Thorney with Wigsley
St Helen

Monuments and Memorials

Nave

On the southern part of the east wall of the nave is a bronze plaque to Edward Farington Nevile who died in 1943. The inscription reads:

IN MEMORY OF
EDWARD FARINGTON NEVILE
OF THORNEY HALL
CHURCHWARDEN OF THIS PARISH FOR MANY YEARS.
BORN MARCH 18TH 1876.
TAKEN TO HIS REST OCTOBER 5TH 1943.

HONOURED. LOVED. MISSED.

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY
HIS WIFE, HIS SON AND HIS DAUGHTER.

The Vestry

A marble plaque to Catherine Nevile:

In Memory
of
Catherine Nevile, Widow
this Tablet is by the most
Grateful Affection Inscribed.
A.D. 1811.

Another oval marble plaque to Farington Nevile who died in 1768 and her son, George (died 1806):

Near to this Place lieth
the Body of Farrington Nevile,
Relict of Edward Nevile Esqr
to whose Memory this Marble is most
affectionately and gratefully erected;
she died Novr 16th 1768, aged 66.

Also the Body of

George Nevile Esqr their Son, who departed
This life June 29th 1806. Aged 66 Years.

Consigned to mingle with its Parent Dust,
Here rests a Heart, whose inmost Thoughts were just.
Reader! If thou woulst calmly meet thy End,
Learn hence the Part of Husband, Father, Friend.

Honour and Virtue mark’d the Race he ran:
E’en Envy’s Self must own This was an Honest Man.

“Let me die the Death of the righteous, and
let my last End be like his.”

 

A brass plaque to George Nevile.