Memorial stone
attributed to Richard George Davies
Category
Stone
Date
c. 1844
Materials
Place of origin
Newcastle upon Tyne
Collection
Farne Islands, Northumberland
NT 1650343
Summary
Memorial to Grace Darling in sandstone with inscription by William Wordsworth
Provenance
In their 'Artists of Northumbria' from 1973 (pp100-101) Hall & Marshall state that this memorial was by Richard George Davies (c.1790 - after 1857) of Newcastle. The chapel restoration began in about 1840, and this memorial was commissioned by 21 September 1844, as it featured in issue number 125 of the Illustrated London News – . The commission went to a sculptor called Mr Davies of Newcastle (possibly R.G. Davies), who produced an "interesting but unostentatious memorial". An engraving in the journal said "It will be as the engraving shows, a cippus, of stone, six feet in height; with the cross of St Cuthbert". The article then reproduces the inscription of the peom by Wordsworth to be carved into the stone. Grace died on 20 October 1842. The memorial in Bamburgh Churchyard was not installed until 1848.
Makers and roles
attributed to Richard George Davies, sculptor