 Elston
All Saints
Monuments and Memorials
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1.
Sacred
To the memory of the Revd. JOHN DARWIN, M.A.
Son of ROBERT and ELIZABETH DARWIN,
He was upwards of 40 years.
Rector
of Carlton-Scroop in the County of Lincoln;
And nearly for the fame period
Rector
of this Parish.
Nat. 28th Sepr. 1730. Denat. 24th May, 1805. |
2. Monument to Erasmus Darwin of Elston Hall, grandfather to Charles Darwin, the author of On the origin of species by means of natural selection published in 1859.
The memorial was put up in 2002 to mark the 200th anniversary of his death. It reads as follows:
ERASMUS DARWIN
1731 - 1802
Born and lived at Elston Hall
1731 - 1756
Fellow of the Royal Society
1761 - 1802
Eminent Medical Doctor
Scientific Genius
Originator of The biological theory of Evolution
Leading Poet with the gift of friendship
Died at Breadsall Priory
near Derby |
3.
Near this place lieth Interr’d
WILL DARWIN of CLEATHAM in the
County of LINCOLN Esq. Ob 24th of Sepr.
1760 Aged 79 :
As also ELIZABETH his first Wife Daughter
of ERASMUS DAEWIN of HULL Esq. Obt.
9th June 1713 Aged 25. By whom he had two
Sons and two Daughters ERASMUS, ANN,
WILL – MORGAN and ELIZABETH.
And also MARY his second Wife Daughter
of EDWARD SECKER of GRANTHAM Gent.
obt. 14th May 1747 Aged 63. By whom he had
four Daughters and one Son, MARY,
ANNA-MARIA, ELIANOR, ARABELLA
and WARING. |
South Aisle
4.
GIVING THANKS TO GOD
FOR THE MEMORY OF
COLONEL CHARLES WARING DARWIN
LATE DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY
OF ELSTON HALL
SON OF FRANCIS AND CHARLOTTE MARIA
COOPER DARWIN
OF CRESKELD, ARTHINGTON, YORKSHIRE
AND ELSTON.
DIED AT WIESBADEN, GERMANY.
2ND AUGUST 1928
AGED 72 YEARS.
“HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP”.
AND OF MARY DOROTHEA, HIS WIFE,
WHO DIED 9TH AUGUST 1947,
IN HER 77TH YEAR.
SHE WAS THE ONLY CHILD OF
THE RT. HON. JOHN LLOYD WHARTON
“THANKS BE TO GOD” |
5.
PER ADUA AD ASTRA
GIVING GLORY TO GOD FOR THE MEMORY OF
SQUADRON – LEADER
CHARLES JOHN WHARTON DARWIN • D.S.O
COLDSTREAM GUARDS AND ROYAL AIR FORCE
DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE • DECEMBER 26TH 1941
CREMATED AT GOLDERS GREEN
AND HIS ONLY SON
FLIGHT - LIEUTENANT
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM WHARTON DARWIN
ROYAL AIR FORCE
KILLED IN ACTION AT EL ALAMEIN • EGYPT • AUGUST 7TH 1942
BURIED AT EL ALAMEIN FIELD CEMETERY |
CAVE ET AUDE
In gratitude for the life of
GILBERT WILLIAM LLOYD DARWIN
NOVEMBER 9 1899 – DECEMBER 4 1979
YOUNGEST SON OF CHARLES WARING
AND MARY DOROTHEA
and his wife
ELIZABETH JOAN COKE DARWIN
AUGUST 27 1909 – NOVEMBER 9 1990
he served his fellowmen |
6.
NEAR THIS PLACE
ARE INTERRED THE REMAINS OF
WILLIAM ALVEY DARWIN
OF NEW SLEAFORD IN THE COUNTY
OF LINCOLN,
AND LATE OF GRAY’S INN
IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, GENT.
BORN 3RD OCTR. 1726. DIED 7TH OCTR. 1783
HE MARRIED JANE, DAUGHTER OF
JOSEPH BROWN LATE OF
BALDERTON IN THIS COUNTY GENT.
BY WHOM HE HAD ISSUE THREE SONS
AND THREE DAUGHTERS |
7.
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JANE
RELICT OF THE LATE
WILLIAM ALVEY DARWIN, GENT
SHE DIED
AT OSMASTON HALL, NEAR DERBY,
ON THE 7TH OF JANUARY 1835,
IN THE NINETIETH YEAR OF
HER AGE |
8.
IN MEMORY OF
CHARLES HUBERT WHITFIELD
RECTOR OF ELSTON
1904 - 1922
HIS WIFE
MARY FANNY WHITFIELD
AND THEIR CHILDREN
GWLADYS FANNY MARY
CHARLES WILLIAM THURSBY
ARTHUR VERE
MARJORIE
MARY CYNTHIA
CHARLES KERSHAW |
9.
Sacred
To the Memory of
ROBERT DARWIN Esqr.
Barrister at Law.
Nat:12th: Augst: 1682. Denat: 20th Novr: 1754
He married ELIZABETH Daughter of JOHN HILL
of new Sleaford in the County of Lincoln Gent.
And had issue ROBERT – WARING,
ELIZABETH, WILLIAM – ALVEY, ANN
SUSANNA, JOHN AND ERASMUS.
Sacred also
to the Memory of
ELIZABETH DARWIN
Relict of the above Robert Darwin
Nat 18th Decr. 1702. Denat: 26th, April 1797. |
Tower
10.
NEAR THE BASE OF THIS PILLAR
ARE INTERRED THE REMAINS
OF
ANN DARWIN
OF SLEAFORD
IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN
THE ONLY SURVIVING DAUGHR.
OF ROBT. AND ELIZH. DARWIN,
OB: 3D AUGUST, 1813,
AETAT. 85. |
11.
In memory of Willm Brown
Darwin Esqre Barrister of
Law. The only son of and heir
Of William Alvey Darwin & Jane
his wife [daughter and heirefs
of Joseph Brown of Balderton
Esquire] He succeeded to the
Manor & free of Elston
and after ancient possessions of
his family on the demise of his
uncle Robert Waring Darwin
Esquire + During his residence
of Elston he rebuilt the alms
house founded by his ancestor
and greatly restored & beautified
this Parish Church + He departed
this transitory life on the x th
day of June in the year of our
Lord God M DCCC xli in the
lxviii th year of his age. |
Also of Elizabeth de St. Croix
wife of William Brown
Darwin and daughter of
Nicholas de St Croix of
Nomerton. Born MDCCXC
at Ivy House Nomerton
Married xxii May MDCCCxvii
At St. Johns Church Hackney.
Died xxxi Oct: MDCCClxvii
At Clanna Lydney Gloucester
shire + Buried at Elston + |
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12.
NEAR THE BASE OF THIS PILLAR,
ARE INTERRED THE REMAINS
OF
SUSANNA DARWIN
OF SLEAFORD
IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN
ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS
OF ROBT. AND ELIZH. DARWIN
OB: 29TH . APRIL, 1789
AETAT 60. |
13.
NEAR THIS PLACE LIETH
Ye BODY OF WILLIAM DARWIN OF
CLEATHAM IN Ye COUNTY OF LINCOLNE
ESQr WHO MARRIED ANN SOLE
DAUGHTER & HEIRESS OF ROBERT WARING
OF WILFORD IN THIS COUNTY GENt. BY WHOM
HE HAD TWO SONS WILLIAM AND ROBERT
HE DIED Ye 28 DAY OF AUGUST 1682
IN Ye 28 YEAR OF HIS AGE. |
14.
Sacred
To the Revd. JOHN DARWIN, M.A.
(Rector of Elston)
Son of ERASMUS DARWIN, M.D. F.R.S.
and ELIZABETH, his Wife,
Nat. 5 Sep.1787,
Denat. 13 Nov. 1818 |
Nave
15.Above the tower arch is a monument to John Lascelles, 3rd son of George Lascelles of Gateford and Sturton. He married Elizabeth, only daughter and heir of Bartholomew Methley of Elston. The monument is undated but John Lascelles died in 1616 and his wife in 1632.
John Lassells Esquire, third sonne of George
Lassells of Gaiteford and Sturton Esquire, and
Brother to Sr Brian Lassells knight, married
Elizabeth the Sole daughter and heire of
Bartholomem Methley of Elston Esquire, and had
Issue George Lassells who married Anne the
daughter of Gervis Wirrall of Lonersall, in the
Countie of Yorke Esquire, and they had Issue,
Anne Lassells Elizabeth Lassells John
Lassells Hellen Lassells Margaret Lassells
Gervis Lassells |
North Aisle
The memorials at the west end of the north aisle to the three Darwin children who died at 13, 14 and 15 years of age were sculpted by Thomas Tyley of Bristol (born 1789). There was a big demand for religious monuments in the 19th century and Tyley was a leading marble sculptor in Bristol. The one to Jane Eleanor Darwin on the south wall is set into a decorative sarcophagus and is surmounted by an urn with flowers, over which is a dove carrying a lily. On the west wall, the one to William Waring Darwin has a decorative urn over the inscription and two angels holding a crown above. The one to Elizabeth has fluted columns flanking the inscription and is surmounted by a well sculpted seated woman.
16.
IN THE CEMETERY OF THIS CHURCH ARE DEPOSITED
THE REMAINS OF JANE ELEANOR DARWIN, THE SECOND DAUGHTER OF
WILLIAM BROWN DARWIN AND ELIZABETH HIS WIFE
SHE DIED OF LINGERING CONSUMPTION
THE 26TH DECEMBER 1838, AGED 14 YEARS AND 8 MONTHS
WE WEPT AROUND HER EARLY BIER
WHILST SHE WAS SAFE ON HIGH
IN REALMS UNSULLIED BY A TEAR
UNCONSCIOUS OF A SIGH
WE WEPT, WHILE SAINTED CHOIRS ABOVE
WERE CHIDING EACH DELAY:
A BROTHER’S AND A SISTER’S LOVE
WERE CALLING HER AWAY.
“UNLOOSE”, SHE CRIED, “EACH EARTHLY TIE,
“NOR WEEP RELEASE FROM WOE,
“TO THEIR BRIGHT MANSION IN THE SKY,
“BID MY FREED SPIRIT GO”.
TO THAT BLESSED SPIRIT WHAT BUT PEACE
COULD HEAV’N’S LAST SUMMONS BRING?
“O GRAVE , THY VAUNTED TRIUMPHS CEASE !
“O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING? |
17.
AS A TRIBUTE OF THE DEEPEST SORROW
THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF ELIZABETH
THE ELDEST DAUGHTER OF
WILLIAM BROWN DARWIN AND ELIZABETH HIS WIFE
SHE DIED AT BATH 5TH MAY 1835, AGED 15 YEARS
AFTER A RAPID AND MOST PAINFUL ILLNESS
SHE WAS A FONDLY LOVED AND MOST DUTIFUL CHILD
GENTLE AND AMIABLE IN HER DISPOSITION
HAPPY TO RECEIVE PLEASURE AND MORE HAPPY TO IMPART IT
SHE ALONE WAS UNCONSCIOUS OF HER SUPERIOR MERIT
THE DISEASE TO WHICH SHE FELL A VICTIM
AND THE SUBMISSIVE PIETY WHICH PREPARED HER WAY TO HEAVEN
TAUGHT HER MUCH AFFLICTED PARENTS THE DUTY OF RESIGNATION.
ALAS: TOO PERISHABLE MEMORIAL OF HER
WHOSE VIRTUES ONCE STREWED THE PATH OF LIFE WITH HAPPINESS
HENCEFORTH THEY CAN ONLY BE THE RICH SOLACE OF PENSIVE MEMORY
THE MERCY OF HEAVEN BRIGHTENS THE PROSPECT OF IMMORTAL LIFE
WITH THE HOPE OF THAT BLISSFUL REUNION
WHERE SEPARATION AND SORROW SHALL FOR EVER CEASE. |
18.
THIS MONUMENT
IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY
OF WILLIAM WARING THE ELDEST SON OF
WILLIAM BROWN DARWIN
AND OF ELIZABETH HIS WIFE
HE DIED AT BATH 6TH NOVEMBER 1835
AT THE AGE OF 13 YEARS AND 7 MONTHS
FROM EARLY YEARS
THE SUBJECT OF A LINGERING DISEASE
YET HE WAS BLESSED WITH A VIGOUR OF
INTELLECT AND A WARMTH OF AFFECTION
WHICH ENDEARED HIM MOST FONDLY
TO PARENTS WHO THE MORE DEEPLY
DEPLORE HIS LOSS. |
19.Towards the west end of the north wall of the north aisle is an oval inscription tablet to Elizabeth Hill Darwin, sister of William Brown Darwin, by Michael Taylor of York (1760-1846). Taylor came from Felton in Northumberland and did a considerable amount of carving for York Minster including the statue of Henry VI on the screen and the Percy and Vavasour figures on the west front carved in 1802. In this instance he has carved a decorative sarcophagus topped with a decorative shield. 
ELIZABETHAE
SORORI CARISSIMAE
GULIELMUS BROWN DARWIN
MOERENS POSUIT. |
Sacred
To the Memory of
ELIZABETH HILL DARWIN
Who after a long and painful illness
(Supported with true Christian patience
with a Composure and Serenity rarely exceeded)
Calmly expired, in the Arms of a
Tender and Affectionate Sister
the 31st August 1804,
Aged 22 Years. |
20.
In a Vault
under this Monument
are
deposited the Remains
of
ROBERT WARING DARWIN, Esq.
Barrister at Law,
Son of
ROBERT and ELIZABETH DARWIN
He
Died 4 November, 1816,
aged 92 years. |
Other monuments
At the foot of the Nave (on the south-facing wall) is a monument in memory of the Rev George Chappell, Rector of Elston, who died in 1766.
Near this place is inter’d the
Revd. Geo. Chappell Rector
of this Parish 34 Years. who Died
Jany. 13th 1766. Aged 78 Years.
And Eliz. his wife who Died
March 27th 1760. aged 66 Years.
Also two daughters Eliz. & Cate.
Catherine died June 13th 1769
Aged 35 Years.
Elizabeth Died April 27th 1770
Aged 38 Years. |
At the foot of the Chancel (on the east-facing wall) is a plaque commemorating the extensive alterations
to the interior of the church paid for by Colonel Charles Waring Darwin and Mary Dorothea Darwin in 1912.
On the north side of the west window in the tower chamber is an inscription marking the re-opening of the window in 1729. Foottit was the parish clerk at the time.
Richard
Foottit Clark
1729 |
Metal Memorial Plaques
Nave
AT THE FOOT OF
THIS PILLAR, LIES THE BODY OF
ELIZABETH HILL DARWIN,
(DAUGHTER OF
Mr. WILLIAM ALVEY DARWIN
AND JANE HIS WIFE)
BORN OCTOBER 3 : 1775.
IN HATTON STREET, LONDON
DIED JANUARY 20 : 1776. |
Beneath the easternmost corbel of the north arcade is a plaque to John South, Rector of Elston from 1702 until his death in 1732. The hourglass, skull and spade are symbols of human mortality.
Near this place lieth
the Body of Reverd:
Mr John South Rector
of this Parish 30 years
obt: 18o: Octob: 1732
in the 75 year
of his Age |
On the west wall of the nave, to the north of the tower arch, is a plaque dedicated to Henry Harrison who died in 1853:
In memory of
Henry Robert Harrison B.D.
Rector of Elston Rural Dean and
later Fellow of Lincoln College Oxford
he departed this life on the xxxth July
A.D. MDCCCLIII after a ministry of
Twenty six years as Curate and Rector
of this Parish aged fifty year
“He being dead yet speaketh” |
North Aisle
IN MEMORY OF MARY DOROTHEA DARWIN
OF ELSTON HALL, NEWARK
PRESIDENT OF THE
SOUTHWELL DIOCESAN MOTHERS’ UNION
1919 – 1934
DEDICATED THE FEAST OF ST CYPRIAN, BISHOP & MARTYR
13TH SEPTEMBER 1949 |
At the east end of the north aisle are the following tablets:
THE MARRIAGE OF CANA
THIS TAPESTRY WAS PRESENTED
IN 1989
IN MEMORY OF
SALLY BARCLAY |
THE ALTAR FRONTAL
WAS DEDICATED IN 1991
IN MEMORY OF
PHYLLIS BOND |
South aisle
The following tablet is in the rear of the south aisle, on south-facing wall:
| IN MEMORY OF BERNARD BAULY CAMPBELL (1915 -2002) OF TULSE HILL, LONDON |
Chancel
On the north wall of the chancel is a brass tablet recording that the altar frontal is dedicated to the memory of Les Wright, who died in 2006:
THE RED ALTAR
FRONTAL
was designed & worked by
JANICE ROSE
in 2007 and dedicated
in memory of
LES WRIGHT,
ELSTON FARMER
1923 -2006 |
IN MEMORY OF
GORDON LEONARD WRIGHT
1949 - 1988 |
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