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On the choir south wall, this monument represents Baptist, his wife Elizabeth
and her second husband, Thomas Noel.
The three figures are depicted in low relief portrait medallions,
beneath which, on a sarcophagus
with striated fluting, reclines an allegorical figure with a
cornucopia filled with fruit and flowers.
The inscription reads:
Sacred to the memory
of Baptist the 4th Earl of Gainsborough; Elizabeth his wife and Thomas Noel esq
of Walcot in the County of Northampton, who, in his last will requested
that a monument might be placed in
this church to the memory of himself and Elizabeth Countess of Gainsborough who sometime
after the decease of Baptist, Earl of Gainsborough became the wife of Thomas Noel esq.
Soon after his death this monument was erected by his execitor, Henry Earl of Gainsborough
who from a deep and lively sense of respect and affection for his father,
Baptist Earl of Gainsborough has devoted
this monument to the grateful remembrance of his parents as well as
to the memory of his truely respected
friend and father-in-law Thomas Noel esq An Dom 1790.
To names like these it is unnecesary to add any praise as they will be long remembered here
with love and veneration and with gratitude but
to posterity and to the stranger, it may suffice to add that the figure placed here
expressive of
Liberality and Beneficience;
could not in anywhere appear
with more distinguished propriety than upon
this tomb. Baptist, the 4th Earl of Gainsborough, died March 21st 1751 aged 43
Elizabeth Countess of Gainsborough died December 13th 1771 aged 64
Thomas Noel esq died Jan 18th 1786 aged 83.
Sepulchral Effigies of Leicestershire and Rutland
Text copyright Max Matthews 2002. Selected text copyright Bob Trubshaw 2025–6.
Images copyright Max Matthews 2002 or Bob Trubshaw 2002, 2025–6.
No copying or reproduction without prior written permission.
Published by Heart of Albion Press
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