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Holy Cross Church Binstead

Child Martha Morgan

Title: Child
Forenames: Martha
Surnames: Morgan
Date of Death: 08/12/1834
Burial Date: 11/12/1834
Age at Death Years: 17
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG HC003 (headstone) & HC002 (footstone)
Plot Number: Binstead Holy Cross Churchyard A4-038 & D2-108
Grave Description: Headstone with curved top and decrative shouders. High relief large decorative chalice with fluted edged top and lid. Long shaped sculpted leaves on left and right sides of stone and text panel with concave shoulders. Floral sculpted motifs at base of stone. Curved topped footstone with shoulders, engraved initials and date.

Grave Condition Description: Quite good despite weathering and heavy lichen cover on stone.

Other Information: This headstone has been placed against the inside of the West Churchyard wall and we have no record of where the original plot was sited. The footstone has been placed against the inside of the North Churchyard wall.
Burial date from 1986/87 Museums Community Project

Inscription:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARTHA MORGAN
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
DECR 8TH 1834
AGED 17 YEARS

Footstone
M. M.
1834

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
M Morgan (footstone) March 2020
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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