Sutton Bonington
St Anne

Monuments and Memorials

Nave

There are several memorial plaques on the south wall of the nave.

There is a memorial in the shape of a battlefield cross to W. G. Ball who was killed in action at Arras on 9 April, 1917. The inscription reads:

IN
MEMORY OF
W.G. BALL
R.I.P.
ROYAL FUSILIERS
AGED 19 YEARS
WHO
WAS
KILLED
IN
ACTION
AT
ARRAS
APRIL 9TH
1917.

A brass plaque memorial to Admiral Sir W. King Hall (1816-1886):

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY
OF HIS FAITHFUL SERVANT
ADMIRAL
SIR W. KING HALL, K.C.B.
BORN MARCH 11TH 1816 + DIED JULY 29TH 1886

THIS BRASS IS ERECTED
BY MANY IN THIS PLACE
WHO THANK GOD
FOR HIS GOOD EXAMPLE.

A stone plaque commemorating Major Charles R. Tennant (1851-1937):

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
MAJOR
CHARLES RICHARD TENNANT
LATE 2ND LIFE GUARDS
OF
ST. ANN'S MANOR
A.D. 1851-1937

Chancel

Alabaster Effigy

This mutilated effigy, set on a new slab in a recess in the north wall of the chancel, is known as ‘Old Lion Gray’. The hands and forefeet are gone; the helmet broken; the face battered; the misericorde, bawdric and ‘long sword at his left side’ (which William Stretton saw in 1819) are gone. There is no remnant of inscription or armorial bearing.

The effigy is that of a Yorkist, John or Thomas Staunton, time of Edward IV., 1461-1481: as shown by the effigy itself and other evidence.

He wears the livery collar of suns and roses (Roses en soleil) adopted by Edward IV. after the battles of Mortimer's Cross and Towton and worn till the accession of Henry VII., the Lancastrian, 1485, who revived the use of the S.S. Collar. Attached to the collar is the pendant ‘Lion of March’. Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, married Philippa, daughter of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, and was father of Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, who was great-grandfather of Edward IV. The armour is that of the Yorkist period. (Druitts' ‘Costume in Brasses’, p. 169). The hair cut short in a roll, the ‘hausse col’ of chain mail, the ‘demi-placates’, the ‘pauldrons’ with ridges, the ‘gardes de bras’ and the ‘taces’. The ‘bawdric’ or horizontal belt is gone, so he may have been a knight or an esquire.

Brass Plaques

On the north wall of the chancel is a brass plaque in memory of Catherine Bramley (died 1895):

S.M.
CATHERINE BRAMLEY
WHO LABOURED MUCH FOR THE WELFARE OF
THIS CHOIR AND WAS SUDDENLY CALLED AWAY
APRIL 15TH, 1895, AGED 34 YEARS.

SHE HATH DONE WHAT SHE COULD.

There are several brass memorial plaques in memory of past members of the choir on the north choir stalls:

JOHN NEVILLE BAKER
CHURCHWARDEN & CHOIRMASTER
DIED 7TH NOVEMBER 1965
AGED 61 YEARS

S.M.
George Wheeler,
Departed 14th October 1898
Aged 28.
With good will doing service as
unto the Lord.

S.M.
THOMAS VICKERSTAFFE,
FOR 40 YEARS A MEMBER
OF SUTTON S. ANNE CHOIR,
DIED MARCH 7TH 1913,
R.I.P.

There are two plaques on the south choir stalls:

S.M.
ALFRED TONGUE,
A CHORISTER OF THIS CHURCH
DEPARTED 6TH JUNE, 1890,
AGED 13.