Monumental Inscriptions

The first volume of Gloucestershire Notes and Queries was published in 1881, edited by Rev. Beaver H. Blacker, M.A. and is used as a basis for the bulk of the information detailed below. The spelling and grammar are as the original but surnames have been put in capitals to aid identification. The original data has been expanded to include age at death, as well as information from other sources. The right hand column refers to the location details, either as noted in the original book or in the alternative source.

This list does not cover all memorial inscriptions at King's Stanley Church, because it was compiled before the end of the 19th century, and also because it concentrates on the inscriptions within the church. Additions to the list are most welcome.

Original Index (no note in right hand column)
In the church there are twenty inscriptions (including two brasses under windows), of which literal copies have been taken (1879); and shown is an index to the names mentioned therein, with the date of death in each case.

Note 1.
Two tablets are affixed to the outside of the church, with the following names and dates.

Note 2.
In Bigland (with "continuation") there are copies of some other inscriptions in the church (chiefly on flatstones) which have disappeared, with these names and dates.

Note 3. (Names listed in table, with link to details of each inscription)
Of the churchyard inscriptions, which are numerous, the following only can be noticed:-

1. In memory of   Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas WATHEN, of this parish, and daughter of the Revd. Thomas BAGHOTT, of Hewletts [near Cheltenham], in ye county; she died May 7th 1772, aged near 34 years.

2. Gratitude erected this tablet in memory of Sir Paul BAGHOTT, late of Nash Court, in the Parish of Stonehouse, who departed this life November the 30th 1838, aged 68 years.
Note. From the same volume of Gloucestershire Notes and Queries:
In 1810, the above named Sir Paul BAGHOTT (then Mr. Paul WATHEN), who had purchased Lypiatt Park, etc., in 1802, from Thomas BAGHOTT DE LA BERE, Esq., of Southam, was high sheriff of the county. When Lord STRANGFORD (then absent as ambassador at Lisbon) was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, Mr. Wathen was knighted by the Prince Regent, that he might stand proxy; and May 15, 1812, he (then Sir Paul WATHEN) obtained the royal license to assume the name of BAGHOTT. He has left a memorial of himself, in the dress of a G.C.B.; except  the mantle, which, by way of distinction, is borne on his left arm. This portrait is now [1881] in the hall at Lypiatt.

3. Sacred be the monument which here is raised by affection and gratitude to perpetuate the memory of Obadiah PAUL, of Rodborough, Esqr.: he died January the 28th, 1792, aged 72 years.

4. Here Lyeth the body of the Reverend Vaughan Simpson FOX, M.A., Oxon, Vicar of St. Mary's, Heston, Middlesex, who departed the xxvii day of February, A.D. MDCCCLXIX, aged xxxiv years.

Noted as a strange epitaph.
5. At the grave of Martha COLLINS, who died August 1, 1800, aged 9 years:-

"Twas as she tript from cask to cask,
In at a bung-hole quickly fell;
Suffocation was her task;
She had not time to say farewel."

In Bigland, date of birth recorded as 27 Sept. 1791, and her age as 8

Note 4. (Names listed in table, with link to details of each inscription)

In the parish church of King's Stanley there are the following, which were copied in 1879.:-

6. Near this place lieth the body of Anne, ye wife of Nathaniel PAUL, of this parish, who died the 29th of Octob. 1723. Also four children, Holmun, Mary, Onesiphorus and Obadiah. Also near this place lieth ye body of ye above mentioned Nathaniel PAUL, who died the 19th of June 1737, in the 65th year of her age. Also Anne, his daughter, died Janry. ye 29th, 1739, aged 38 yrs. Sarah ELLIOTT, daughter of Nathl and Ann PAUL, died Feb. 22, 1740, aged 35.

7. This monument is erected to the memory of Obadiah PAUL, of this parish, Gentleman, who died the 9th of September, 1724, aged 46 years. Susanna PAUL, his widow, who died the 29th of May, 1737, aged 56 years. John PAUL, son of the said Obadiah and Susanna, who died the 13th of July, 1752, aged 39 years. Samuel PAUL, of Rodborough, Esq., son of Obadiah and Susanna PAUL, died the 5th of May, 1768, aged 59. Anne, wife of Sir Paul BAGHOTT, Knt, daughter of Thos WATHEN Esqr, of Picked Elm, in this parish, died November 30th, 1826, aged 57 years, and was buried in the north aisle of this church.

8. To the memory of Nathaniel PAUL, son of Nathaniel and Anne PAUL, of this parish, who died April 6th, 1742, aged 40 years. Elizabeth WATHEN, sister of the said Nathaniel PAUL, died March 14th, 1749, aged 43 years. Onesiphorus PAUL, brother of Nathaniel PAUL, died March 19th, 1770, aged 57 years. Also of Elizabeth PIKE, daughter of the above Elizth WATHEN: she died December 29th, 1795, aged 49 years.

9. In memory of John TURNER, Esq. of this parish, who died Feby 20th, 1753, aged 48 years. Sarah, his wife, afterwards married to Sir Onesiphorus PAUL, the first baronet of this name, died at Little Ilford, Essex, aged 87 years, and was buried there April 19th, 1801. Sarah, daughter of the above John and Sarah TURNER, and widow of the Revd. Hugh PRICE, M.A., of Castle Maddock, Breconshire, and Rector of Rettenden and Little Ilford, Essex, Died May 9th 1821, aged 75 years. Sarah, second daughter of the above Rev. Hugh and Sarah PRICE, died December 2nd, 1842, aged 63 years.

10. In memory of Margaret, Lady WATHEN, wife of Sir Paul WATHEN, of Woodchester, Knt. She meekly fell asleep in Jesus, in the faithful and blessed hope of the resurrection to the life eternal, September the 17th, 1826, aged 78 years. Also of Sir Samuel WATHEN, nephew of Nathaniel and Obadiah PAUL. He died in Calais May the 19th, 1835, in the 88th year of his age.

11. Here resteth the body of Mary [dau. of John BOND Esq., of Lutton, Dordetshire], the wife of Nicholas PAUL, Vicar of Frampton, who departed the fifth day of Decr, 1669. Here resteth also the body of Nathaniel PAUL, of this parish, who departed this life the 17th day of October, 1679. Anne PAUL, 1723. Nathaniel PAUL, 1737.

Note 5 = Spelling/Information taken from Ralph Bigland's "Historical, Monumental & Genealogical Collections Relative to the County of Gloucester. This has been republished by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1992. Part 3. ISBN 0 900197 34 X 
Refer to this book for additional information regarding each inscription

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