Location: Menheniot Parish Church
Type: Tomb
Material: Brick
Date of death: 19 January 1834Place of death: Menheniot, Cornwall (his house still stands within the parish at Roseland).
Description: A brick tomb, topped by a black slate slab on which lies a flat limestone slab with an inscription.
Dimensions: 158 cm × 80 cm × 58 cm high.
Transcription
sacred to the memory of
M A LAPENOTIERE
wife of
captain john richards lapenotiere
who departed this life
the 1[?] of july 1833
aged 55
ALSO
of john richards lapenotiere
her husband
the 19th january 1834
aged 63 years
ALSO OF THOMAS
youngest son of the above
who died november 12th
1876 aged 64
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