Day 6 of the challenge is focussed on the hourglass, which was a symbol used to represent the passage of time, a reminder that life doesn’t go on forever, and maybe to encourage visitors to the memorial to remember their own mortality and thus to live their best life, as one might say today.
I have only one gravestone to share with you today, and it can be found in the churchyard of All Saints with Holy Trinity, against the wall which encloses the new gated housing area, which was once the site of the Rectory, built around 1959.
The day I visited the cemetery was a beautiful sunny September day, just right for taking photographs, so I thought! But, of course, the sun was in the wrong place, and either shining directly on the headstones, or shining through the trees, which then cast shadows!
So, the left-hand side of the inscription is devoted to Thomas
Bailey, the right-hand side to his wife, Elizabeth, and along the bottom is the
memorial to their daughter, Elizabeth:
This Stone is
to the Memory of
THOMAS BAILEY
who Departed
this
Life the 4th Day
of
September
1779
Aged 66 Years
ELIZABETH
his Wife
she departed
this Life
November the
18th 1801
Aged 91 Years
My flesh
shall slumber in the ground
Till the last
trumpets awful sound
Then break
the chains with sweet surprise
And in my saviours image rise
Also in
Memory of ELISABETH
Daughter of
Thomas and Elis: BAILEY
She died the
10th day of Aug 1779 Aged 23
The hourglass
icon appears towards the bottom of the left-hand side of the memorial stone,
and appears to have wings.
Quite a beautiful engraving!
See you tomorrow!
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