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Wall memorial - E. wall of Perrott aisle - to Sir James and Dame Clarissa Musgrave - d. 1814 & 1823.
are deposited the mortal remains of Sir James MUSGRAVE of Barnsley Park, in the county of Gloucester, baronet, who departed this life the 27th of April A.D.1814, In the 63rd year of his age he was the eighth baronet and representative of the family of the Musgraves of Hayton Castle, in the county of Cumberland, to whom the baronetcy was granted in the year 1638. He fulfilled all the quiet and unostentatious duties of private and domestic life in a most exemplary manner and died as he had lived, a pious Christian, in the firm and well grounded hope of a blessed immortality, in him the poor lost a valuable and constant benefactor. His wife and children a truly affectionate husband, father and friend. (Second inscription) -- In the same vault are deposited the remains of Dame Clarissa, wife of the above Sir James MUSGRAVE daughter and heiress of Thomas BLACKALL, Esqre. of Ewelme, in the county of Oxford. She departed this life on the 7th of January 1823, in the 65th year of her age. after patiently enduring a long and painful illness Her kindness of heart and unaffected elegance of manners, justly endeared her to a numerous circle of friends, and her six surviving children, deeply lamenting the irreparable loss they have sustained in the death of the best of mothers, have erected this stone sacred to her memory [Rectangular marble inscription tablet with flanking pilasters supporting a grey marble pediment with edge of white marble. In the centre a closed urn, a calyx of leaves, with draped cloth. White marble decorated wings flank the tablet against the wall. Below a white marble inscribed tablet with grey marble apron on which is a winged cherub. All lettering is incised Roman caps.]
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