A rectangular monumental slab on a low stone base, commemorating William Walker, Clerk of the Parish of Leyland (d.1588). The surface bears a very unusual life-sized primitive figure drawn with incised line of flowing simplicity. It may have connection with Shakespeare, since Shakespeare as a young man is now thought to have been in the households of the Hoghton family of Lea and Hoghton and the Hesketh family of Rufford during the 1580s (ref. E. A. J. Honigman ‘Shakespeare: the “lost years”’, Manchester 1985). William Farington of Worden (1530–1610) has been suggested as the model for the character of Malvolio in Twelfth Night; and the first line of this play (‘If music be the food of love, play on’) echoes the first Latin inscription quoted on the stones (according to the Historic England List entry).