Interior of Buckland Monachorum Church, with Lord Heathfield's monument ([1832])

J. Henshall
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Devon West Country Studies M SC0302
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[1832]
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Spreat, William. Picturesque sketches of the churches of Devon. Exeter: W. Spreat, 1842.61. Buckland Monachorum.[…]. At the eastern end of the south aisle is a beautiful monument, by Bacon, to Lord Heathfield, the celebrated defender of Gibraltar; it is a mural monument, the basement part of which has a projecting tablet bearing a long inscription which enumerates the achievements of the hero; on the right of it a bas relief of General Elliot, giving his commands to one of his officers, who holds a lighted torch; and on the left, another representing the destruction of the Spanish fleet, one vessel is seen on fire, and a boat's crew endeavouring to save the drowning men from a floating piece of wreck. Over the tablet stands a group consisting of a female figure in a most graceful attitude, representing Britannia, and a boy wearing her helmet and leaning on her shield, with an olive branch in one hand and a key in the other. This beautiful group is finely relieved by a back ground of grey marble, which is again backed by marble of a darker colour. Over them is a medallion head of Lord Heathfield, half encircled with a wreath; on either side of the principal group is a half circular bas relief of a cannon pointed downwards, and the furnace used for heating the shot. Near this splendid monument is another by the same master hand to the memory of Sir Francis Henry Drake, bart. of Buckland Abbey, who died the 19th of February, 1794, aged 70 years. Above the tablet is a figure of truth, holding a wreath over an urn; a medallion bearing the arms of the deceased appears suspended above. This monument was erected by the second Lord Heathfield, whose memory is perpetuated in one which is placed close by it, executed by the younger Bacon; over the tablet is a group of warlike instruments, in the centre of which is a drum with a flag drooping over it; above are the arms of the deceased, who died January 26th, 1813, aged 63 years. In the north aisle is a tablet to the memory of John Burrows, junr. first-lieutenant of H. M. S. Courageux, who perished when that ship was wrecked near Ceuta.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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1832