Chest tombs and headstone of Carr, Warburton and Berry
1 = back
right
2 = front right
3 = back left
4 = front left
Inscriptions on chest 1:
"Joseph Warburton of Cliffgate
died July 28 1788"
"Ann, wife of John Berry 1800"
(+ son)
Inscriptions
on chest 2:
"John Warburton Berry late of Stoke upon Trent
died Aug 6th 1810
also Sarah Berry, daughter of the above
also John Johnson Berry, son of the above"
Inscriptions
on chest 3:
"1784 aged 39 yrs
Ann - wife of Joseph Warburton"
Inscriptions
on chest 4:
"Here lieth the body of Jane ye wife
of George Carr of Penkhull who
departed this life ye 2d day of February
in the year of our Lord 1776 aged
30 years"
photo:
Steve Birks July 2000
4 Chest Tombs and a headstone.
Early 18th Century, late 18th Century early 19th
Century. Stone.
The tombs which are all similarly detailed with
inscribed slabs forming the long sides and angle pilasters like
balusters, commemorates members of the Carr, Berry and Warburton
families who died between 1776 and 1846.
Berry tomb inscribed on the top slab, the base
repaired in brick. Across the east end of this tomb, there is a
headstone with 2 round arched panels - no longer legible, but
probably early 18th Century.
