Relhan Collection : 352 Westley Waterless. Ancient tomb in church

Relhan, Richard, 1782-1844

Relhan Collection

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>Drawn by S Lysons</p><p>Cole in 1752 described ‘<i>a very neat and ancient monument of stone...a young man in praying posture and in a short kind of coat,.... with a couple of angels at his head, one of which is entirely gone, and the other beheaded’</i>. Tudor-Craig describes this C14 effigy of a civilian with an angel plumping up his pillow as a real rarity, but angels at the head are quite commonly recognised now. His effigy is adjacent and at right angles to the de Creke brass (<b>330</b>) just below a W window in the S aisle, as shown by Lysons. The clunch is worn and battered, especially the face, angels at the head and a dog at the feet, and this damage must have been deliberate. The effigy is of a young man, originally positioned parallel to the Creke brass. As he is in civilian clothes he cannot be one of John de Creke’s warrior sons, and a likely candidate is Vauncy the younger (d. 1389), who inherited Westley Waterless but died before he came of age.</p><p>Palmer 1932; Kinsey 2020; Tudor-Craig in Hicks 1997; VCH 1978; Gittos 2019</p></p>