"To John Finn, died June 9th, 1813, aged 30 years."
Occasionally, too, some plain device appears on even a modern headstone, such as the following, which is one of the few I have from the London area. The graves of the same half-century may be searched without finding many carvings more ambitious than this.
FIG. 53.—AT ST. JAMES'S, BERMONDSEY.
"To Charles Thomas Henry Evans, died 1849."
Churchyards beside the Upper Thames are nearly all prolific in old gravestones, the riparian settlements having been well populated during the favourable period. This is especially the case at Richmond and Twickenham, but of the great number of eighteenth-century stones in both churchyards there are few very remarkable. Richmond has a rare specimen of the full-relief skull. The death's head has on either side of it the head of an angel in half-relief. The stone is a double one, and I have never met its fellow.
FIG. 54.—AT RICHMOND.
"To Annie Smedley (?), died 1711, aged
90 years."