Sprowston, Norfolk, UK
Church of St Mary and St Margaret
Monument to Sir Paul Painter †1686. Marble First monument on north wall of the chancel. Commissioned by his wife Rachel.
A segmental pediment with armorial display is framed by dark Ionic columns, decorated with consoles, displaying the inscription, shown with the curtains pulled back. Underneath the inscription to his wife †1695 appears to hang from cloth suspended from the bottom of the aedicule. It is, as Pevsner noted, most probably by the London mason William Stanton (1639-1705). The only information on Sir Paul Paynter comes from the inscription. This notes that he came from and died in Muswell Hill, aged sixty-six; he married Rachel Cornwallis from Beeston hall Norfolk by whom he had three children, all of whom died before him. The inscription at the bottom notes that his wife Rachel commissioned the monument, so that she could be interred besides him. She presumably, given the prominent site of the monument in the chancel, lived in Sprowston after her husband’s death.
Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East, New Haven and London, 1997, p. 672
Sprowston, Norfolk, UK
Church of St Mary and St Margaret
Monument to Sir Paul Painter †1686. Marble First monument on north wall of the chancel. Commissioned by his wife Rachel.
A segmental pediment with armorial display is framed by dark Ionic columns, decorated with consoles, displaying the inscription, shown with the curtains pulled back. Underneath the inscription to his wife †1695 appears to hang from cloth suspended from the bottom of the aedicule. It is, as Pevsner noted, most probably by the London mason William Stanton (1639-1705). The only information on Sir Paul Paynter comes from the inscription. This notes that he came from and died in Muswell Hill, aged sixty-six; he married Rachel Cornwallis from Beeston hall Norfolk by whom he had three children, all of whom died before him. The inscription at the bottom notes that his wife Rachel commissioned the monument, so that she could be interred besides him. She presumably, given the prominent site of the monument in the chancel, lived in Sprowston after her husband’s death.
Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East, New Haven and London, 1997, p. 672