3-074-638 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Monument to the late Dean of Windsor in Strathfieldsaye Church, 1883. 'The late Hon. and Very Rev. Gerald Wellesley, Dean of Windsor (son of the first Lord Cowley), was Lord High Almoner, and thirty-three years Domestic Chaplain to Queen Victoria; he was also Rector of Strathfieldsaye, Hants, being nephew to the great Duke of Wellington. The present Duke, his cousin, has had a beautiful monument erected in Strathfieldsaye Church, the work of Mr. George G. Adams, whose bronze statue of Wellington, at Norwich, and those of Sir Charles Napier, in Trafalgar-square and in St. Paul's Cathedral, of Sir William Napier, and of Lord Seaton, with many busts, including that of the great Duke, which was reproduced for the Queen by special command, have earned him a high reputation as a sculptor. We give an illustration of the mural marble monument to the late Dean Wellesley, which is about 7 ft. high by 4 ft. wide, and is placed in the chancel near the pulpit from which he formerly preached. The centre part contains a life-sized portrait, in very bold relief; above this is an arrangement of wheat and grapes, emblematical of the Holy Sacrament; the arms of the family appear below'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.