Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Martin, Bowness-on-Windermere: memorials


included in:-	St Martin, Bowness-on-Windermere
	St Martin, Bowness-on-Windermere: memorials
locality type:-	church memorial
locality type:-	gravestone

	BRL52.jpg Memorial:- "THE AUTHORS EPITAPH UPON / HIM SELFE. MADE IN THE / TYME OF SICKNESS. / A MAN I WAS, WORMES MEATE I AM: / TO EARTH RETURN'D FROM WHENCE I CAME: / MANY REMOVES ON EARTH I HAD / IN EARTH AT LENGTH MY BED IS MADE: / A BED WHICH CHRIST DOD NOT DISDAINE: / ALTHO' IT COULD NOT HIM RETAINE. / HIS DEADLIE FOES MIGHT PLAINLIE SEE; / OVER SINN, AND DEATH, HIS VICTORIE. / HERE MUST I REST, TILL CHRIST SHALL LET ME SEE / HIS PROMISED JERUSALEM AND HER FAELICITIE. / VENI DOMINE JESU, VENI CITO / ROBERT' PHILIPSON GENT: XIIIITO OCT= / BRIS AN' SALUTIS 1631: ANNO / AETATIS SUA 63TIO." (taken 18.9.2009) BRL56.jpg "IN MEMORY / of / RASSELAS BELFIELD / a Native of / ABYSSINIA. / who departed this Life on the / 16 Day of January 1822. / Aged 32 Years. / A Slave by birth I left my native Land, / And found my Freedom on Britania's Strand / Blest Isle Thou Glory of the Wise and Free! / Thy Touch alone unbinds the Chains of Slavery!" (taken 18.9.2009) BRL57.jpg "In Memory of / THOMAS ULLOCK. / who died 19 Octr 1791. / Aged 75 Years / Poor Tom came here to lie. / From Battles of / DETTINGEN &FONTENOY. / in 1743 and 1745 / ..." (taken 18.9.2009) CCB99.jpg Memorial to John Bolton, Storrs, d.1837. (taken 12.11.2014)

evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag item:- accident; shipwreck; HMS Recruit
source data:-	Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1849 part 2 p.589 "[St Martin, Bowness-on-Windermere] ..." "The walls, especially in the chancel, are thronged with many neat and handsome marble tablets commemorative of individuals connected by birth or property with the surrounding country - over two or three of which the funeral hatchments of the deceased are suspended, as if to testify it were wished that even in the grave the distinctions of life should follow and overshadow them. Among these monuments the divine and man of learning will single out the elegant memorial to Dr. Watson, the eminent Bishop of Llandaff, who died in 1816, on which the following tributes are engraven:-" "Quod mortale fuit Ricardi Landavensis juxta coemeterium habet, quod immortale est faxit Deus ΕΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΩ coelum habeat. Vitam obiit IV. non. Jul. A.D. MDCCCXVI. AEtat LXXIX." "Hoc marmor, parvulum licet, egregii in conjugem amoris monumentum, poni curavit Dorothea Watson. Et ipsa aevo haud brevi sine labe perfuncta, tumulo eodem sepulta requiescit. Excessit III. Id. April. A.D. MDCCCXXXI. Aetatis suae LXXXI." "The bishop's remains are entombed within an inclosed space in the burial ground, at the east end of the church, where, on the stone that rests upon"
source data:-	goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1849 part 2 p.590 "the grave, this brief and simple record:-" "Ricardi Watson Episcopi Landavensis cineribus scarum. Obiit Julii 4, A.D. 1816, AEtatis 79." "Hic etiam conjugem prope depositae sunt reliquiae Dorothea Watson, maximae natulum Edwardi Wilson de Dallam Tower, Arm. Vitam obiit III id. Aprilis A.D. MDCCCXXXI. aetatis suae LXXXI." "Another marble tablet, surmounted by an urn and anchor, commemorates many melancholy events which occurred in a short space of time in one family." ""On the 7th of June 1832 was lost, with all the crew of her Majesty's brig Recruit, in a gale of wind, on the passage from Halifax to Bermuda, Henry C. Poulett Thompson, aged 14 years, youngest son of Andrew Henry Poulett Thompson, esq. late of Belfield.On the 7th Sept. 1834 Sophia Poulett Thompson, his mother, died at Belfield, aged 41. On the 2d June, died at Greenwich, aged 20, Andrew John Poulett Thompson, eldest son of the above. On the 28th April 1839 was drowned in the river Thames, by the upsetting of a boat, Andrew Henry Poulett Thompson, esq. late of Belfield, and of Austin Friars, London, aged 52 years. On the 5th Sept. 1840 died at Mortlake, Surrey, Charlotte Weguelin, only daughter of the above, and wife of Thomas Matthias Weguelin, of Mortlake and Austin Friars."" "In the north aisle is a tablet, surmounted by a fine white marble bust, to the memory of" ""Fletcher Raincock, esq. A.M. who died 17 Aug. 1846, in the 72nd year of his age. He was the second son of the late Rev. W. Raincock, rector of Ouseley, Cumberland, by Agnes, eldest daughter of the late Fletcher Fleming, of Rayrigg, and formerly senior Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and F.S.A."" "Passing these and other modern erections, the antiquary will pause before the oldest monument in the church, erected on the south side of the altar, over the place where the dust of many generations of the Philipsons has long been mingled with its kindred earth. It is a simple slab of black marble, let into a bed of stone, placed upon a square high stone pedestal, and adorned with some ornamental mouldings, which are so much clogged with whitewash as to be almost undefinable. It is surmounted with their armorial cognizances, and bears the record of one of the owners of Calgarth:-" "The author's epitaph upon Himselfe, made in the Tyme of his sickness." "A man I was, worms meate I am, To earth return'd, from whence I came. Many removes on earth I had, In Earth at length my Bed is made. A bed which Christ did not disdaine, Altho' it could not him retaine, His deathlie foes might plainlie see Over sin and death his victorie. Here must I rest till Christ shall let me see His promised Jerusalem, and her felicitie." "Veni Domine Jesu, veni cito." "Robert Philipson, Gent. xiiiito Octo- bris Ano Salutis 1631. Anno AEtatis suae 63tio." "There are also several sepulchral memorials on brass, but none of any interest or far-off date; and on the floor are numerous tombstones and incised slabs, charged with the heraldic badges, and obituary epitaphs of those who rest beneath." "Affixed to the wall, under the window at the east end of the north aisle, is an iron bracket, ornamented with some scroll work, and painted in several colours, with the date on it of 1619. I was told this is considered to have been an ancient candlestick, found some years ago among a pile of rubbish in the bottom of the Tower. With deference however for such accredited" "Belfield is a neat modern house in the village of Bowness. - EDIT."
source data:-	goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1849 part 2 p.591 "opinion, it seems more likely part of an hour-glass stand of the Puritan period, or to have been used for suspending over the tomb of some knight of old - probably one of the elder Philipsons - those mouldering trophies of his martial pride, the banner of his house, and the arms used by him in war; which of yore it was the custom of the English chivalry to have hung "as honours o'er their graves."" "In the southern aisle his coat of mail Hangs o'er his marble shrine; And his tilting-spear is resting there, His helm and gabardine."

evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag item:- memorial
source data:-	Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1849 part 2 p.585 "WINDERMERE, OR BOWNESS, CHURCH, WESTMERLAND." "... stands almost on the margin of the water, on the edge of what was once the village green, and within a burial ground, whose verdant sward is nearly surrounded by the sombre foliage of a number of flourishing yew trees, under whose shade the sumptuous tombs, which human pride has erected over its kindred dust, are glaringly contrasted with the numerous grassy hillocks that mark the resting places of the simple forefathers of this pretty hamlet. Few of those lowly graves are distinguished by head-stones or other sepulchral memorials, yet on one that is to be met with, the following inscription, calculated from the quaintness of its conclusion to attract attention, is perhaps worth transcribing:-" "In memory of Thomas Ullock, who died 19 October, 1791, aged 71 years. Poor Tom! came here to lie from battles of Dettingen and Fontenay in 1743 and 1745."

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