Wall monument

The National Monuments Service's description

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny, originally on the S chancel wall, near the crossing. A white marble wall monument (H 3.41m; Wth 1.92m) for Col. Robert Maude (d. 1684) and Frances Wandesford, Anthony Maude, Ann Maude (d. 1703) (Potterton 1975, 83). It is built in the Baroque-style, representing a richly ornamented stylised neo-Classical portico over an elaborate apron. At the bottom left is inscribed ‘Stanton of Harthnale London’, the stonemason. The inscription reads:
This monument erected/
To memory/
Of the several following persons/
(of the family of Maude)/
who are intered near this place/
Viz/
Coll Robert Maude/
formerly of Rippon, Yorkshire,/
late of Dundrum, in the County of Tipperary/
who died Ano Dm 1684/
Frances his wife/
(of the name and House of Wandesford)/
Anthony their only son/
and Anne youngest daughter./
This Lady/
who lived unmarried/
and dy’d in the 58th year of Her Age/
Ano Dm 1703/
By her last Will did appoint her Executors/
To distinguish and adorn/
the Burying place of her family.

The monument was moved to the S wall of the former 'Monuments Room' in the N transept. It was rebuilt in its present location on the S side of the S transept in 2015.

Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil

Date of upload: 10 January 2023

References

Potterton, H. 1975 Irish church monuments 1570-1880. Belfast. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society.