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Title
Memorial to Sir Robert Stanley
Date
1632
Medium
alabaster & black marble
Accession number
SW3_JR_S036
Work type
Tomb or mausoleum
Owner
Chelsea Old Church
Custodian
Chelsea Old Church
Work status
extant
Access
time restrictions apply
Access note
Church opening times.
Inscription description
around upper edge of cover stone: To the faire memorie of the Trvely Honorable Sr ROBERT STANLEY kt of the Noble order of ye Bath and seacond sonne to ye right Hoble WILLIAM EARLE OF DARBIE whoe deceased ye 3 day of Jannary ano Dñi 1632 left-hand panel: To say a STANLEY lyes here that a lone / Were Epitaph enough noe Brass noe Stone / Noe glorious Tombe noe Monumentall Hearse / Noe guilded Trophy or lamp labourd verse / Can dignifie this Graue or sett it forth / Like the Immortall same of his owne Worth / Then reader fixe not here but quitt this Roome / And flye to Abram's bossome theres his Tombe / There rests his Soule & for his other parts / They are imbalm'd & lodg'd in good men's harts / A brauer monument of Stone or Lyme / No Arte can rayse for this shall out last tyme.; right-hand panel: To ye lastinge memorie of two of his children / that is to say Fardinando Stanley his sonne & / Henrite Maria Stanley his davghter whoe lye / bvryed with in this his Sepvlcher / The Eagle Death greedie of some good prey / Wth nimble Eyes found where these Infants laye / He truste them in his Tallents and conveyed / There Soules to Heauen & here theire ashes layde / Lett no prophane Hand then these Reliques seuer / But as they lye soe lett them rest for euer.
Chelsea Old Church, Chelsea
SW3 5LT
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