Memorials at Harlton Church (1)

                                                             

As mentioned in yesterday's post, Henry Fryer's memorial is the most eye-catching in the Church of the Assumption, but the accompanying poetry is bad . . .   One feels sorry for Mrs. Jane Simpson, who buried her husband and eight children (six under were ten years old) before she died aged 65 in 1865.  Gwen Raverat, artist and granddaughter of Charles Darwin, lived at the Old Rectory, Harlton, between 1928 and 1946.  The Madonna and Child and the twelve apostles behind the altar were carved by Henry Jan Ellison.  The saints are, from the top row left to right: Jude, Bartholomew, James the Great, Simon, James the Less, Peter, John, Thomas, Philip, Matthew, Andrew and Matthias (replacement for Judas Iscariot).  More about the Ellison family in Part 2.