Talland Church Headstones

Lansallos Gravestone: 3

Grade II Listed

• • opc – additional information taken from Lansallos Online Parish Clerk; discrepancies in BOLD

Stone Inscription:

Incised with winged angel, centrally in roundel; finger pointing to hour glass, signifying the passage of time, 
and an arrow through a heart, an expression of wounded love. 
‘Memento Mori’ - ‘Remember you must die’

In Memory of
Barnabas Northcott
Who Departed this Life 
The 12th day of May
In the Year 1783  Aged 65

When you my Friends
And Children all So Dear
Behold where now I Ly
Remember tis aPointed
For all men once to Die
For I my Self in Prime of Life
The Lord tuck me away
And non that'd on ye Earth can tell
How Long they in it may Stay
Now Here I Rest
Within the Silent Grave
And Bleƒsed be the Lord of Host
He Took But what He Gave

HERE By Lyeth
The Body of Jane
The wife of Barnabas
Who Departed this Life
In the Year 1766
AGED 60YR

Alƒo their Son Thos,
Northcott, of St Veep
Who Departed this Life 
the 29th day of Jany,
1803
AGED 52 
YEARS