In the Norman arch is placed a memorial stone containing a quaint inscription.
“Here, in a steedfast hope of joyfvll resvrrection, resteth ye bodye of Tho: Evans, gentleman, borne at Henlam, in ye Covnof Denbigh, who attended on ye great scale of England as ordinaire messenger about XXX. Yeares, and about L.yeares one of ye ordiniyre messengers of ye receipt. He gave by his last will fyftye povnes for a stock to continnve for ever that ye profit thereof yearllie ravsed might be imployed towards ye re-payre of this church, where his body is interred.
| Besides divers other good soms of mony for ye re-leife of ye poore & repairs of ye churches in svch places as he has lived and having acomplished ye age LXXV111 years, he deceased at Newnham Regis, ye X11.day of Avgvst, A.D. XDCX11.”
The Rugby Gazette of 8 February 1873 notes :
“Several similar stones were also found, and have been placed beneath the chancel floor, and it is intended to have the inscriptions on them engraved on brass plates and fixed onto the chancel walls”.
These plaques are there for you to see today.
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