Barraka Gardens, Valetta

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Kirkpatrick

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Celtic Monument

Rosary Cemetery - Norwich [Link]

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Helen Bishop - Chale

Helen Bishop
Saint Andrew - Chale, Isle of Wight [Link]

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"Birdbath"

Rosary Cemetery - Norwich [Link]

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The Rosary Cemetery

Rosary Cemetery - Norwich [Link]

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1 Kings 2:10-12

Richard Burleigh
Rector of Chale
Died 1734

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Then David rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. He had reigned forty years over Israel—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three in Jerusalem.  So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his rule was firmly established.

Commemoration Stone - Saint Lawrence

Monument - Haddiscoe

Saint Mary - Haddiscoe [Link]

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Crown of Chale

Saint Andrew - Chale, Isle of Wight [Link]

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Tall Cross

Saint Mary - Haddiscoe [Link]

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William Henry Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont

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"William Henry Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont KP (5 August 1722 – 30 September 1806) was an Irish peer and politician.He served as High Sheriff of Louth in 1746. He became Earl of Clermont in 1777 and was appointed a Knight Founder of the Order of St Patrick on 30 March 1795.^[1 He represented Louth in the Irish House of Commons from 1745 to 1761 and subsequently Monaghan Borough until 1771. Between 1768 and 1769, he sat also as Member of Parliament for Dundalk"   Wikipedia.

Mary Say (née Turner)



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Edward Milligan Beloe 1827-1907

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Saint Nicholas Chapel in King's Lynn (Known as 'Lynn') is under the protection of The Churches Conservation Trust and it is a credit to their work. When I visited the steward was helpful and friendly and spoke with calm authority and knowledge about the building and at the same time exuded a pride in his work and the work of the stewards and the Trust. Try to visit this wonderful place if you're in Lynn!

Art and burial



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Monument park

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I love pictures like this as photography gathers together different periods of monuments and memorials in one collection. The stonework memorials look like a sculpture park of inscriptions, hope and aspiration. The work involved in this collection is enormous if we add together the stone masons, the labour involved in putting the monuments together and the grass cutters over the years who have kept the monuments clear of greenery. Despite this the monuments start to fall apart and disintegrate. Graveyards are clearly high maintenance to keep clear and an even higher cost to individuals to create in the first place.

Mary and Robert Knopwood - Threxton

All Saints - Threxton

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Hannah Sarah Stracey

16th Century monument - Saint Botolph, Trunch



16th Century monument - Saint Botolph, Trunch

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Sir Henry Josias Stracey, Bart (1802-1885)

Norfolk Annals
       A Chronological Record
 of Remarkable Events in the
Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2

"Died, at Rackheath Park, Sir Henry Josias Stracey, Bart.  A prominent member of a well-known county family, Sir Henry for many years occupied a distinguished position.  Born in 1802, he was educated at Eton, and afterwards served for several years in the 1st Dragoons, and on succeeding to the baronetcy, on the death of his father in 1855, he entered with considerable ardour into politics.  Just previously he had been returned without opposition as one of the representatives of East Norfolk on the retirement of Mr. Edmond Wodehouse.  On the dissolution of Parliament in 1857 Major-General Windham, in the flush of the fame he had gained in the Crimea, was brought forward for East Norfolk with Sir E. N. Buxton, and there being divided opinions in the Conservative camp, Mr. Burroughes and Sir Henry Stracey declined to contest the seat.  On the death of Sir E. N. Buxton in June, 1858, Sir Henry was again nominated, and was defeated by the Hon. Wenman Coke.  In the following year he was returned with Sir Edmund Lacon for Yarmouth, defeating Mr. (afterwards Sir E. W.) Watkin and Mr. Young, and sat for that borough until 1865.  In 1868 he stood for Norwich in opposition to Sir W. Russell and Mr. Tillett, and was returned at the head of the poll, but was unseated on petition.  In 1874 he again came forward, in conjunction with Mr. Huddleston, was unsuccessful, and thereafter took no share in polities. 

Sir Henry married, in 1835, Charlotte, only daughter and heiress of Mr. George Denne, of the Paddock, Canterbury.  He served the office of High Sheriff in 1871, and was a Deputy Lieutenant and magistrate for the county of Norfolk".



Sir Henry Josias Stracey, Bart  (1802-1885)

All Saints Church - Rackheath

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