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A female figure is depicted within an arched niche with palmette decorations. She stands on a rock, looking up to her right, her right hand holding an inscribed cloth to her breast. The convex base below is inscribed.

Title

Memorial to Mary Scudamore Stanhope (1799–1859)

Date

1861

Medium

marble

Accession number

HR2_WAC_CCT3

Work type

Monument

Owner

The Churches Conservation Trust

Custodian

The Churches Conservation Trust

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade I (England and Wales)

Listing date

26/01/67

Access

time restrictions apply

Access note

Church opening times

Inscription description

inscribed on the cloth: "I KNOW / THAT MY / REDEEMER / LIVETH."; base: SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / MARY SCUDAMORE STANHOPE / WIFE OF / SIR EDWYN FRANCIS SCUDAMORE STANHOPE / OF HOLME LACY, BARONET. / BORN FEBRUARY 15. 1799 / DIED AUGUST 3. 1859. / "AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING UNTO ME / WRITE, BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD / FROM HENCEFORTH: YEA SAITH THE SPIRIT, THAT THEY / MAY REST FROM THEIR LABOURS, AND THEIR WORKS DO / FOLLOW THEM."REV XIV. 13.

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