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Monumental Inscriptions information for Holme Pierre Pont and places above it in the hierarchy

Holme Pierre Pont

The great attraction of the church is the array of monuments, mainly to the PIERREPONTs. These include:

  1. Sir Henry PIERREPONT (d1499), in full armour, a good alabaster, ’probably the best of its kind in the country’,
  2. Sir Henry PIERREPONT (d1615) husband of Frances Cavendish, Bess of Hardwick’s daughter,
  3. a large wall monument, with skull and crossbones for Princess Gertrude of Kingston (d1649),
  4. John OLDHAM, poet (d1683) - a tablet surrounded by swags, etc, as good as work by Grinling Gibbons,
  5. the Duke of Kingston (c1806) by Michael TAYLOR of York,
  6. Hon. Evelyn PIERPONT (d1802) by Flaxman,
  7. William SALTREND (d1811) profile of a woman reading, also by Flaxman,
  8. Lady Sophia PIERREPONT (d1823) by Pierre Bazzanti of Florence.