Images of Stow Bardolph, Norfolk

Images of

Stow Bardolph, Norfolk

Stow Bardolph Church - 2003

Wax effigy of Sarah Hare.The only funerary wax effigy outside Westminster Abbey.

From the will of Sarah Hare 10 Aug 1743

I desire Six of the poor men in the parish of Stow or Wimbotsham may put me in to the ground they having five shillings a piece for the same. I desire all the poor in the Alms Row may have two shillings and sixpence each person at the Grave before I am put in. This I hope my Executor will see firstly performed before Sunset.....I desire to have my face and hands made in wax with a piece of crimson satin thrown like a garment in a picture hair upon my head and put in a case of Mahogany with a glass before and fix'd up so near the place were my corps lyes as it can be with my name and time of Death put upon the case in any manner most desirable if I do not execute this in my life I desire it may be done after my Death.

In the HARE chapel at Stow church

These ancestors/relatives have visible gravestones at Stow Bardolph churchyard:

Robert & Eliza CHAPMAN

Daisy & Albert LAKE

William & Susan BONUS

Stow Bardolph page

Stow postcards

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