Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map]. Monument to St Bertrand.

Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map]. Monument to George Newell.

Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map]. Font with Images representing Life of St Berrand.

Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map]. Exterior.

After 1653. Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map]. Monument to Elizabeth Meverell Countess Ardglass. Elizabethan Period.

After 1653. Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map]. Monument to Robert Meverell and Elizabeth Fleming. Elizabethan Period.

Robert Meverell: On 05 Feb 1628 he died. Before 05 Aug 1628 he and Elizabeth Fleming were married.

Elizabeth Fleming: she was born to Thomas Fleming. On 05 Aug 1628 she died.

After 29 Jul 1816. Church of the Holy Cross, Ilam [Map]. Monument to David Pike Watts (deceased). Sculpted by Francis Leggatt Chantrey (age 35).

David Pike Watts: On 29 Jan 1754 he was born. In 1809 David Pike Watts purchased Ilam Hall, Staffordshire from the Port family. On 29 Jul 1816 he died. His daughter Mary Watts and her husband Jesse Watts-Russell inherited Ilam Hall, Staffordshire.

Memorials of Francis Chantrey RA in Hallamshire and Elsewhere Part V London Life and Works. To this period belongs the execution of the celebrated monument-one of the largest of its class in England - of David Pike Watts, Esq., now in a chapel erected for its reception in the church [Map] adjoining Ilam Hall, near Dovedale. In this fine work of art, the venerable man is represented "on his bed of death, from which he has raised himself by a final effort of expiring nature, to perform the last solemn act of a long and virtuous life: his only daughter- [ Mrs. Watts Russell (age 27) ] -and her children, all that were dearest to him in life, surround his couch, and bend at his side, as they receive from his lips the benedictions of a dying parent, when the last half-uttered farewell falters upon them."

How did that sculptured group command Our wonder, which hath ravish'd thousand eyes: The kneeling mother, and the soft surprise Of the three little ones that near her stand: ' Than this - thy genius, Chantrey (age 37)! scarce could rise Higher, with trophies fresh from Nature won; Art, how transcendent, when such power is given, To fix expression in the Parian stone, Which turns rapt thought towards holiness and heaven! "