Coltishall, Norfolk, UK
Church of St John the Baptist
Monument to John Chapman d.1719. North wall of chancel. Marble.
The black marble inscription is set between Corinthian pilasters supporting a straight entablature. At the top the urn is wrapped in foliage, which also frames the scrolls of the apron below. The small angel on the left looks down the chancel, while his companion mops his tears with a drape. Unusually both are seated. The long English inscription notes that Chapman was a merchant of the parish, concerned with education, who did not live to fulfil his plan for a parish school. However the provision in his will for a schoolmaster to teach ten poor boys from the parish resulted in the founding the village free school that year. This must have been housed in Old School House, on the opposite side of the High Street, independently dated c. 1720 by Pevsner.
Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East, New Haven and London, 1997 p.439; Percy Millican, A History of Horstead and Stanninghall, Norwich, 1937, pp. 62 and 168
detail of the urn and top of the monument
Coltishall, Norfolk, UK
Church of St John the Baptist
Monument to John Chapman d.1719. North wall of chancel. Marble.
The black marble inscription is set between Corinthian pilasters supporting a straight entablature. At the top the urn is wrapped in foliage, which also frames the scrolls of the apron below. The small angel on the left looks down the chancel, while his companion mops his tears with a drape. Unusually both are seated. The long English inscription notes that Chapman was a merchant of the parish, concerned with education, who did not live to fulfil his plan for a parish school. However the provision in his will for a schoolmaster to teach ten poor boys from the parish resulted in the founding the village free school that year. This must have been housed in Old School House, on the opposite side of the High Street, independently dated c. 1720 by Pevsner.
Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East, New Haven and London, 1997 p.439; Percy Millican, A History of Horstead and Stanninghall, Norwich, 1937, pp. 62 and 168
detail of the urn and top of the monument