Talland Church Headstones

Memorial 68 ~ Brass plaque on slate tablet bearing a inset engraved brass shield with nautical and Cornish theme ~ Orientation ~ South Wall ~ 98 x 71 cm // 3’3″ x 2’4″ Charles Samuel Jerram (1855-1927) was born in Chobham, Surrey, where his father, Charles Jerram was Rector. He received an M.A at Oxford;…

Memorial 67 ~ A rectangular marble memorial is framed with marble square columns and topped with a Portland stone pediment containing a shield with a painted armorial of the Kendall and Hallet coats of arms. The monument sits on a marble shelf supported by stone scrolls carved with acanthus leaves. A carved stone winged head…

Memorial 66 ~ Freemason symbol, ‘Square and Compasses’ incised centrally into Gothic shaped top edge of brass plaque. Boarder and letters are inlayed with a crackle decoration of black and red. ~ Orientation ~ South Wall ~ 57 x 76 cm // 1’10” x 2’6″ Richard Quiller Moody and brother William Ponsonby Moody (1854-1919), both…

Memorial 65 ~ Slate ledger stone in vertical position embracing historic mortal tale ~ Orientation ~ South Wall ~ 134 x 74 cm // 4’5″ x 2’5″ Robert Mark was one of the seventeen members of the Lottery crew, a large armed single-masted cutter that was suspected of smuggling vast quantities of contraband – gin,…

Memorial 64 ~ Bronze like sheet metal in the form of a unfurled scroll, with pressed letters in a Gothic script ~ Orientation ~ South Wall ~ 23 x 73 cm // 9″ x 2’5″ Rev. Osborne John Tancock was the curate to Rev. Nicholas Kendall, at Talland Church and also vicar of Tavistock, Devon,…

Memorial 63 ~ Two white marble plaques with carved dedications to father & sons ~ Orientation ~ South Wall ~ 50 x 87 cm & 34 x 89 cm // 1’8″ x 2’10” & 1’1″ x 2’11” All three sons of Thomas and Mary Blatchford were born in Lanlivery, Cornwall, and all three sons take…

Memorial 62 ~ Carved oak plaque with Nowy head and concave shoulders and a detailed boarder of intertwining acanthus leaves on three sides ~ Orientation ~ South Wall ~ 117 x 91 cm // 3’10” x 3′

H.C Richards Esq. K.C M.P 1851-1905

Frederick-Field Richards 1846-1879

Mary Susette Jackson 1830-1902