Brooke Crutchley Memorial, St Mary's Church, Stafford

Description:Ornate marble wall memorial to Brooke Crutchley, located on the south side of St Mary's, Stafford.

The inscription reads:
‘Sacred to the Memory of Brooke Crutchley, late of Stafford, Who on March the 19th, 1777, departed this Life with exemplary Fortitude and true Christian resignation, Aged 60.
Vain is the sculptur’d Monumental stone / The tears of Friendship, and the artless Moan: / But when Disease obstructs the lab’ring Breath / When the Heart sickens and each Pulse is Death / E’en then Religion shall sustain the Just / Grace their Moments, nor desert their Dust.
Near this Place are also deposited the Remains of Catharine his first Wife the Youngest Daughter of William Robins Esquire & Catharine his Wife late of this Borough. She died April the 24th 1763 Aged 41.’