Listed Buildings of Marston: Chest tomb in churchyard
Photographed on 18 February 2006
Chest tomb (Grade II listed, ref. 1485/135) about ten metres south-west of the Church of St Nicholas, Old Marston.
This tomb (shown above and below from two different angles) dates from the first half of the seventeenth century, and is made of limestone.
Photographed on 18 February 2006
There is an inscription on one end (below), showing that a man called Oliver Eborn is buried here. The surviving parish registers only go back to 1653, too late for his burial to be recorded.
H E R E L I E T H
T H E B O D Y O F
O L I V E R ∩ E B-
O R N ∩ [?O B:] ∩ A N o
[rest buried beneath the ground]
His descendants (who tend to spell their name as “Hebborn”) now provide Oxfordshire with funfairs
Photographed on 25 February 2006
