Salwarpe Church, Worcs,Monument to Canon Douglas. 1899
Saturday 18.03.1899 p5 Worcestershire Chronicle
LOCAL NEWS
THE LATE CANON DOUGLAS – The family memorial of the late Canon W. W. Douglas, Rector of Salwarpe, has recently been placed in the churchyard of that parish. It consists of a recumbent monument of the best Forest of Dean stone, richly moulded all round, and having on top a large cross, in the centre of which is carved a vesica, and ancient Christian symbol, found on some of the sarcophagi of the early Christians in Rome. In the centre of the vesica are the letters “I.H.S.” The inscription on the tomb is as follows: “William Willoughby Douglas, Priest. Rector of this parish for forty-eight years. Born July 13, 1824. Died February 19, 1898.”
LOCAL NEWS
THE LATE CANON DOUGLAS – The family memorial of the late Canon W. W. Douglas, Rector of Salwarpe, has recently been placed in the churchyard of that parish. It consists of a recumbent monument of the best Forest of Dean stone, richly moulded all round, and having on top a large cross, in the centre of which is carved a vesica, and ancient Christian symbol, found on some of the sarcophagi of the early Christians in Rome. In the centre of the vesica are the letters “I.H.S.” The inscription on the tomb is as follows: “William Willoughby Douglas, Priest. Rector of this parish for forty-eight years. Born July 13, 1824. Died February 19, 1898.”
