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The two frontal busts, in oval niches between black Corinthian columns,
depict Edward and Jane Turville.
Above the monument between a swan neck pediment are the arms:
Gules, on a chevron or, between three bezants, three crosses paty fitchy sable (Smith)
impaling Barry of six, over all a cross paty fitchy (Hanslop) and, in a second impalement,
Gules, three chevronels vair (Turville).
The inscription reads:
Here lies interred the bodys of Edward
Turvyle of New Halle Parke esq who was
buried ye 15 day of February 1619 aged 67 and Jane
Turvyle his wife the daughter of John Hanslo
esq who died ye . . . day of . . . aged . . .
In assured hope of a joyful resurrection.
The dates are left blank on the monument.
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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