Memorial tablet to Jane Floyde

In the Norman Lady Chapel is a small brass memorial tablet to Jane Floyde who died in 1616, a young wife of a former Rector, Hugo Floyde 1610-1631. The tablet shows her in an attitude of devotion. She is "wearing an enormous ruff and hood; the little ones left desolate by her death are shown in their pathetic helplessness -a tiny baby in a cradle, and two older children in small beds, with two others at prayer. The simple inscription written apparently by the sorrowing husband, adds to the pathos of it all" (Arthur Mee).

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