Church of England
Cirencester
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
SP 0238402103
Rev Canon Leonard Doolan
Vicar of Cirencester
Cirencester Parish Office
The Parish Centre
Gosditch Street
Cirencester
GL7 2AG
72
1427
1972
Recorded Ledgerstones
Cirencester, St John Baptist : Ledgerstone 72
Rectangular
Aligned West to East
Lettering on inlaid white/cream marble lozenges set in the marble slab. A scroll like motif is incised under the initials and dates.
Lettering is in black roman caps and lowercase
Condition is very good
Black and white marble
1750
1580 x 860 mm
62 x 34 inches
Lozenges: 430 mm
17 inches
Edward Cripps was the younger brother of John Cripps (St Catherine’s Chapel 071) and was Churchwarden of Cirencester Church in 1740. Susannah Cripps was his mother and she died a month after Edward, aged 83.
(Ref. Cripps Family tree)
E : C
Obiit Octob. 20
Anno {Domini 1750
{ Ӕtatis 57
S : C
Obiit Novem 21
Anno {Salutis 1750
{ Ӕtatis 86
Mrs Anne Carter
Mrs Meryl Short
Mrs Anna Langton
Mrs Sally Davidson
Mrs Margareta Visser
Mrs Pamela Parker
Mrs Patricia Frearson
Mrs Jennifer Griffiths
Photographer: Mrs Maureen Jenner
Compiler: Mr Roger Jenner
Cirencester, St John Baptist : Ledgerstone 53
Rectangular
Aligned West to East
A much damaged slab with the remains of an inscription. An oval brass insert with inscription, top right, has a foliate border 2.5 cm wide and is secured by two nails, a further two missing; a matrix of an oval plaque bottom right
Lettering on the brass is in roman caps and on the slab is stylised roman mainly lowercase. Long s used with archaic spelling
Condition is poor
Black stone and brass
1708
1965 x 1240 mm
76.75 x 49 inches
Brass:
HERE
LYETH INTERRED
NICHOLAS THE SE
COND SON OF NICHO
LAS AND ELIZABETH
EDWARDS WHO DE
PARTED THIS LIFE
Y 5TH DAY OF MARCH
ANNO DOMINI
1708
Slab:
…….EDWARDS
Who Departed y life
The 3 day of Auguƒt
Anno Domini 1711
(A) ged 31 Years.
It is reasonable to assume that the ‘Edwards’ who died in 1711 is the Nicholas Edwards commemorated on a memorial 010 in the North Aisle.
His will left money to buy coats and bread for the poor.
Mrs Anne Carter
Mrs Meryl Short
Mrs Anna Langton
Mrs Sally Davidson
Mrs Margareta Visser
Mrs Pamela Parker
Mrs Patricia Frearson
Mrs Jennifer Griffiths
Photographer: Mrs Maureen Jenner
Compiler: Mr Roger Jenner
Cirencester, St John Baptist : Ledgerstone 65
Rectangular
Aligned West to East
There is a cartouche of an incised Coat of Arms surrounded by a garland joined at the top by a bow. Foliage embellishes the four corners. The inscription is below.
The Latin inscription is in stylised roman caps and lowercase.
A chevron between three talbots passant on a chief embattled martlets a crescent for difference, impaling six roundels three two one on a chief a lion passant. (Ref. Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Vol. XVII p. 288).
Condition very good
Black marble
1674
1980 x 620 mm
78 x 24.5 inches
At one time this memorial appears to have been in the chancel (Ref TBGAS Vol. XVII p. 318)
Roger Burgoyne may have been the grandson of John Burgoyne, curate in 1616 who remained in office until 1628 (Ref TBGAS Vol. XVII p. 318). He does not appear on the alumni of Oxford, Cambridge or Edinburgh, so may have qualified abroad.
His Arms are those of the Burgoyne baronetcy conferred in 1641 on John Burgoyne, M.P. for co. Warwick, who died in 1657. (Ref. Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage)
M.S.
Rogeri Burgoyne
M.D.
Qui post
Prudentem, piam Prosperam
Facultatis Medicae
(Annos circiter Viginti)
Administrationem;
tandem,
Debilitato Corpore
ta sed non improuisa mort
Occubuit
Decembris 21mo
1674
AEtatis suae. 46
(translation by Mary Pym of Cirencester)
Sacred to the memory of Roger Burgoyne who after a careful, pious, conduct of the art of medicine (for about twenty years) finally when his body had weakened, died of a sudden but unexpected death on December 21st, 1674, aged 46.
Mrs Anne Carter
Mrs Meryl Short
Mrs Anna Langton
Mrs Sally Davidson
Mrs Margareta Visser
Mrs Pamela Parker
Mrs Patricia Frearson
Mrs Jennifer Griffiths
Photographer: Mrs Maureen Jenner
Compiler: Mr Roger Jenner
