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ID:SDV15569
Title:The blowing up of Great Torrington church
Originator:Doe, G. M.
Date:1894
Summary:Parish church. The only tombstone dating before the blowing up of the old church in 1645, and which was in the church at the time of its restoration in 1864, has disappeared. To John Clarke and his wife. Removed probably during alterations to the flooring of the church. Epitaph preserved by Wescote in his View of Devonshire, "two lie underneath this stone, rather the two halves of one. Two they were, so like, so even natured, statured, bred, that heaven made them one by wedlock knot; whom e'en death divided not".

Associated Monuments (2)

MDV2628Clarke Tombstone, St Michael and All Angels, Great Torrington (Monument)
MDV2627Great Torrington, St Michael and All Angels (Building)