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Summary

Stone, triangulated head with short projecting arms, curved on the underside, with inscriptions to Edward Capern and his wife Jane who both died In1894. Above inscription is a small recess with cusped head containing Capern's postman's bell of metal with wooden handle, but no clapper.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS53NW/5/4
• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 98436

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• GRAVESTONE (XVIII to XXI - 1751 AD to 2009 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of Environment, 1985, Heanton Punchardon, 97 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV86763.

Gravestone to Edward Capern, died 1894. Stone, triangulated head with short projecting arms, curved on the underside. Inscription to Edward Capern. The Postman Poet (born Tiverton 1819, died Braunton 1894) with verse by Alfred Austin, the Poet Laureate. Also to Jane Capern, wife of Edward (died 1894) with verse by Capern:
"I'd be remembered for some word I said
Some thought immortal, winged with passing breath;
But more for one true tender-hearted deed
Since such sweet things the world doth sorely need."
Above inscription is a small recess with cusped head containing Capern's postman's bell of metal with wooden handle, but no clapper. Other details: LBS 98436.

Wessex Archaeology, 2007, RMB Chivenor Flood Defence Scheme Barnstaple, Devon: Archaeological Desk-based Assessment, 9 (Report - Assessment). SDV342125.

Other details: WA 33.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4490 - RMB Chivenor Flood Defence Scheme Barnstaple, Devon: Archaeological Desk-based Assessment

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