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Valentine or Valuntine Banks headstone

Memorials

Headstone – Valentine Banks

Catalogue ID: 649

Description

Broken-off headstone with worn, but still largely legible, inscription to Valentine (here spelled 'Valuntine') Banks (1764-1834), mariner.

Inscription and donor(s)

Sacred

to the Memory of
VALUNTINE BANKS
Mariner of this Port
who departed this Life
May the 24:th 1[83]4
Aged 70 Years.

Subjects

Forename(s) Family name Dates
Valentine Banks 1834

Physical attributes & manufacture

Material
Stone

Location

2022
South Choir Yard
Burial ground at West End, centre of section S of central path (Barton, 1860)

Condition

November 2022

Broken off from lower part of stone, but inscription legible for the most part.

References

J Barton, Monumental Inscription in Holy Trinity Churchyard (1860), published as Holy Trinity (Churchyard only) Monumental Inscriptions, EYFHS (2005), no. 516

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