What is recorded here

Canon Dwyer read Hic Jacet Magister Cornelius on a tombstone in the middle of the church, yet the grave disappeared from sight by 2019. The slab may have been moved, buried or forgotten after Westropp described its black letters in 1897. Canon Island keeps that much of Cornelius: a name, a title and the chance that the floor still covers him.

Westropp (1897, 289) refers to a tombstone ‘in the middle of the church’ with an epitaph, in raised 'black letters' along its edge and notes that Canon Dwyer read part of it as ‘Hic Jacet Magister Cornelius’. This monument was not immediately apparent on a brief visit in June 2019. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 7 August 2019

Medieval Christian tomb slab, 13th–15th century. The slab is significant as a rare surviving example of early Christian funerary inscription in the region, indicating the presence of a local ecclesiastical community and written record-keeping.

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