Headon cum Upton
St Peter

Monuments and Memorials

Near the main door is a stone tablet:

SACRED
To the memory of
MARY Relict of WILLIAM RADISH Gent.
formerly of this place and late of
West Retford. Daughter of RICHARD
and CATHERINE HAWKESMORE.
She departed this life in the hope of

a blessed Resurrection Dec. 4. 1820 aet. 81.

Between the first aisle arch and the tower arch is another tablet, made of sandstone:

THIS
SET IN
MEMORY OF MRS
ELISABETH
HAWKESMORE
WIDOW, WHO DYED
FEB. 1. 1718 AND
WITH HER HUSBAND
WILLIAM AND
DAUGHTER ANNE
BEFORE DECEASED
RESTS NEAR THIS

IN TRUE CHRISTIAN HOPE

On the step of the font, an inscribed stone which reads:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF
DIANA WILLESFORD, WHO FELL ASLEEP DEC 4. 1878
ALSO OF RANDOLPH HER SON WHO WAS DROWNED OCT.7 1874

GRANT THEM LORD ETERNAL REST

A small brass plate on the credence table reads:

IN LOVING MEMORY
ARTHUR RANDOLPH KEYMER
DIED 25 JUNE 1901
AGED 27 YEARS
R.I.P.

In the chancel are the following memorials:

Here lieth the Body of
Sir Hardolph Wasteneys Bart.
who departed this life
December the 17th 1742
in the 69th year of his age.
Here lieth the Body of
Dame Judith
Relict of the late
Sir Hardolph Wasteneys, Bart.
She departed this life
Nov. 24. 1769.
in the 85th year of her age.
Here lyeth
The Bodys of Sir
Edmund Wasteneys
Baronet who Dyed
March ye 12. 1678.
And of the Lady Catherine
his wife who dyed
Sept. ye 20. 1727
Here
Lieth the body of
Catherine Hutchinson
Daughter of
Sir Edmund Wasteneys Bart.
and Catherine his wife
and sister of the late
Sr Hardolph
Who departed this life
March 11 1750
Here
lieth the bod of
Hardolph Sutton
Who departed this life
July 23, 1748.
in the 5th year of his age.
He was the son of
Robert Sutton Esq.
of Scofton,
and Catherine his wife
Neice (sic) of the late
Sir Hardolph Wasteneys.
Here lyeth the Body of
John Bury Junr Esq. who
Departed this Life, Sep. the 5th
1732 in the 30th year of his age.
Elizabeth
the wife of the Revd
John Shilleto
Died Oct.28, 1782.
Aged 70.
The Revd John Shilleto
died July 17, 1792, in the
74th year of his age.
J.E.
C.E.
A.G.E.
A.M.E.

On north wall close to the vestry door, a marble monument:

Here lie the Remains of Sr HARDOLPH WASTENEYS Bart
being the Last of his Family in the Male line;
Who, how respectable soever for the Antiquity of it,
Was more so for the Excellency of his Virtues.
Dame JUDITH, his Widow
To whom He behaved with all the Tenderness
of an indulgent Husband,
The more to signalize the Sense She had
Both of his and her own Affection;
Order’d this Monument to be erected to His Memory
Sr HARDOLPH died Decr 17, 1742
In the 69th Year of his Age.

On the south chancel wall, a monument of black marble:

Positae infra sunt Reliquiae
ELIZABETHAE
J.Shilleto A.M. hujusce Ecclesiae
et Rectoris et Vicarii,
uxoris dilectissimae;
Quae Animam Deo reddidit
28 Octob A.D. 1782
et AEt. suae 71
Foeminae Maritus
Desideratissimae memorem
hanc moerens statuit
Tabellam.

J. Shilleto, supra dictus, testamento
suo sic jubente, juxta
Uxorem humatus jacet.
Obiit, Anno 1792.
AEtatis 74

Also in the chancel, some very worn inscribed slabs.

At the foot of the chancel step, on the north side, partly obscured:

WAST…..JUNIO….DEPART……….LIFE…….N 16

(maybe Hardolph the son of John Wasteneys who was buried 15 August 1668)

On the step above the last, next to the wall:

A shield with a worn Wasteneys two-tailed lion and

Hic iacet manrare…
... Johes Waste…
de hedon … aie

(The appearance and use of Latin suggest an early date. There was a John Wasteneys patron of the rectory in the C15)

Tomb slab, probably from
the 13th Century

An incised tomb slab which was discovered in 1980, now lies in the south aisle. It is carved on a slab of dense yellow limestone, 1.90m. x 0.55m., bordered by a wide, plain chamfer. This tomb slab dates from about 1300. It shows a knight wearing chain mail armour and a belted surcoat, with armoured shoulder plates and spurs, his feet resting on a small, long-eared dog. The shoulder plates have enabled a fairly precise dating of this tomb, for they were only used for a short time. The face has been chiselled away.