Sir William Belasyse

St Michael's church, Coxwold, North Yorkshire.

This church is adjacent to the Fauconberg Arms where I was having Sunday lunch with my Uncle Victor.
The monument to the north east corner of the chancel, to the left of the altar, is that of Sir William Belasyse and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Nicholas Fairfax of Gilling. The recumbent effigies of William and Margaret with their hands in prayer lie on their tomb with smaller effigies of their children - four sons and a daughter - placed around it.
The tomb was carved from Magnesian Limestone by Thomas Browne, a Yorkshire sculptor, in 1603.