Saham Toney, Norfolk, UK
Church of St George.
Monument to Charles Parrott †1787. Marble. South chancel. Commissioned by his wife, Maria. Attributed to De Carle.
The monument is a version of that to Anthony Norris †1786 at Barton Turf. In both the inscriptions are set within an open pediment with urn and fluted Corinthian capitals with the coat of arms in the apron. De Carle signed an even larger version, the monument to the Earl of Clermont †1806 at nearby Little Cressingham.
Charles Parrott, born in 1705 was appointed rector in 1757. Educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, he had been appointed a fellow of the college from 1733 -1757. He was clearly wealthy and as the inscription records, generous. In Wootton, Oxfordshire he owned Parrott's, a late 17th century farmhouse named after him, and founded the village school. According to the note on his portrait in New College was a major benefactor to the College and its livings, giving £5,600 in all, and later generously endowed Saham Toney. His one poem, Ode to the Night, was published by a leading London publisher, Robert Dodsley, in his weekly journal, The World, in 1755. It was republished, with a different dedication in 1788, a year after Parrot’s death.
Wootton Parish, A P Baggs, Christina Colvin, H M Colvin, Janet Cooper, C J Day, Nesta Selwyn and A Tomkinson, 'Parishes: Wootton', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 11, Wootton Hundred (Northern Part), ed. Alan Crossley (London, 1983), pp. 259-285;artuk.org/discover/artworks/
reverend-charles-parrott-222724; spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord
Saham Toney, Norfolk, UK
Church of St George.
Monument to Charles Parrott †1787. Marble. South chancel. Commissioned by his wife, Maria. Attributed to De Carle.
The monument is a version of that to Anthony Norris †1786 at Barton Turf. In both the inscriptions are set within an open pediment with urn and fluted Corinthian capitals with the coat of arms in the apron. De Carle signed an even larger version, the monument to the Earl of Clermont †1806 at nearby Little Cressingham.
Charles Parrott, born in 1705 was appointed rector in 1757. Educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, he had been appointed a fellow of the college from 1733 -1757. He was clearly wealthy and as the inscription records, generous. In Wootton, Oxfordshire he owned Parrott's, a late 17th century farmhouse named after him, and founded the village school. According to the note on his portrait in New College was a major benefactor to the College and its livings, giving £5,600 in all, and later generously endowed Saham Toney. His one poem, Ode to the Night, was published by a leading London publisher, Robert Dodsley, in his weekly journal, The World, in 1755. It was republished, with a different dedication in 1788, a year after Parrot’s death.
Wootton Parish, A P Baggs, Christina Colvin, H M Colvin, Janet Cooper, C J Day, Nesta Selwyn and A Tomkinson, 'Parishes: Wootton', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 11, Wootton Hundred (Northern Part), ed. Alan Crossley (London, 1983), pp. 259-285;artuk.org/discover/artworks/
reverend-charles-parrott-222724; spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord