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English: Mural monument, chancel of St Mary's Church, Winterborne Stickland. Inscribed:
Sacred to the Memory of Mrs Honor Clavering the most virtuous and entirely beloved wife of Mr Rob't Clavering Rector of this place who to the inexpressible greif of her Husband departed this life June the 13th Anno Dom. 1708 Aet 47 Close by are interred three of their children Ann born Aug 5th deceased Oct 5th 1689; Robert born Oct 4th 1691 deceased Nov 24th 1691; Honor born Nov 11th 1698, deceased the same day. In the same grave with his beloved Wife lyeth the S'd Robert Clavering formerly Fellow of Kings Coll. Cam. And Rector of this place 50 years He deceased the 2nd June 1735 In the 80th year of his Age. Resurgemus ("we will rise again").

Arms: de Clavering (Quarterly or and gules, overall a bend sable) impaling West of Shillingstone (Argent, a fess dancettée sable), for his wife Honor West. Arms of West, Earl de la Warr. w:John de Clavering (died 1332), lord of the manor of Clavering in Essex, adopted the surname de Clavering. He was the son and heir of Robert FitzRoger, lord of Warkworth and Clavering. The family was a junior branch descended from w:Richard fitz Eustace (d.circa 1163), of Halton Castle in Cheshire, Hereditary Constable of Chester and Baron of Halton, whose attributed arms were: Quarterly or and gules.

Described as follows: "On S. wall, (2) of Honor Clavering, 1708, and the Rev. Robert Clavering, 1735, rector, wall-monument (Plate 38) with cherub-head console, scrolled apron with cartouche-of-arms of Clavering impaling West of Shillingstone, heavily gadrooned string-course, inscription-tablet flanked by scrolled cheek-pieces with fruit and flower swags, and entablature and broken segmental pediment with vase and lamp finials"; (Source: 'Winterborne Stickland', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 3, Central (London, 1970), pp. 305-309[1])
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