Church Monumental Inscriptions 1880

The first volume of Gloucestershire Notes and Queries was published in 1881, edited by Rev. Beaver H. Blacker, M.A. The notes below are taken from this volume, and the spelling and grammar are as the original. The surnames have been put in capitals to aid identification.

In the original book the information was provided in separate alphabetical tables, split according to the location of the inscription within the church.  This information has been condensed into a single table, with the right hand column referring to the location details as noted in the original book.

This list does not cover all memorial inscriptions at Miserden Church, because it was compiled in 1880, and also because it concentrated on the inscriptions within the church. Additions to the list are most welcome.

On the south wall of the nave there is a brass plate with this inscription:-
"This church was restored by voluntary contributions, A.D. 1866. W.Y. Mills, M.A., Rector
J. Rolt, M.A., Mr.. H. Sadler, Churchwardens."

Original Index (no note in right hand column)
Literal copies of the eighteen inscriptions in the church (including two brass plates, two windows and a flatstone), taken in 1880; and the above is an index to the names mentioned therein, with the date of death in each case.

Note 1.
Rudder records two other flatstone inscriptions, with these names and dates.

Note 2.
Bigland records likewise these.

Note 3.
Here Lyeth the Bodie of Sr Willm SANDYS, of Musarden, in the Countie of Gloucr, Knight. He departed this Life Mar. 2, 1640, aged 77. And Dame Margaret, his Wife, Daughter and Heire of Walter CULPEPPER, in the county of Oxon, Esquire, and she departed this Life June 13, 1644, Aged 64, Haveing Issue five sons and five daughters.

Here's in this Cabanet Earth's richest Treasure,
A pair unparalell'd, and therefore Reader,
Expect not Phrases in sad Elegyes,
To clawe thy Fancy, but to thaw thine eyes.
See here that Wealth, Bloud, Honour, Power, must
Return the owners to their Mother Dust.
Vertue embalms them still, with Christ they be;
That chang'd the Rome, but not their Company.

War Memorials, Miserden.

Record taken on 26 March 1998 by John Hyde

The memorial is located opposite the church entrance gate.

Top panel

1939 - 1945

Middle panel

To the Memory of our Glorious Dead 1914 - 1919

Bottom panel

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