Talland Church Headstones

Headstone 236 ~ Granite ~ Rounded top Ancestry Research – shows Probate Records: Alice Blanche Crompton Rowley of Talland Hill, Polperro, spinster. B. 1867. Census 1911: Artist. WWI Nurse: British Red Cross & Order of St. John, awarded the 1914 Star. Invalided Home. Register of 1939; living at Talland Hill, Polperro.

Headstone 224 ~ Granite ~ Perforated Celtic cross with rough hewn base

Headstone 224 ~ Granite ~ Latin cross with two stop base, with kerbs

Headstone 207 ~ Granite ~ Latin cross with two step base Ancestry research – born in Liverpool, to parents Richard Rowett & Hannah Hill Hitchens – Probate Report – shows, she is a spinster, living at Hillside, Polperro in 1931. She leaves half her estate to Herbert Butler, artist. Headstone 214

Headstone 238 ~ Granite ~ Latin cross Ancestry research – Marriage Records – On August 1920, at the Parish Church, Corsham, by the Rev. Winnington Ingram, CAPT. DONALD GORDON ROMANIS, M.C., Royal Artillery, son of the late W.F.J Romanis & Mrs Romanis, of Charterhouse, to WANDA MARY, daughter of the D.J Hilpern, Egyptian State Railways…

Headstone 179 ~ Sandstone ~ Neoclassical rounded top, indented sides, with kerbs and centralised leaves and harvest corn decoration

Headstone 179 ~ Sandstone ~ Neoclassical rounded top, indented sides, with kerbs and centralised leaves and harvest corn decoration

Headstone 171 ~ Sandstone ~ Semi-circular top with concave shoulders

Headstone 177 ~ Slate ~ Semi-circular top with contoured shoulders