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Originally on the chancel south wall this miniature figure of Anne Burton is now
on the west
wall of the north aisle. She is depicted kneeling on a corbel beneath which are two separate
inscriptions. The top one reads:
Anne the daughter of Andrew
Burton of Okeham esquire, Fellow
of Gray's Inn, departed this life
June XIX Anno Domini 1642
Aetat XV.
The lower one commands us:
Reader stand back! Dull not the marble shine
with irreligious breath; the stone's divine.
And does enclose a wonder, beauty wit
devotion and viginity with it.
Which like a lilly faynting in its prime
withered and left the world. Deceitful time
cropt it too soone; and earth the selfsame wombe
from whence it sprung is now become its tombe.
Whose sweeter soule a flower of matchless price;
transplanted it from hence to Paradise.
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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