Monumental Inscription Detail

Place:

St Mary Magdalene, Tortington

Inscription:

REMEMBER YE IN THE LORD, GEORGE COSENS COOTE FOR MORE
THAN 50 YEARS WARDEN OF THIS CHURCH, WHO REBUILT THE SOUTH
AISLE AFTER IT HAD LAIN IN RUINS 200 YEARS AND DIRECTED THESE
WINDOWS TO BE PLACED HERE TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE ADNORNMENT
OF HIS SANCTUARY. HE DIED JANUARY 15TH 1892 AGED 77 YEARS.

Monument details:

Type: Brass.

Monument Condition: Unknown.

Inscription Condition: Unknown.

Person commemorated (or mentioned):

Last name: Coote.

First Name(s): George Cosens.

Birth date: Not given.

Death date: 15 Jan 1892.

Age: 77.

Comments:

The two windows are by Charles Kempe, whose trademark, a wheatsheaf, is in the lower left hand border of the westernmost light. The subjects are St Richard, Bishop of Chichester 1244-53 and St Mary Magdalene.

Transcription details:

Transcribed by: Mark Collins.

Batch: Unknown.

Image:

Image of a monument

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