Talland Church Headstones

Ledger Stone 33

~ Slate ~ A full length stone showing the deeply carved Nowy incised head with concave shoulders that boarder this stone. Many of the funerary motifs are displayed; two kneeling trumpeters, one holding an hourglass the other an open book, serenade the winged angel beneath a radiant sun. At the end of the memorial verse, an incised heart and either side a hand pointing to the heavens. The dedication to lower half of the stone is hard to read, added at later date; the lettering damaged.

~ Orientation ~ North/South ~ North Aisle ~ 136 x 70cm // 4’6″ x 2’4″

In Memory of
Hugh Fowler Who Departed this
Life the 10 day of Auguƒt
In ye year 1771. Aged 50 years Old

In Memory of
Hugh Fowler Who Departed this
Life the 10 day of Auguƒt
In ye year 1771. Aged 50 years Old
Afflictions Sore Long time Ive Bore
Phyƒicions ware in Vain
Till God was Pleasd Death ƒhould me ƒeise
And Esƒe me of my Pain
Welcome Sweet Day of Reƒt
I am Content to Die
My Soul forƒakes her vain Delight
And bids the World farewel;
Mourn not for me my Wife and Child ƒo Dear
I am not Dead but ƒleeping hear.
Farewel Vain world Ive ƒeen Enough of thee
And now I am carles what thou ƒays of me
Thy ƒmiles I Court not nor thy frowns I fear
My Claƒs is Run my Head Lays Kuier here
What faults you ƒeen in me take care to ƒhun
And Luck at home Enough there’s to be don

Also with Him is the remains
of Elizabeth his Wife, who died
the 6th day of April 1789 Aged 60
Years.

Memorial inscription