Milton All Saints (Mausoleum)Monuments and Memorials
South Transept
Georgiana, Duchess of Newcastle (1789-1822)
By 1822 the 4th Duke’s wife, Georgiana, had eleven surviving children and was pregnant again. In May of that year their eldest daughter, Anna Maria, died aged 14. In September Georgiana gave birth to twins. The girl was stillborn and although at first both mother and son seemed well both died a few days later.
In May 1822 the Duke commissioned the sculptor, Richard Westmacott, to take a cast of Anna Maria's face with the intention of making 'a bust or statue of it.' Following the death of the Duchess in September of that year the Duke approached Westmacott for a suitable monument to his wife. In 1825 the Duke attended the Royal Academy exhibition at Somerset House in London. Westmacott had contributed a Madonna and Child which he thought might provide an appropriate monument to Georgiana. The Duke, however, had other ideas:
‘I shall prefer an alto-relievo and I have given him the idea, it is to be my dear child Anna Maria borne in a cloud, ready to receive my beloved and ever lamented wife, who looks towards her having in each arm an infant who are preparing to advance to Heaven.’
The monument was installed at the mausoleum in December 1839.
The inscription reads:
GEORGIANA ELIZABETH DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE,
BORN JUNE 1ST 1789, DIED SEPTEMBER 26TH 1822.
ESTEEMED AND LAMENTED BY ALL WHO APPRECIATE EXCELLENCE FLOWING FROM THE PUREST AND NOBLEST QUALITIES OF THE HEART AND MIND,
AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE UNREMITTING PRACTICE OF EVERY SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC VIRTUE.
SHE GAVE BIRTH TO FOURTEEN CHILDREN, TEN OF WHOM LIVED TO DEPLORE THE BEREAVEMENT OF AN INCOMPARABLE MOTHER.
OF THE OTHERS, ANNA MARIA PRECEEDED HER BY A FEW MONTHS, AND IT IS HUMBLY HOPED LED THE WAY TO REGIONS OF ETERNAL BLISS.
TWO INFANTS WERE CARRIED WITH THEIR PARENT TO THE GRAVE.
IN PIOUS AFFECTION AND LOVING GRATITUDE HER WIDOWED HUSBAND ERECTED THIS MONUMENT TO HER MEMORY. |
Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785-1851)
In stark contrast to the classicism of Georgina’s monument, the one commemorating her husband (and the 5th and 6th Dukes of Newcastle), has a medieval flavour.
It was described by Pevsner (1979) as ‘two sentimental young mediaeval pages and an ogee arch ... a perfect example of the taste of the 1851 exhibition at its chastest.’
The inscription reads:
HENRY PELHAM,
FOURTH DUKE OF NEWCASTLE,
K.G.
BORN 30TH JANUARY 1785,
DIED 12TH JANUARY 1851.
HENRY PELHAM, FIFTH DUKE OF NEWCASTLE,
K.G.
BORN 22ND MAY 1811,
DIED 18TH OCTOBER 1864.
HENRY PELHAM ALEXANDER.
SIXTH DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.
BORN 25TH JANUARY 1834,
DIED 22ND FEBRUARY 1879. |
According to an information notice in the mausoleum there was a plaque beneath the monument that has been removed. It read:
HENRY WILLIAM PELHAM CLINTON
BORN 21 OCTOBER 1860
DIED 18 DECEMBER 1927
SECOND SON OF
LORD CHARLES PELHAM CLINTON
AND A GRANDSON OF THE 4TH DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. |
The monument is made of magnesian limestone and conservation work was carried out on it in 1995 and 2004.
Coffin Plates
Seven coffin plates have been recovered from the burial vault beneath the nave and mounted on a board which is fixed to the south wall beneath the window.
HER GRACE
GEORGIANA, ELIZABETH,
DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE.
DIED 26th Sept:r
1822
In the 34th Year
OF HER AGE. |
Anna Maria
DOWAGER DUCHESS
OF NEWCASTLE
Died 18th Octr
1834
In her 75th Year. |
HENRY PELHAM PELHAM
CLINTON,
DUKE OF NEWCASTLE
& EARL OF LINCOLN,
KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE
ORDER OF THE GARTER,
ELDEST SON OF THOMAS,
3RD DUKE OF NEWCASTLE,
& ANNA MARIA,
5TH DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM,
2ND EARL OF HARRINGTON,
BORN 30TH JANY 1785,
DIED 12TH JANY 1851. |
Lord
ROBERT RENEBALD
PELHAM CLINTON,
Born 15th October,
1820.
Died 25th July,
1867 |
HENRY PELHAM ALEXANDER
PELHAM-CLINTON,
EARL OF LINCOLN
6TH DUKE OF NEWCASTLE
BORN 25TH JANUARY 1834.
DIED 22ND FEBRUARY 1879. |
LORD
THOMAS CHARLES PELHAM
CLINTON,
DIED 28TH FEBY
1882,
AGED 68 YEARS. |
CHARLOTTE PELHAM
CLINTON
Born 1st Octr 1812
Died 1st May 1886 |
Nave
Joseph Denman (1800-1863)
Memorial to Joseph Denman, farmer and land agent of Markham Clinton (West Markham), on the south wall of the nave. The inscription reads:
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOSEPH DENMAN,
WHO WAS BORN, LIVED, AND DIED IN THIS PARISH.
HE ENTERED INTO REST ON JUNE 11TH 1863,
IN THE 63RD YEAR OF HIS AGE.
HIS REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN THE BURIAL GROUND
OF THE OLD PARISH CHURCH.
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW,
AS A MEMORIAL OF ENDURING AFFECTION,
AND TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF AN UPRIGHT MAN,
WHO EVIDENCED HIS FAITH IN THE BLESSED REDEEMER
BY A LIFE OF CHRISTIAN BENEVOLENCE AND USEFULNESS
AMONG HIS FELLOW MEN |
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