Headstone 306
~ Slate ~ Triangular top stone. Incised outline incorporating a semi-circular top with square shoulders. A winged angel is drawn within the arch, which lies beneath a celestial pointer, representing passage of time. A posy of flowers decorate the shoulders (one missing) and an incised heart at the base of the script.
- Thopson Rundles 1699 – May 1760
- Aged 61 years
- of Polperro
- Parish Records show
- Buried 9 May 1760
- ‘Woollen’
- The stone says he was married; local records:
- Talland Church Marriage
- Tapson Rendle to Anne Langmaid
- 20 January 1746
- Boconnoc Church Marriage
- Tapson Rundell to Elizabeth Dun
- 22 April 1739
- Tapson Rundle to Elizabeth Dun
- 22 April 1740
- Grade II Listed stone SX 25 SW 4/95
- Listing: 1160930
The stone was “Cut by John Barret in Landreath”
Grade II Listed Headstone
10m to south of tower of church of St Tallanus.
Headstone. 1760. In memory of Thopson Rundles of Polperro.
Slate headstone with triangular head. Crude angel head above inscription which is in lower case lettering with serifs. Heart below verse.
The Burying in Woollen Acts 1666–80 required the dead to be buried in pure English woollen shrouds.
Quite often, richer people would chose to pay the fine of £5; a proportion of which was paid to the poor.
On June 3rd 1742 the Church Wardens paid masons 2/6d when they took the old window out of the Tower.
The following day they paid Tapson Randell and John Ricot 2/8d for a days work making a new oak window.
Two days later Arthur Teny senior, and son Arthur, were paid 13/4d to install the new window and repair the stonework. It took them five days to do the work.
Parish Records – could this be Thopson Rundles?
Talland Church Headstones 
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