Westbourne Church Memorial Inscriptions
A transcription of the memorial inscriptions at St John the Baptist Church, Westbourne, West Sussex, compiled by the Rev. J.H. Sperling and covering burials from 1679 to the 1860s. The first 36 entries are chancel monuments with heraldic detail — rare for a parish of this size. The remaining 316 churchyard entries record names and dates alphabetically. Westbourne is a small parish on the West Sussex and Hampshire border whose inscriptions are rarely found in indexed form.
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- 1. On the north wall, by Nollekins, arms Barwell barry of 10, argent and gules, a griffin segreant vert. Crest, a demi wolf, erm., pierced in the shoulder by a dart, ppr. :— "To the memory of Henry Barwell, Esq., seventh son of William Barwell, Esq., deceased, of Chertsey Abbey, Surrey. He died Oct. 22, 1785, aged 31. Erected in the year 1786 by his brothers Richard, James, and Thomas Smith Barwell, Esquires.
- 2. On the north wall, also by Nollekins, arms on a hatchment above, Barwell and crest imp. Coffin, arg. a chevron between 3 mullets sab:— "This monument is erected to the memory of Richard Barwell, Esq., of Stansted Park, in the county of Sussex; who, in the service of the Hon. E.C.C., during a period of 23 years, attained to such situations of trust and emolument as his talents and unblemished reputation most justly entitled him. With an understanding strong and cultivated, and a mind open and honourable, were united other qualities rare and estimable, and by all who could appreciate affection to his family, attachment to his friends, and benevolence widely spread around, he was respected when living, and died lamented, on the 2nd day of September, 1804, in the 62nd year of his age." * Mr. Barwell married Catherine, daughter of Admiral Coffin, who, after his death, married Edward Miller Mundy, Esq., of Shipley Hall, co. Derby. (See inscription No. 24.)
- 3. On the south side of the chancel:— "To the memory of Edward Barwell, Esq. (son of Mr, Barwell, of Stansted), of the Hon. E.C.C. Civil Service, who departed this life on the 6th of March, 1846, and of Sophia his wife, who departed this life on the 14th of April, in the same year. Also to the memory of their five children — Edward D’Oyley, 1840. Richard Bensley, 1839. Henry Montague, 1837. Charles Eliot, 1841. (See inscp. in chyd., No. 28.) Augusta Charlotte, 1836. This tablet is erected by the widow of Edward D’Oyley Barwell Esq."
- 4. On the south wall of the chancel:— "Sacred to the memory of the Reverend William De Chair Tattersall, A.M. fifty years Rector of this Parish, and one of the chaplains in ordinary to His Majesty. He died March 26, 1829, aged 77. He was deeply regretted by his wife and children. Elizabeth Ward, sister-in-law of the Rector, died on the 15th of August, 1825, aged 63 years. ‘Justorum animæ in Manu Dei sunt.’ Mary, relict of the above-named W.D. Tattersall, died on the 2nd of November, 1852, aged 95." Arms from Hatchment. Tattersall, sable, a chevron between 3 tigers, passant, or. impaling Ward, az. a cross moline, or.
- 5. On the south wall of the chancel;— "Thomas Farley; Reg. Brit. Navis. Leven. Nuper. Quaest. Juveni. Christiano. et exim. qui. vixit. per. spat. ann. XXXIV., men. VI., d. XVII. Fide cognitæ memores caritatis ejus parentes, fratres, sorores, piet. plen. p., A. R. D. MDCCCXXVI."
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