Photographs of Bramfield, Suffolk - St Andrew's Church (Applewhait Memorial)
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St Andrew's Church (Applewhait Memorial), Bramfield

Bramfield, St Andrew's Church (Applewhait Memorial)


The church was being prepared for an evening concert on the day of our visit, although we were welcomed to look around.

The grand piano in the chancel made appreciation of the three monuments difficult especially the inscription to Bridgett Applewhait who on the eve of her second marriage was killed “by an apoplectick dart” which “touch'd the most vital part of her brain”. She struggled for 60 hours “in terrible convulsions plaintive groans or stupefying sleep without recovery of her speech or senses”. The full Inscription reads:

Between the Remains of her Brother Edward
And of her Husband Arthur
Here lies the Body of Bridgett APPLEWHAIT
Once Bridgett NELSON.
After the Fatigues of a Married Life,
Born by her with Incredible Patience,
For four Years and three Quarters, bating three Weeks;
And after the Enjoiment of the Glorious Freedom
Of an Early and Unblemisht Widowhood,
For four Years and Upwards,
She Resolved to run the Risk of a Second Marriage bed
But Death Forbad the Banns-.
And having with an Apoplectick Dart,
(The Same Instrument, whith which he had Formerly
Dispatch't her Mother;)
Touch't the most Vital part of her Brain;
She must have fallen Directly to the Ground,
(as one Thunder-strook,)
If she had not been Catch't and Supported
by her Intended Husband.
Of which Invisible Bruise
After a Struggle for above Sixty Hours,
With that Grand Enemy to Life,
But the certain and Mercifull Friend to Helpless Old Age,)
In Terrible Convulsions, Plaintive Groans, or Stupefying Sleep
without Recovery of her Speech, or Senses,
She Dyed, on the 12th: day of Sept: in ye Year (of our Lord 1737
and
(of her own Age 44.

(Commentary provided by Phil Draper)
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