Description

SX 45 SW MAKER-WITH-RAME

6/46 Chubb monument in the churchyard
about 3 metres north of tower of
Church of St. Mary and St. Julian
GV II

Headstone. C18. Slate. Segmental head with rounded shoulders, lined border.
Verses describing how John Chubb, aged 3 years and 9 months, died after swallowing a
stone: "Harsh were the cries and every piercing groan/ Caus'd by the racking Torment
of the Stone...", with a pebble carved in the slate the same size as the one the
child swallowed. Inscriptions to two other infant deaths in the same family. John
Chubb died 1790.

Listing NGR: SX4461951995

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614396

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)