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.

Walter Henry Renacre - Swafield

Walter Henry Renacre - Swafield

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Rev'd Isaac Horsley

Rev'd Isaac Horsley
Died April 29th 1803

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In a vault beneath this monument are deposited

The Remains of the Rev'd Isaac Horsley

Rector of Antingham Saint Mary and Vicar of Briston

both in this County

He died  April 29th 1803 Aged 77 years

Alfo the remains of Priscilla his wife

Who died August 14th 1778, Aged 46 years

And Amey their daughter

Who died August 25th 1772, Aged 16 years

Norfolk Annals. "John Allen (23) and John Day (26), for burglary at the house of the Rev. Isaac Horsley, at North Walsham"  April 1801

Eleanor Stratten Layard 1827-1880

Eleanor  Stratten Layard   1827-1880

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Benjamin Postle - 19th August 1842

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Benjamin Postle died 19th August 1842 in the village of Swafield.