He translated the Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam - one of the most famous pieces in English literature.

St Michael, Boulge, Suffolk
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Apart from the tiny 16th century tower, completed on the eve of the Reformation, the exterior of the church is thoroughly 19th century; tidy and tight. It conceals one of the most atmospheric Victorian restorations in East Anglia. As you approach, the apparent south door is, in fact, the vestry door, and you must go around to the north side, where you can step through a door in the north wall directly into the tiny nave.

At Boulge Hall in the 19th century lived the Fitzgerald family. Their name is everywhere in the church; they virtually rebuilt it. Their huge mausoleum, for many years on the Buildings at Risk register, has been restored, and broods magnificently beneath the tower. But it is one of the Fitzgerald sons not even buried in the mausoleum who is the goal of so many pilgrimages.

Edward Fitzgerald was born at adjacent Bredfield. He moved to Boulge Hall when his parents bought it, and then spent most of his adult life living in Woodbridge. In 1859, he translated the Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam from the Persian, thus establishing himself as responsible for one of the most famous, and enduring, pieces in English literature. He died in 1883 and was buried here.
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Frances, Countess of Surrey. His two sons kneel at the foot end. At the head end are Howard's three daughters.

St Michael and Archangels, Framlingham, Suffolk
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The Church of Saint Michael, Framlingham, has been built, rebuilt and added to down the ages. A surviving feature, the capitals of the chancel arch, date from the twelfth century but the majority of the church was built in the Perpendicular style between 1350 and 1555.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Frances, Countess of Surrey. His two sons kneel at the foot end. At the head end are Howard's three daughters.


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The low-relief portrait of the deceased adds some personality to the memorial.

St John the Baptist, Saxmundham, Suffolk
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There is a crisp 19th century feel to the church, because it was subject to an 1870s restoration at the hands of Diocesan architect Richard Phipson. The most important artistic artefacts are in the east window of the south aisle. This is a collection of ovals of 17th century glass believed to come from Innsbruck, depicting Saints and biblical scenes.
The low-relief portrait of the deceased
adds some personality to the memorial.
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Note the unusual way in which the year of death has been written - 1733/4.

St Mary the Virgin, Dennington, Suffolk
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The exterior is solid, grand and bulky, but reveals nothing of the treasures to be found within. Little Victorianisation took place here; the same is true inside and this suggests that the building was in a reasonable condition at the start of the 19th century.

Note the unusual way in which the year of death
has been written - 1733/4.
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"... falling mortally wounded during a raid on the French coast ..".

St Michael and All Angels, Penkridge, Staffordshire
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Penkridge's church was of central importance to the town from Anglo-Saxon times. It was a collegiate church: a church served by a community of priests, known as a chapter. The members were known as canons. They were not monks, but secular clergy. It was also a chapel royal – a place set aside by the monarchs for their own use – generally to pray and to offer mass for their souls. This made it completely independent of the local Bishop of Lichfield – an institution called a Royal Peculiar.

The earliest fabric is 13th century. In the 14th and 16th century additions and alterations were made. Major restoration was carried out in 1881 by J.A. Chatwin of Birmingham.

"... falling mortally wounded during a raid on the French coast ..".
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Robert Gosse was buried twice!

Holy Trinity, Eccleshall, Staffordshire
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The oldest parts of the church date from 1189. The tower shows 2 phases of building - English Gothic and Perpendicular. The church was heavily restored in 1865-69.

Robert Gosse was buried twice.
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Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke with descriptive tablet, naval trophies and emblems and a female mourner in white.

St Andrew, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
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St Andrew is a dramatic example of what happens when a noble family entirely dominates a village. There was a medieval church here, surrounded by a little medieval village, but little of it now exists: Only a small side chapel remains,and even that has been restored almost out of all recognition. The rest of the church is a rebuilding of 1749.  

On the north wall of the Chancel is a monument to Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke KCB (1768-1831) and his two wives Elizabeth Weake Rattray (1773-1812) and Urania Anne Paulett with descriptive tablet, naval trophies and emblems, and a female mourner in white.
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Major William Davy died at sea in 1784 and his heart was transported to England by Major Mackilwain.

Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, Gloucestershire
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Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn. It originated in 678 or 679 with the foundation of an abbey dedicated to Saint Peter - later dissolved by King Henry VIII.

Major William Davy died at sea in 1784 and his heart was transported to England by Major Mackilwain.
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The mason has a problem with this unfamiliar word!

St James the Great, Audlem, Cheshire
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The church dates from the late 13th and early 14th centuries. In 1855–56 there were additions and alterations by Lynam and Rickman.

Lausanne is a city in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and the capital and biggest city of the canton of Vaud. The mason has a problem with this unfamiliar word!

What a shame that this stone has been used as part of a pavement.
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A British landowner and one of the wealthiest men in the world.

St Mary the Virgin. Eccleston, Cheshire
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St Mary's Church as it appears today is a red sandstone building which dates from the 19th century. It was built between 1897 and 1899 to a design by G. F. Bodley for the 1st Duke of Westminster at a cost of £40,000 (£4.06 million today). The new church was consecrated on Ascension Day 1900. The present building is the third parish church to have been built in Eccleston. It stands some 100 metres southwest of the site occupied by its predecessors, which stood in what is known today as the Old Churchyard.

Wall memorial to the 2nd Duke of Westminster.

Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, GCVO DSO (familiarly "Bendor") (19 March 1879 – 19 July 1953) was a British landowner and one of the wealthiest men in the world.
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The desecrated monument to Humphrey and Frances Orme

The Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
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Peterborough Cathedral is known for its imposing Early English Gothic West Front (façade) which, with its three enormous arches, is without architectural precedent and with no direct successor. The appearance is slightly asymmetrical, as one of the two towers that rise from behind the façade was never completed (the tower on the right as one faces the building), but this is only visible from a distance.

This memorial was once a very fine and elaborate monument to Sir Humphrey Orme and his wife Frances who were prominent local citizens in the seventeenth century. The memorial was put up by Sir Humphrey when his eldest son's wife died in 1627, close to the place where she was buried. it was intended to commemorate the whole family. Sir Humphrey lived to see the desecration of the memorial by Cromwell's men in 1643, but after the Restoration in 1660, his family decided not to rebuild it.



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Philip was lost in a storm off Memel in a ship called the Agatha of Lübeck.

St Andrew, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
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St Andrew is a dramatic example of what happens when a noble family entirely dominates a village. There was a medieval church here, surrounded by a little medieval village, but little of it now exists: Only a small side chapel remains,and even that has been restored almost out of all recognition. The rest of the church is a rebuilding of 1749.  

Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston (7 May 1784 – 7 April 1808), was a British traveller and politician. He was returned to parliament for Reigate in 1806, a seat he held until April 1808, when he was lost in a storm off Memel in a ship called the Agatha of Lübeck.
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There is one unusual spelling on this grave - can you find it?

Methodist Church, Brown Knowl, Cheshire
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Brown Knowl Methodist Church's current building dates back to 1913, set in the small rural village of Brown Knowl in the south west corner of Cheshire. A Methodist society began in the village in 1822 and the first chapel (Ebenezer) was built in 1836.

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A brother and sister died from Scarlet Fever on consecutive days and were buried in the same grave.

St Bertoline, Barthomley, Cheshire
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St Bertoline's is a 15th-16th century Perpendicular church with chancel rebuilt by Austin and Paley in 1925-26. It has a four-bay nave with aisles and clerestorey and a north porch; a chapel (the Crewe Chapel) of c.1528 on the south side of the chancel and a vestry on the north side. The oldest feature, however, is an elaborate 12th century doorway.

St Bertoline was an 8th century prince who became a hermit after the death of his wife and lived on an island in the River Sow in Staffordshire.


A brother and sister died from Scarlet Fever on consecutive days and were buried in the same grave.
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Edwin and Ann Sutton were pre-deceased by seven of their children.

Middlewich Road Cemetery, Nantwich, Cheshire
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Edwin and Ann Sutton were pre-deceased 
by seven of their children.
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The Trainer of Red Rum

Holy Trinity, Bickerton, Cheshire
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The church was built as a chapel of ease to St Oswald's Church, Malpas in 1839 and was designed by the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe. The land for the church was given by Philip Grey Egerton.

Donald "Ginger" McCain (21 September 1930 – 19 September 2011) was an English National Hunt horse trainer, perhaps best known for training Red Rum. McCain died from cancer, two days before his 81st birthday. On the opening day of the 2012 Grand National a bronze statue of McCain was unveiled at Aintree Racecourse looking down on the winning post where his victories unfolded.
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An unusual design featuring low-relief engravings of the two deceased.

Aston Cemetery, Aston, Cheshire
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An unusual design featuring low-relief 
engravings of the two deceased.
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Elaine died on her Golden Wedding anniversary.

Nantwich Cemetery, Nantwich, Cheshire
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Elaine died on her Golden Wedding anniversary.
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George and Margaret Wellings lost four children before their 6th birthday.

Overleigh Road Cemetery (Northern Section),
Chester, Cheshire
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George and Margaret Wellings lost four children
before their 6th birthday.
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Two friends who died on the same day and who are remembered on the same memorial.

St Wenefrede, Bickley Town, Cheshire
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The church was built in 1892 and designed by the Chester firm of Douglas and Fordham for the 4th Marquess of Cholmondeley.

Two friends who died on the same day and who are remembered on the same memorial.
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George Stacey lost his son aged 1 day and his wife 3 days later.

Overleigh Road Cemetery (Northern Section),
Chester, Cheshire
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George Stacey lost his son aged 1 day and his wife 3 days later.
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His last words were "This day, the Lord calleth me".

Overleigh Road Cemetery (Northern Section),
Chester, Cheshire
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His last words were "This day, the Lord calleth me".
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An unusual sub-section of the Children's Cemetery.

Gloucester Crematorium and Cemetery, 
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
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An unusual sub-section of the Children's Cemetery.
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