'Death, like an overflowing stream
Sweeps us away; our life's a dream,
An empty tale, a morning flower,
Cut down and withered in an hour.'

Ann and Benjamin Harrold, 1853/5 at St Hilda, Hartlepool. The words are from Isaac Watts' metrical version of Psalm 90. #MemorialsMonday

Sir William Bulmer, 1531 at St Hilda's, Hartlepool. He stands above fragmentary Saxon and Norman stonework unearthed when Walter Caroe extended the chancel in the 1920s. He was long thought to be one of the Brus or Bruce family, who had a mausoleum on this site. #MemorialsMonday #MonumentsMonday

2/2 Indeed, it would not be unfair to say that M R James did not write so well as Falkner at novel length.

Like James, Falkner was an antiquarian and an academic.The arms on his memorial are a Nebuly Coat. In the novel of that name they appear in an abbey based on Durham Cathedral.
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Katherine of Aragon was buried in Peterborough Cathedral on 29th January 1536.

The original tomb was damaged during the Civil War. Now a simple black marble slab marks her last resting place.

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