MIs on East and South church walls

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Memorial inscriptions on the East and South walls and windows of Waters Upton St Michael

East wall

Stained glass window dedications –

Left window: TO THE GLORY OF GOD IN MEMORY / OF JOHN RIDER M R C S OF WELLINGTON

(No dedication on middle window)

Right window: BORN SEP 9 1822 DIED FEB 10 1887 / ERECTED BY HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS

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South wall

White stone tablet with black lettering, above door to vestry –

IN MEMORY OF
ADMIRAL
SIR ARTHUR JOHN DAVIES, C.B., K.B.E.,
WHO DIED 15 DECEMBER 1954,
AGED 77 YEARS.
SECOND SON OF JOHN BAYLEY DAVIES,
RECTOR OF THIS PARISH,
AND SUSAN ANSLOW, HIS WIFE.
ALSO OF THEIR FOURTH SON
THE RIGHT REVEREND
STEPHEN HARRIS DAVIES, M.A.,
BISHOP OF CARPENTARIA FROM 1922 TO 1949.
WHO DIED IN AUSTRALIA 29 NOVEMBER 1961.
AGED 78 YEARS.

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Small green plaque with yellow lettering, between door to vestry and the organ –

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ALICE ROBERTSON
1880 – 1972
Daughter of Rev: J. B. Davies
and sometime organist here.

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Stained glass windows (not photographed – no dedication, or if there is, I missed it)

Five brass plaques mounted together on a tablet between the stained glass windows  –

Top:

HERE LYETH INTERRED THE
BODY OF WILLIAM JAMES MR.
OF ARTS AND LATE RECTOR
OF THIS CHVRCH WHO AF
TER HE HAD LABOURED
HERE IN THE WORD AND
DOCTRINE 64 YEARES DE
CEASED Ye 14 FEBRUARY
IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
1691 AND OF HIS AGE 82.

Middle, left:

Sacred to the Memory of the
REVD. THO. HATTON,
Rector of this Parish,
43 YEARS.
DIED MAY 18,
1807,
Aged 72.

Bottom, left:

Also
Leonora Wife of the above
Thos. Hatton
Died Jan 27 1814
Aged 91 Years.

Middle, right:

Here lie the remains
of the
REVD. ROBT. HILL,
late Rector of this Parish
who departed this life
ON THE 13TH OF JAN.
1815,
AGED 41.

Bottom, right:

SACRED
to the memory of
Eliza Green Hill
who departed this life
June 3rd 1826 aged 23.

Inscribed on the foot of the tablet: These brasses were taken from Tombstones which were on the floor of the aisle of the old Church. 1864

(Below the tablet hangs a framed list of the “Incumbents of Waters Upton,” which is surrounded by five framed illustrations of the church.)

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Stained glass window dedication –

Left window: To the Glory of God / and in loving memory of

Middle window: Mary Elizabeth only daughter / of the late Rev. S. Hobson / Vicar of Tuttington, Norfolk.

Right window: Who died at Waters / Upton July 3 1917

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Large benefaction table –

A TABLE OF BENEFACTIONS
OF
John Wase, Councillor of
SHREWSBURY, by his last Will
Dated Aprill 6th. 1715;
I desire to be inter’d in the Chancel
which I built in WATERS UPTON.
I Give the Croft which I have by
Sutton Lane in Coleham, to my
Executor and to my eldest Son
and their Heirs in TRUST for
ever that they pay yearly thereout
Twenty Six shillings to the Poor
of St. CHADS Almshouses in
SHREWSBURY and five shillings
to the Drapers Company, and all the
clear yearly rent to the Poor of the
Parish of Waters Upton for ever at
such times as they can receive the same

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