Image ID: 43051
Courtesy of Nottingham and Notts Photographic Society
Car Colston Road
Screveton
Nottinghamshire
England
This alabaster monument to tomb Richard Whalley, who died in 1584; the carvings are of his three wives and twenty four children.The inscription on the tomb reads:<br />"Behold his Wives were number three :<br />Two of them died in right good fame :<br />The Third this Tomb erected she,<br />For him who well deserv'd the same.<br />Both for his life and Godly end,<br />Which all that knows must needs commend:<br />And they that knows not, yet may see,<br />A worthy Whalleye loe was he.<br />Since time brings all things to an end,<br />Let us our selves applye,<br />And learn by this our faithful friend,<br />That here in Tombe doth lye,<br />To fear the Lord, and eke beholde<br />The fairest is but dust and Mold:<br />For as we are, so once was he :<br />And as he ys, so must we be.For further information on Richard Whalley see article at: http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/Brown1896/screveton.htmThe church is late 12th and early 13th century Church with 15th century tower and some interesting misericord carvings on the ends of pews; Grade I listed - further detailed information of which can be found at: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-448159-church-of-st-wilfrid-screveton
Date: 1899
Organisation Reference: NCCV000137
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