The memorial cross to Capt. Thomas Trollope in the churchyard at Barholm and Stowe (Photo: jmc4 Church Explorer)
Parish/DistrictBarholm and Stowe/South Kesteven
Locationbetween the gate and the south porch in St Martin’s churchyard
CategoryChurchyard cross (restored as a memorial)
National Grid RefTF 09009 10957
DesignationListed II
Stone typeLimestone
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There is a  memorial cross in St Martin’s churchyard at Barholm and Stowe erected in 1919, to the memory of Captain Thomas Carew Trollope Bart. of the 1/1 Lincolnshire Yeomanry who died in 1915. It is listed as a war memorial although it is not a village memorial in the usual sense as it only commemorates one person. It is in the form of a standing cross with a crucifix head and re-uses a medieval socket stone which was presumably already located in the churchyard, although there are no records of it prior to this re-use.

This cross has not yet been surveyed by us; the listing description is as follows: War memorial. C14 and c.1919. Ashlar. 2 octagonal steps, to a C14 square base rising via stop chamfers to an octagon in which is set the tapering octagonal C20 shaft bearing on the west side a carving of a Bishop in an elaborate cusped canopy, supported by a stag head and with soldiers to the side panels. The Crucifixus has an ogee crocketed gablette.

There is no inscription on the memorial, but a plaque inside the church refers to the churchyard cross: ‘To the beloved memory of Thomas Carew TROLLOPE, Bart. 3rd Baron Kesteven – Captain of Canwick Crowcombe & Carew. Born 1st May 1891 And died 5th November 1915. In the French military hospital, Oran Algiers, from wounds received during the shelling of the transport Mercian by a German submarine, in the Mediterranean on 3rd November. The cross in the churchyard is erected by his mother and sister, and this memorial by his Aunt Geraldine Elenor MOORE. For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory. “Audio Sed Taceo”  

The elaborate cross shaft of the Trollope memorial has a Bishop incorporated in the carving (Photo: jmc4 Church Explorer)

The Trollope memorial at Barholm and Stowe – The socket stone is thought to be medieval but all the rest is modern
Barholm and Stowe

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