THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT MONUMENT ABOUT 15 YARDS NORTH EAST OF NORTH EAST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1081963
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT MONUMENT ABOUT 15 YARDS NORTH EAST OF NORTH EAST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT MONUMENT ABOUT 15 YARDS NORTH EAST OF NORTH EAST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1081963
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT MONUMENT ABOUT 15 YARDS NORTH EAST OF NORTH EAST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT MONUMENT ABOUT 15 YARDS NORTH EAST OF NORTH EAST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Statutory Address:: THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT MONUMENT ABOUT 15 YARDS NORTH EAST OF NORTH EAST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY

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District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brinsop and Wormsley
National Grid Reference:: SO4276947803

Details

WORMSLEY CP

SO 44 NW 4/80

Thomas Andrew Knight monument about 15 yards north-east of north-east corner of the Church of St Mary

GV II

Chest tomb. Dated 1838. Fossilised limestone in austere Neo-Classical style. Plain base and low hipped chamfered capping. Recessed margins to side and end panels which are of finer limestone. Incised lettering in Latin on east side and on west side:

UNDER THIS STONE REST THE REMAINS OF THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT OF DOWNTON CASTLE AND WORMSLEY GRANGE IN THIS COUNTY AND LATE PRESIDENT OF HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON HE POSSESSED A MIND CAPABLE OF INVESTIGATING THE MOST SECRET WORKS OF NATURE A HEART OVERFLOWING WITH TRUE CHARITY TO ALL MANKIND AND A HAND WHICH NEVER REFUSED ASSISTANCE TO THE DESERVING OR WITHHELD RELIEF OR CONSOLATION FROM THE POOR HIS FAMILY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS WILL EVER MOURN THEIR IRREPARABLE LOSS HIS WIDOW HAS CAUSED THIS MONUMENT TO BE RAISED TO THE MEMORY OF HER BELOVED HUSBAND WHO DIED IN HIS LXXXth YEAR MAY XIth MDCCCXXXVIII

ALSO OF FRANCES THE WIDOW OF THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT SHE SURVIVED HER HUSBAND AND TWO OF HER CHILDREN WHO WERE STRUCK DOWN IN THE PRIME OF LIFE AND USEFULNESS TO MOURN THEIR LOSS BUT NOT AS ONE WITHOUT HOPE FOR SHE KNEW THAT WHOM GOD LOVETH HE CHASTENED TO THOSE ABOUT HER SHE WAS KIND AND INDULGENT AND TO THE POOR A LIBERAL [BENEFECTOR ON 26TH JULY 1847 IN THE 84th YEAR OF HER AGE HER GENTLE SPIRIT QUITTED ITS EARTHLY TENEMENT IN HUMBLE HOPE OF A JOYFUL RESURRECTION

(BoE, p 326).

Listing NGR: SO4276947803

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Legacy System number:: 149761
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 326

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.