Florence NIGHTINGALE
Grave Of Florence NIGHTINGALE
Obscure Resting Place. Florence Nightingale will buried to-morrow, with the simplicity on which she herself insisted, in the tiny graveyard East Wellow Church. Hampshire, four miles from the nearest town and railway station. The bearers will soldiers, possibly veterans from Chelsea. This is the only concession the demand for some public tribute to her memory. But her wish laid privacy and without ostentation beside her father and mother, close her first home at Embley Hall, could not ignored. The national tribnte must paid the memorial service St. Paul’s. .The body Florence Nightingale will reach the church at a quarter to three to-morrow, and the funeral will at three. This change from the fifet plan of bringing the coffin to the chnrch to-day, to-rest there till it should taken to the grave. It would hard to find a setting more in harmony with the retiring lady’s character. Publicity there can little of in the remote spot where the body will be laid. For church but miniature place, capable of bolding few but the relatives, the choir, and some local friends; and the graveyard is hardly more spacious. Though quite close to a lane which leads to it from Romsey. secluded tbe church that it could easily overlooked. once the property King Alfred, is aside from nearly all traffic, rarely visited tourists, for the road from leads nowhere in particular. Nearer East Church the “way is through arcade formed fine oaks growing bright sandy banks honeycombed by rabbits. The church is a tiny place of century origin, with flint walls, a roof red tiles. Ml lichens and moss, and a square wooden tower. Its oaken porch, bleached and worn with five centuries. a treasure. The huge pillars within are oak-wood was cheaper than stone, with the New Forest only two miles away—and late years the accumulated strata whitewash the walk have been dome extent scaled off. discovering some ancient frescoes beneath. One. portraying the martyrdom St. Thomas of Canterbury, is believed date from about 1250. Sqnaree are painted on tbs walls, and in them are the red roe# England and the green lilies France. Standing near the porch, the churchyard, it the marine memorial which Florence Nightingale set for her parents, the inscriptions ehow:— Devoted to the memory of our dear mother. France* Nightingale, wife of William Edward Nightingale, died lat Febmary, 1880.— F. Parthe Verney and Florence Nightingale. On another face of the monument is the name of Mr. Nightingale, who died Sth January, 1874. and waa buried in the vault beneath with his wife.
Bolton Evening News – Friday 19 August 1910
