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Title*

Headstone of Captain Manby
County Norfolk   District Council Kings Lynn 
Civil Parish or equivalent Hilgay  Town/Village* Hilgay 
Road Ely Road 
Precise Location All Saints Hilgay Churchyard To south of southern aisle 
OS Grid Ref TL623981  Postcode PE38 
Previous location(s)  
Setting Churchyard  Access Public 
Artist/Maker Role Qualifier
Not known     

Commissioned by

 Family of Captain Manby 

Design & Constrn period

 1854 

Date of installing

  

Exact date of unveiling

  

Category
Abstract Animal Architectural
Commercial Commemorative Composite
Free Functional Funerary
Heraldic Military Natural
Non-Commemorative Performance Portable
Religious Roadside, Wayside Sculptural
Temporary, Mobile Other  

Object Type
Building Clock Tower Architectural
Coat of Arms Cross Fountain
Landscape Marker Medallion
Mural Panel Readymade
Relief Shaft Sculpture
Statue Street Furniture War Memorial
Other Object Sub Type: Headstone

Subject Type
Allegorical Mythological Pictorial
Figurative Non-figurative Portrait
Still-life Symbolic Other

Subject Sub Type
Bust Equestrian Full-length
Group Head Reclining
Seated Standing Torso
Part Material Dimension
Memorial to Captain Manby  Limestone  H. 114 W.74 cms. 

Work is
Extant Not Sited Lost

Owner/Custodian

 All Saints Hilgay Parochial Church Council 

Listing status
Grade I Grade II* Grade II Don't Know Not Listed

Surface Condition
Corrosion, Deterioration Accretions
Bird Guano Abrasions, cracks, splits
Biological growth Spalling, crumbling
Metallic staining Previous treatments
Other  
Detail: Very worn and now difficult to read

Structural Condition
Armature exposed Broken or missing parts
Replaced parts Loose elements
Cracks, splits, breaks, holes Spalling, crumbling
Water collection Other
Detail:

Vandalism
Graffiti Structural damage Surface Damage
Detail:

Overall condition
Good Fair Poor

Risk
No Known Risk At Risk Immediate
Signatures/Marks  
Inscriptions HERE LIES THE BODY OF GEORGE WILLIAM MANBY BORN 1715 DIED 1854 INVENTOR OF A MORTAR FOR SAVING LIFE IN SHIPWRECK 

Description (physical)

 The three roundels show on left Mortar to fire the line; centre ship with the line aboard; right, anchor. There is a clearer picture of Manby's invention in action on the relief from his garden in Southtown, Great Yarmouth, now in the Time and Tide Museum, Great Yarmouth, where it is accompanied by a mortar and the safety harness. 

Description (iconographical)

 Born at Denver in 1765, Manby became Barrack Master at Yarmouth in 1803 and lived in the Naval Hospital. In 1807 he saw the gunship Snipe sink near the harbour mouth with the loss of 67 lives and this inspired him to invent a system of using a mortar to throw a rope out to ship to enable the crew to be hauled to safety. 

Photographs

 Date taken:  19/10/2007
Date logged: 

Photographed by:
Sarah Cocke

On Site Inspection

 Date:  19/10/2007

Inspected by:
Richard Cocke

Sources and References

 www.yarmouth.things.cc/DB/view accessed 19/10/2007; Mortlock, D.,P., and Roberts, C.,V., The Guide to Norfolk Churches,Cambridge, 2007, 142 

Database

 Date entered:  10/12/2007

Data inputter:
Richard Cocke