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Stanhope tomb, St Peter's Church, Shelford

St Peter's Church
Shelford
Nottinghamshire
England

Anne Stanhope's monument (wife of Sir Michael Stanhope). A recumbent figure, the face and hands of which are now much mutilated, lies on the top. Her eight elder children are shown in relief on the side, and at one end we have the figures swathed in grave clothes, of the three youngest who died as infants. The inscription round the edge of the monument runs thus:- 'Here lyeth the bodie of the ladie Anne Stanhope wydowe daughter to [Nicholas] Rawson of Aveley in the Countie of Essex Esquire late wyfe to Sir Michaell Stanhope knight which ladie Ann deceased the xx of Februari 1587 VIVIT POST PUNERA VIRTVS.' (information from www.nottshistory.org.uk)

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