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Memorial monument of Princess Caroline Murat |
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County | Suffolk | District Council | Waveney District Council | |||||||||||||||||||||
Civil Parish or equivalent | Ringsfield | Town/Village* | Ringsfield | |||||||||||||||||||||
Road | Redisham Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Precise Location | North side of nave of All Saints | |||||||||||||||||||||||
OS Grid Ref | TM405883 | Postcode | NR34 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Setting | Churchyard | Access | Public | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Jacqueline Eugenie and Frances Harriet Doucha Garden | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Design & Constrn period |
1902 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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All Saints Ringsfield Parochial Church Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Inscriptions | Inscribed: In loving memory of/ Her Highness the Princess Caroline Letitia Murat/ and of her husband/ John Lewis Garden of Redisham Hall/ This monument is placed by their daughters/ Jacqueline Eugenie and Frances Harriet Doucha/ The Princess was the elder daughter of H.R.H. Murat/ Grand-daughter of Joachim, King of Naples/ And great niece of the Emperor Napoleon Ist/ Married first Charles Baron of Chassiron/ And second John Lewis Garden. There are further smaller inscriptions to members of the Garden family | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description (physical) |
The group is set on a striking red granite base as a beautifully realised (female) angel, with elegantly curved wings, has just alighted on the rock in front of a large cross. Her drapery suggests movement as she holds the trumpet of the last judgement in her left hand while pointing to the heavens to the two smaller kneeling angels. The gender of the angels, as well as the pious clasped hands of the two younger kneeling angels reflect the commission from Princess Murat’s two daughters. Although said to have been supplied by Sanders of London, Pevsner rightly noted that it was Père Lachaise in style and Philip Ward-Jackson suggested that the angel of the last judgement is Italian. A youthful, brooding, angel of the last judgment had been introduced into funerary sculpture by the sculptor Giulio Monteverde in his Francesco Oneto monument in Genoa of 1882. The statue was widely copied, but here the unknown sculptor while retaining the drapery and silhouette, set the figure striding forward with renewed energy, and with a gesture and features which reflect reflect the slightly later angel designed by Gino Niccoli (1873-1928) for the 1909 Augusto Forti Monument in the Cimitero della Certosa, Ferrara (Berresford, S., Italian Memorial Sculpture 1820-1940. A Legacy of Love, London, 2004, pp. 58, 208-209, pls 71 and 437). | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description (iconographical) |
Princess Caroline Murat died on the 23rd July 1902 at Redisham Hall, and following the funeral at Ringsfield on the 28 July, her remains were placed in the family vault. John Lewis Garden had died on 2nd January 1892, and is commemorated in the window on the north aisle by Bell and Beckham, dedicated to St John the Baptist and Elijah. The princess is commemorated in the adjoining window, also by Bell and Beckham, showing the Virgin (in a pose strongly inspired by Dürer) flanked by Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany. Princess Caroline Murat was born on 31 December 1832 at Bordentown, New Jersey, U.S.A. She married Charles Martin de Chassiron on 6 January 1850 at Paris, France and John-Lewis Garden in 1872 at London, England. John Lewis Garden’s grandfather had acquired the site of Redisham Hall, which he rebuilt in 1823. It was considerably enlarged and refaced by John Lewis Garden c.1880. The house was sold on the princess’s death and was further added to by Thomas De la Garde Grissell in 1904. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date taken:
27/9/2009
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On Site Inspection |
Date: 27/9/2009 |
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Sources and References |
Brought to our attention by Simon Knott; BOE III, 405; www.foxearth.org.uk/BecclesAreaNewspapers/ Compendiums LOCAL CHRONOLOGY FOR 1902; www.thepeerage.com/Princess Caroline Murat; www.british-history.ac.uk/report Little Redisham, Alfred Suckling,The History and Antiquities of Suffolk, 1846, 61-67 all accessed 26/09/2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date entered: 28/9/2009 |
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