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On the chancel south wall the two figures of Roger and Margaret Dale are kneeling on double
cushions on either side of a double prayer desk. Under individual arches with decorated soffits
there is an angel over each figure and another one over the prayer desk.
Roger is depicted bearded wearing a ruff and a cloak over his armour.
Margaret also has a ruff and is wearing a headdress.
Beneath the figures are the couple's two daughters, Anne and Francis, who are
depicted kneeling, wearing muffs and ruffs.
The inscription reads:
Here lieth the Body of Roger Dale
esq who married to his third
wife Margaret daughter of Sir John
Brocket knt by whom he had issue
two daughters Anne and Francis
(here represented) which survived
him two sons & two daughters that
died yonge. He died the XV day of
Decem Ano Domini 1623
To the memorial of hir lovinge
husband this monument was erect
ed at the proper costs and charges of
the sayd Margaret his third wife.
The arms on the monument are
Paly of six argent and gules, on a chief azure three garbs or (Dale) impaling
Quarterly of seven
- Or, a cross moline sable (Brochett)
- Gules, on a saltire argent three torteaux (?)
- Argent, a lion rampant azure (?)
- Argent, on a pile azure a griffin passant (?)
- Dules, a fess between ? (?)
- Argent, a saltire gules, over all a fess sable (?)
- Gules, three escutcheons argent (?).
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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