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Fagge Memorial, Brenzett church
Memorial to John Fagge (reclining on elbow) and son, also John,(Supine).
John Fagge was Bailiff of Romney Marsh, and married Helen or Adryn Cobb from Canterbury. He had two sons, his heir John who shares the tomb, and William and "fower" daughters, Elizabeth, Catherine, Mary and Ellen. He died in 1639.
Son John married Elizabeth Hodgeson and had one son, another John, and one daughter. He Died in 1646 (some authorities say 1645).
The crests on the front of the memorial show the arms of Fagge and Cobb on the left, and Fagge and Hodgeson on the right. The ends feature the Fagge arms and memento mori.
The tomb is supposed to have inspired E. Nesbit's story "Man-size in marble"...
"Well, sir" — she sank her voice — "you may have seen in the church, beside the altar, two shapes."
"You mean the effigies of the knights in armour," I said cheerfully.
"I mean them two bodies, drawed out man-size in marble," she returned, and I had to admit that her description was a thousand times more graphic than mine, to say nothing of a certain weird force and uncanniness about the phrase "drawed out man-size in marble."
"They do say, as on All Saints' Eve them two bodies sits up on their slabs, and gets off of them, and then walks down the aisle, in their marble" — (another good phrase, Mrs. Dorman) — "and as the church clock strikes eleven they walks out of the church door, and over the graves, and along the bier-balk, and if it's a wet night there's the marks of their feet in the morning."
John Fagge was Bailiff of Romney Marsh, and married Helen or Adryn Cobb from Canterbury. He had two sons, his heir John who shares the tomb, and William and "fower" daughters, Elizabeth, Catherine, Mary and Ellen. He died in 1639.
Son John married Elizabeth Hodgeson and had one son, another John, and one daughter. He Died in 1646 (some authorities say 1645).
The crests on the front of the memorial show the arms of Fagge and Cobb on the left, and Fagge and Hodgeson on the right. The ends feature the Fagge arms and memento mori.
The tomb is supposed to have inspired E. Nesbit's story "Man-size in marble"...
"Well, sir" — she sank her voice — "you may have seen in the church, beside the altar, two shapes."
"You mean the effigies of the knights in armour," I said cheerfully.
"I mean them two bodies, drawed out man-size in marble," she returned, and I had to admit that her description was a thousand times more graphic than mine, to say nothing of a certain weird force and uncanniness about the phrase "drawed out man-size in marble."
"They do say, as on All Saints' Eve them two bodies sits up on their slabs, and gets off of them, and then walks down the aisle, in their marble" — (another good phrase, Mrs. Dorman) — "and as the church clock strikes eleven they walks out of the church door, and over the graves, and along the bier-balk, and if it's a wet night there's the marks of their feet in the morning."
Created: Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Updated: Wed, 9 Jan 2013
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