Burnham Market, Norfolk, UK
Church of St. Mary,
Monument to Mrs Everilda Thornhill †1743, and members of her family. Marble, above north arcading of central aisle. Commissioned by the executors of her will on her orders.
The inscription is illegible, but clarified in the photographs. Everilda Thornhill was a spinster from Burnham, who died aged 44. The other members of her family included in the inscription, and buried in a vault nearby, were: her mother, Ann Thornhill †1724; her uncle Thomas Harris †1726; and her brother John Thornhill †1741.
The inscription, under an angel head is set under a broken pediment, with (presumably) the now illegible family coat of arms. It is framed by dark, doubled, Corinthian piers, above gadrooning and a double curved apron. The elegant monument is not signed (or if it had been the signature is now lost) but close to, but more complex than, contemporary monuments by Norwich sculptors, notably John Ivory’s monument to Mary Slater †1748 at Hingham.
detail of the bottom of the monument
Burnham Market, Norfolk, UK
Church of St. Mary,
Monument to Mrs Everilda Thornhill †1743, and members of her family. Marble, above north arcading of central aisle. Commissioned by the executors of her will on her orders.
The inscription is illegible, but clarified in the photographs. Everilda Thornhill was a spinster from Burnham, who died aged 44. The other members of her family included in the inscription, and buried in a vault nearby, were: her mother, Ann Thornhill †1724; her uncle Thomas Harris †1726; and her brother John Thornhill †1741.
The inscription, under an angel head is set under a broken pediment, with (presumably) the now illegible family coat of arms. It is framed by dark, doubled, Corinthian piers, above gadrooning and a double curved apron. The elegant monument is not signed (or if it had been the signature is now lost) but close to, but more complex than, contemporary monuments by Norwich sculptors, notably John Ivory’s monument to Mary Slater †1748 at Hingham.
detail of the bottom of the monument