Compiled by Ian and Zoe Crossland © August 1991
| | INSIDE THE CHURCH | Ch1. | Flat stone on floor of outer porch. Inscription mostly wornaway. Bigland gives | | | Spe beatae Resurrectionis Infra jacent reliquiae
Reverendi admodum vivi Jacobi BERRIMAN A.M. hujus
Parochiae Rectoris Laboribus Ministerii confectus
e vita discessit 13 die mensis Novembris Anno Dom 1720
aetat suae 77
Hic etiem reconduntur Cineres Johannae uxoris praedicti
Jacobi Berriman; Quae, satura dierum, matura Caelo, placide
in Christo obdormivit 31o. die mensis Martii Anno Dni 1728
aetat suae 86
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| Ch2. | In SW corner of nave (previously N wall according toBigland). Surmounted by coat of arms and crest | | | William BRIDGEMAN Gent bd 4 May 1696 ad 58
With pining sickness having long assailed
My Feeble body Death at last prevailed
And in its prison a captive here I lye
In hopes to have of it the victory
And live again a life that ne'er shall be
Vanquish't by Death but dure eternally
By an almighty power that shall restore
Thy dust to life when time shall be no more
| James s | ) | of William | ( bd Feb 10 1675/6 | | Mary d | ) | Bridgeman | ( bd 18 Mar 1676 | | Geo KEYLE# gs | ) | Gent. | ( bd 24 Mar 1696 |
(# Bigland gives ROUSE)
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| Ch3. | In NW corner of nave (formerly W wall according to Bigland) | | | IMO Rev John SUMMERS Rector OTP 33y and Susanna his w. He
dd 16 Jan 1754 ad 62 and she 22 Mar 1756 ad 60.
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| Ch4. | S wall of nave | | | ILMO the men of this village who laid down their lives in
the Great War 1914-1918
| Richard CLIFFORD | Richard MULLINS | | Abel CLIFFORD | John QUINN | | Laurence CLUNE | James ROTHWELL | | Percy HOLLOWAY | Edward SELBY | | Richard SMITH | |
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| Ch5. | Stained glass window | | | IMO George Treviranus HAYWARD who dd Sep 6 1862 ad 6y
Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them
not
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| Ch6. | E wall of chancel. Brass plate | | | ILMO Francis Joseph LEIGH MA Rector of N 1861-1876
Vicar of Buckland Beds. 1876-1889
Assisted by his friends and parishioners he rebuilt this
church in the years 1862-3. They rest from their
labours.
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| Ch7. | N wall of chancel. Brass plate | | | ILMO George Christopher HAYWARD JP, 12y a magistrate for the
County of Gloucester b Nov 20 1826 dd Sep 1867. He was the
eldest s of the Rev George Christopher HAYWARD MA Rector OTP
and Sarah Elizabeth his w eldest d OTL George WATHEN of the
Grange Stroud.
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| Ch8. | Brass plate | | | ILMO Augusta Elizabeth d of Frederic Augustus TREVIRANUS of
Breman widow of Anthony ELY late vicar of Whitminster r of
George Christopher HAYWARD. She dd at Sandown IW Feb 19
1899 ad 73y
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| Ch9. | Brass plate | | | ILMO Anthony Ralph D'ARCY for 16y Rector OTP
Celtic cross. He being dead yet speaks
For ever with the Lord
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| Ch10. | A notice painted on wood below the tower:- | | | Mr Thomas POULTON of Lowfield near Tetbury Gent. on the 19th
day of February 1851 gave the sum of L100 to Thomas Henry
KINGSCOTE Esq and the Rev George Christopher HAYWARD in
trust to invest the same in a Savings Bank or Government
securities and apply the annual proceeds thereof to the
support of the Protestant Church School established in the
parish of Nympsfield. The above named trustees or their
successors to have the power of withholding the said annual
proceeds from the support of such School in case it should
at any time appear to them that any other than true
Protestant Doctrines are being taught therein and of
applying such proceeds to any other Charitable institution
the object of which shall be to Extend the Protestant faith.
The above named Trustees or the survivor of them to have
power to appoint successors in the trust, such successors to
be persons of responsibility and such as profess the true
Protestant Faith.
NB The above sum of L100 was invested in the Tetbury Savings
bank on the 5th day of March 1851 in the names of the said
trustees
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[Information provided by Ian & Zoe Crossland in February 2003]
