This has Viking Christian carvings from the previous church. John the Baptist from the 1200s in Stanwick, North Yorkshire. The churchyard’s beautiful setting is extraordinary, within the elevated circular Saxon boundary of St. Some of the words and the iambic pentameter echo Oberon’s monologue in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mary Ann’s parents could well have been employed in the now demolished Stanwick Hall or on the surrounding estate of the Duke of Northumberland, with the opportunity for some education or educated help. The composition is original for the monument and is of a high educational standard. This was masoned in delicate script to the rear of the headstone of Caleb and Elizabeth Cowle, grandparents of Mary Ann Cowle, who died in 1825 at the age of ten. Heaven saw, and early mark’d thee for its own. Too good for earth perhaps or lov’d too much. Such was thy fate dear child, thy opening such Some careful gardener plucks it ere it blows Perchance a violet rears its purple head:
A Regency epitaph for a child August 4, 2021
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