Fragment from a Memorial
Name/Title
Fragment from a Memorial
Medium and Materials
Stone
Public Description (About this object)
A dark stone (possibly painted) fragment from a memorial, showing a shield, quartered with a knight's helmet surrounded with scrolled leaves within a circle. Above the helmet is a unicorn, missing its nose and horn. The crest features a lion couchant, two headed eagles, thistles, roses and Maltese crosses, The memorial likely dates from the former St Martin-in-the-Fields church, 1544-1721.
Subject and Association Description
According to the Bob Speel website on Church Monuments, these are the remains from the spacious marble tomb and monument to William Cooke, son of Sir Anthony Cooke of Giddea Hall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cooke_(of_Highnam) and http://www.speel.me.uk/chlondon/stmartinitf.htm
Object number
SMITF.H.59