St Chad's church, Norton-In-Hales - monument to Sir Rowland Cotton & wife
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St Chad's church, Norton-In-Hales - monument to Sir Rowland Cotton & wife
Image: © Mike Searle Taken: 11 Apr 2013
Reset under the tower, and filling an entire wall, is a large monument to Sir Rowland Cotton of Alkington, and his wife Frances. She pre-deceased him when she died in childbirth in 1606, having been delivered of a daughter, who also died. The effigies are well carved, and appear to be of alabaster. He is in ornamental armour, and she is holding the babe whose arrival had been the portent of death to both mother and child.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.944592
Longitude
-2.44268