Trowell
St Helen

Monuments and Memorials

St Helen’s has only one monument remaining - a wall plaque to William Hacker. It is not in its original position.

Hacker Memorial

The translation of the Latin inscription on the Hacker Memorial is as follows:

Here below lies buried William Hacker, gentleman, Patron of one mediety of this Parish, a man instructed in every kind of literature and most obedient son of the Anglican Church and one fervent in the profession of the Christian Faith, which faith he showed forth and adorned remarkably by equal holiness of living and alms-giving, by assiduous family prayers and careful attention to the word of God. As long as he lived he was a light and a pillar to Trowell. He fell asleep in the Lord on the 21st day of December in the year of salvation 1668 in the 64th year of his age in whose pious memory his son, John Hacker - his only son and his most beloved wife Anna, the eldest daughter of Thomas Gilbert Locko in Derbyshire, Knight - saw to it that this should be put up as a monument.

Above the church door - Stone Tablet

IN A VAULT BENEATH LIE
THE REMAINS OF
WILLIAM WALKER, GENT
(A NATIVE OF THIS PARISH)
WHO DIED NOVR 15TH 1884

At the south side of the vestry - Brass Plate

To the Glory of God and in loving remembrance of Joseph and Eliza White who resided in the house immediately to the east of this church from about 1860 to 1870. The clock in the tower was presented by Samuel Patrick Derbyshire, Grandson, 1927

Chancel - north wall - Brass Plate

In memory of Thomas Wooton Walker
Churchwarden and Chorister
1886 - 1969

Chancel - north wall - Stone Tablet

Beneath lie the remains of the Rev Tristan Exley
Rector of the Second Mediety of the Church who
died April 19th 1792

South Wall Window - Brass Plates

Robert Hacker Evans
Died May 20th 1760
Aged 15 years
James Evans
Died May 13th 1768
Aged 9 years
Robert Evans
Died July 10th 1779
Aged near 70 years
Dorothy Evans
In this Chancel deposited
Relict of the above named
Robert Evans
Died August 14th 1797
Aged 76

South Aisle on Pillar

Humphrey Whitehead
Died July 8th 1846
In his 88th year

Mary Whitehead
Wife of Humphrey Whitehead
Died the 14th of June 1834
Aged 77 years

Brass Plate in front of Font on floor

Samuel Pinckney
Died June 23rd 1804
Aged 68 years
also Amey Pinckney his wife
Died November 13th 1804
Aged 69 years