This seventeenth-century tomb is rather weather-beaten - not surprisingly, as it has been out in the cold since 1749. The old church that it was in then was taken down, and a new one built a few yards away, which still stands. Quite why the pair did not move back into the new church is unclear.
The knight (probably Thomas Crompton, lying in his father's sepulchre) and his wife have lost bits of legs and arms etc down the years.
You can see it in the town of Stone, by St Michael's Church.
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Wonder what the old church looked like
ReplyDeleteAmazing that at the time no-one considered preserving something that would have been centuries old even in the 1700s.
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