Cotgrave
All Saints

Monuments and Memorials

All the mural monuments are in the chancel.

South Wall

The Rev. John Henry Browne (died 1858) and Elizabeth Ward Browne (died 1865)

In memory of the Venerable
John Henry Browne, M.A.
Rector of this Parish 47 years,
Archdeacon of Ely, and formerly
Fellow of St. John’s Coll: Cambridge,
who died November 2nd 1858,
aged 78 years.

“He being dead yet speaketh.”
Hebrews, XI ch. 4v.

Also in memory of Elizabeth
Ward Browne, his Widow,
who died July 16th 1865,
aged 78 years.

“Them also which sleep in Jesus
will God being with Him.” I Thess. IV. 14.

Mildred Scrimshaw (died 1783)

In Memory of
Mrs MILDRED SCRIMSHIRE
Daughter of
WILLIAM SCRIMSHIRE Esqr
of this Place
who died October 12th 1783,
Aged 73 Years.
From a due Sense of Gratitude
& Affection this Monument
was erected by her two
Neices.

North Wall

Catherine Browne (died 1813)

In Memory of
CATHERINE BROWNE
who died
May 23rd 1813, Aged 30.

Blessed are the dead
which died in the
Lord.

William I'Anson (died 1800) and Martha I'Anson (died 1794)

To the Memory of
WILLIAM I’ANSON Esqr
of Cotgrave-Place in this Parish,
who departed this Life
on the 26th day of October 1800;
in the 60th Year of his Age.
And also to the Memory of
MARTHA his Wife,
who departed this Life
on the 29th day of August 1794;
in the 56th Year of her Age.

Floor Stones

Godfrey (1907) recorded the inscriptions of several floor stones in the church:

‘A floor stone is inscribed:—“ HERE lies interr’d the Body of MARGARET SCRIMSHIRE, Spinster, who died ye 15th May 1748, aged 67.”

The late Lieut.-Col. A. E. Lawson Lowe, F.S.A., supplied us with the following inscriptions in September, 1885 :—

“Within a recent period there were certainly three legible floor-stones in the chancel at Cotgrave. Besides the one given herein, I copied the two following:—

Here Lies the Remains of Ann Scrimshire the Second Daughter of John Scrimshire, Gent, of this Place, who departed this Life — day of August, 1755 Aged LV years.

Here Lieth the Body of Mary Scrimshire (Eldest Daughter of John Scrimshire, Gentleman) who Died the [10th] of July 1758, Aged Sixty . . .”

During the alterations to the chancel in 1899-1900 four partly obliterated floorstones were noticed, the inscriptions on which have been re-cut:—

(1)
IOHANNIS SCRIMSHIRE
Gen: senior 1669

(2)
IOHANNIS SCRIMSHIRE GEN
Senior 1669
HERE ALSOE LYETH THE
BODYES OF MARGARETT
AND BRYAN. SCRIMSHIRE

(3)
2 CHILDREN OF JOHN
SCRIMSHIRE GEN AND
MARY HIS WIFE WHO DIED
THE THIRDANDFOURTH DAYES
OF JULY ANNO

(4)
HERE LyETH THE BODy
OF MISTRESS SCRIMSHIRE
THE WIFE OF WILLIAM
SCRIMSHIRE GENT WHO
DIED THE I7o OF MARCH
ANO DNI
1682'

During the restoration of the church following the arson attack in 1996 the floor slabs of several members of the Scrimshaw family were removed from the chancel and relaid in the churchyard near the chancel door and close to the tower door.

Other Monuments

Documentary research has brought to light other monuments in the church that have not survived to the present day (2020).

Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire (1925) records that a memorial had been 'placed [on the west nave wall of the church] in 1907 to Thomas Wood Mensing, for many years parish clerk and schoolmaster.' Mensing had died on 11 October 1906, aged 70.

The Grantham Journal reports that in February 1920 an oak tablet to Dorothy White, who died 11 November 1918, had been unveiled in the ringing chamber. White was a member of the local company of ringers.