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English: St Andrew's Church, Colton, Norfolk - Wall monument of "Mrs Brown" (Norfolk 2: North-west and south, Part 2, By Nikolaus Pevsner, Bill Wilson) (Elizabeth Browne) (1667-1741) date of death is given on the grave monument as 06/11/1741. Elizabeth Browne age is given as 74[1]. Apparently (from the heraldry) a daughter of a Pooley. Arms Argent, two bars between three spearheads sable (Brown - see clearer image[2]) (not listed in Burke) ) impaling Pooly / Pooley / Poley: Or, a lion rampant sable (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.811 "Poley of Boxted Hall, Suffolk, removed from Poley, Hertfordshire"; p.814 "Pooley of Cheshire and Suffolk"). See other Pooley monuments in same church, including File:St Andrew's Church, Colton, Norfolk - Ledger slab - geograph.org.uk - 807674.jpg.

Inscribed: M.S. Mrs Elizabeth Browne, second wife of John Browne of Scarning, Esq., late relict of Philip Pooly of Colton, Gent., by whom she lies interr'd. A lady of exemplary virtue, piety and charity. Obiit Nov. VI (?) MDCCXLI anno aet(atis) LXXIV

Monuments in Scarning Church, text from Francis Blomefield, 'Launditch Hundred: Scarning', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 10 (London, 1809), pp. 38-47 [3]:

"By the communion table in the chancel lie several grave stones; on one this shield; gules, a fess voided between three spear heads argent, Browne, impaling, ermine, three chevronels sable, Repps. Hoc marmor tibi monstrat Riches Browne, Gen. cujus in vita nihil arguere volvas, nihil in moribus damnare pietate, justitia, temperantia nulli secundus; charitate benevolentia adeo insignis, ut se conscio neminem egere permitteret: si vitam contempleris, si mortem, dubites an potuerit vivere sanctior, an obire securior. Aug. 18, 1704, Ætat. 62, animam efflavit. Sic te vivere sic te decet mori.. A stone near this, For Mary his wife, daughter of John Reppes of Mattishall, Esq. who died April 16, 1708, aged 63. One In memory of Barbara, wife of John Brown, Gent. daughter of L'Estrange Mordant of Congham, Esq. who died May 19, 1714, aged 36:—with the arms of Browne impaling Mordaunt".

Text from [4] , quoting "H. D’Aveney, Notes and Queries July-December 1864, accessed 26 March 2015; Matthew Craske, The Silent Rhetoric of the Body. A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770, 2007, 188-181":

• Monument to Elizabeth Browne †1741. Marble. Robert Page, north east wall of nave, besides the monument to Philip Pooley (d.1715). Commissioned by her husband, another Philip Pooley. A single veined Corinthian column supports a plinth with coat of arms in a cartouche. The column is set against a dark slab, tapering slightly as it rises to support a pointed pediment. There are small consoles at the top and decoration running down the sides. Urns, echoing those on Philip Pooley’s monument (again one missing), flank the monument with the inscription on a white marble slab beneath, framed by acanthus. Elizabeth, who died aged seventy four, was the second wife of John Browne of Scarning and widow (relict) of Philip Pooley Gentleman of Colton, responsible for her burial and, presumably, the monument besides his father’s. It is odd that she kept the name of her first husband, since she must have married Philip Pooley II by 1716, when she was mentioned as Elizabeth, daughter-in-law of Maria Pooley of Colton, in Maria’s will of that year. The family connection is acknowledged in the site and the materials of monument, echoing the earlier monument. The symbolism, however, was inspired by the description of Absolom’s column in 2 Samuel 18:18 : ‘Absolom in his lifetime had taken and reared up a pillar.. for he said I have no son to keep my name in remembrance and he called the pillar after his own name.’ A single column was popular in Norfolk. Its use for a family without heirs is documented for the Monument to Augustine Curtis I †1731 and II †1732 by James Barrett in St Peter Mancroft, Norwich. Barrett had earlier designed a comparable monument to George Warren †1728 in All Saints, Horstead. There is another contemporary version to Mrs Hodgson †1743 at St Nicholas, Dersingham by Francis Stafford.