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Shepshed: St Botolph

NAME

TYPE

MATERIAL

DATE

Jane and Mary Philips

Relief

Marble

1761:1767

The two ladies are depicted in Roman dress supporting each other on the front of an urn. Set into a broken pediment the urn is against a brown pyramid above which are the arms:

  1. Azure a chevron argent cotised or between three falcons close argent (Philips)
  2. Ermine on a chief gules three eagles' heads erased or (Chaplin)

The inscription:

    Near this place lie the remains of Jane Philipps. Relect of William Phillips, esquire of Garendon, and second daughter of Sir Samuel Dashwood kt and Lord Mayor of London in the year 1703. She departed this life the 30th January 1761 age 77 and of Mary Philipps eldest daughter of the said William and Jane Phillips who dyed the 19th April 1766 in the 61st year of her age. This monument was erected to the memory of his mother and sister by Samuel Philips esq the present possessor of Garendon 1767.


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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