Dame Katherine Paston memorial - St Margaret - Paston, Norfolk
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Lady (Dame) Katherine Paston memorial by Nicholas Stone, foremost sculptor of his age, with an inscription by John Donne the Elizabethan/Jacobean poet better known for his romantic poetry. St Margsret's church, Paston.
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Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/26/2016
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On the north side of the chancel, and the reason why the window here is blocked, is the life-size figure of Dame Katherine Paston (nee Knevet, who died in 1628) reclining beneath a black, white and pink alabaster confection of pillars, arches, figures and a crowned skull. It is by Nicholas Stone, the master-mason to King Charles I, who was frequently employed by the Paston family, with an inscription by John Donne the Elizabethan/Jacobean poet better known for his romantic poetry, who was Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, London.
Her inscription assures us that "not that she needeth monument of stone for her well-gotten fame to rest upp on, but this was reard to testifie that shee lives in their loves that yet surviving be. For untoe virtue whoe first raised her name shee left the preservation of the same, and to posterity remaine it shall when marble monuments decaye shall all".
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