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| Monument to Edward Dixon | ||||||||||
| monument | memorial | ||||||||||
| slate | ||||||||||
| Landscape format slate (?) slab, well cut Roman caps. | ||||||||||
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| Latin | ||||||||||
| Sacred to the shades [or memory] of the deceased father, whom – alas! – his son had never seen, and the blessed mother, who merited the highest filial affection; in token of his piety and of a grateful mind, their son B DIXON, hath erected this monument A D 1749. | ||||||||||
| 1749 | ||||||||||
| Burial register: Edward, s of Henry Dixon, Shire, 6 July 1749. 1823: “South aisle of the Choir … On a black stone inserted in a neat white case hid beneath a flight of stairs to a gallery— …” [“History of Hexham”, A.B. Wright, 1823, p.98 & 118] | ||||||||||
| North Transept/Floor | ||||||||||
| CND: NTAF1; NCH3 p.197; A B Wright, 1823, pp98 & 118 | ||||||||||