IN THIS CHANCEL LIE THE REMAINS OF THE REV. ROBERT PARR, A. M. FORMERLY FELLOW OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND VICAR OF MODBURY, DEVONSHIRE, AFTERWARDS RECTOR OF ST. LAWRENCE, NORWICH, FOR TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS WITHIN NINETEEN DAYS, AND OF HEIGHAM FOR THIRTY-ONE YEARS WITHIN SIX DAYS, WHO DIED JUNE 3rd, A. D. 1812, AGED 71. HIS CONVERSATION WAS CHEERFUL WITHOUT LEVITY, HIS MANNErs were aGREEABLE WITHOUT ART, HIS INTEGRITY WAS INFLEXIBLE, HIS PIETY WAS SINCERE. HIS MEMORY WILL LONG BE REVERED BY HIS PARISHIONERS, FRIENDS, AND RELATIONS, BY THE UNFORTUNATE, WHOM HE WAS ACCUSTOMED TO CONSOLE, AND BY THE INDIGENT, WHOM HE WAS EVER READY TO RELIEVE. OF HENRY SMITH, ESQ. OF COLTISHALL, NORFOLK, AGED 54, AND IS BURIED IN THE SAME VAULT WITH HER HUSBAND. THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED, BY THREE SURVIVING BROTHERS AND A SISTER, TO THE MEMORY OF THE AMIABLE AND ACCOMPLISHED SUSANNAH LOWNDES, ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE LATE RICHARD AND SUSANNAH LOWNDES OF LIVERPOOL, SHE WAS BORN IN THAT TOWN, 12th AUGUST, 1794, DIED AT WARWICK, ON THE 19th FEBRUARY, 1813, AND ON THE 26th WAS BURIED AT THE ENTRANCE OF THIS CHANCEL. WITH WATER DRAWN FROM THIS WELL, RICHARD THE THIRD, KING OF ENGLAND, ALLAYED HIS THIRST, WHILE FIERCELY AND WITH DEADLY HATRED HE WAS WAGING BATTLE WITH HENRY EARL OF RICHMOND, AND WHEN HE WAS DOOMED BEFORE NIGHT TO LOSE HIS SCEPTRE AND HIS LIFE. AUGUST 22, 1485. TO THE MEMORY OF AN AFFECTIONATE MOTHER, AN EXEMPLARY CHRISTIAN, MRS. ELIZABETH THACKERAY, WHO WAS RELICT OF THE LATE FREDERICK THACKERAY, M. D. OF WINDSOR, BUCKS; DIED AT LEAMINGTON, OCT. 11th, A. D. 1816, ÆTAT. 80, AND WAS BURIED IN HATTON CHURCH ON THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY. THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY HER GRATEFUL, DUTIFUL, AND AFFECTIONATE CHILDREN, LOUISA THACKERAY, AND THE REV. GEORGE THACKERAY, D. D. PROVOST OF KING'S COLL. CAMBRIDGE. |