her children, all that were dearest to him in life, surround his couch, and bend at his side, as they receive from his lips the benedictions of a dying parent, when the last half-uttered farewell falters upon them."
How did that sculptured group command Our wonder, which hath ravish'd thousand eyes: The kneeling mother, and the soft surprise Of the three little ones that near her stand: ' Than this - thy genius, Chantrey (age 37)! scarce could rise Higher, with trophies fresh from Nature won; Art, how transcendent, when such power is given, To fix expression in the Parian stone, Which turns rapt thought towards holiness and heaven! "
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 1st March 1837 John Port of Ilam Hall, Staffordshire died. He was buried at the Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map].
1898. John Benjamin Stone (age 59). Photograph of the font at Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map].