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On the south wall of the chancel, surmounted by the Newton arms (Argent, on a chevron azure
three garbs or), are the three relief busts of George Newton, his mother and stepmother.
Beneath the busts, in a cartouche, is a group of charity children, presumably learning 'toning
and psalmody'.
Two of the children support drapery that bears the text:
I was hungary and He gave me meat;
Thirsty and He gave me drink;
A stranger and He took me in;
Naked and He clothed me.
The inscription reads:
Near this place lies interred George the only son of Gabriel Newton gent by Mary
His wife daughter of George Bent gent. He departed this life the 8th of March 1746 in
the 18th year of
His age to whose memory his affectionate and disconsolate father erected this monument
and with a
Pious intention clothed 35 poor boys and put them out to trades at his own expense
settling £3,250
By his last will for a perpetual support of the charity and for carefully instructing
them in toning
And psalmody which you may see more pathetically described '2 Chron 5,13' and for educating
Them rightly in the principles of our most holy and divine religion for as Denham says:
'All human wisdom to divine is folly
This truth the wisest man made melancholy
That man's the greatest monster, without doubt
Who is a wolf within and sheep without'
There is an upright floor slab to Gabriel Newton's first two wives in the south aisle,
including
George's mother, Mary, Gabriel's second wife. Gabriel was married three times but
fathered only
one son. He was desolate when George died and founded the above-mentioned charity.
One time mayor of the town, Gabriel Newton was buried in All Saints churchyard, Leicester.
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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