Pages from Chilcott's The handbook to St Mary Redcliff Church

ST. MARY REDCLIFFE CHURCH.
for the grant of the site. The design was furnished by
Mr. S. C. Fripp, Architect, and the work executed by
Messrs. Higgs and Godwin.
The [intended] Inscriptions on the Monument, 0n thefirst side,—
Reader! judge not.
TO THE MEMORY
or
THOMAS CHATTERTON.
If thou art a Christian, believe that he shall be judged by a
superior Power—to that Power alone is he now answerable.
On the sidefacing Redclifl'e Street.
Know all; know infidels, unapt to know,
’Tis immortality your nature solves;
’Tis immortality deeiphers man
And opens all the mysteries of his make.
Without it half his instincts are a riddle:
Without it all his virtues are a dream :
His very crimes attest his dignity;
His sateless appetite of gold and fame
Declares him born for blessings infinite.—DR. YOUNG.
0n the side towards the Porch Steps.
A poor and friendless boy was he, to whom
Is raised this monument, without a tomb.
There seek his dust, there o’er his genius sigh,
Where famished outcasts unrecorded lie:
Here let his name, for here his genius rose
To might of ancient days, in peace repose!
Here, wondrous boy! to more than want consign’d.
To cold neglect, worse famine of the mind:
All uncongenial the bright world within
To that without of darkness and of sin,
He lived a mystery—died.
Here, reader, pause:
Let God be judge, and mercy plead the cause.
0n the fourth side.
A posthumous child.
Born in this parish, 20th November, 1752.
Died in London, 24th August, 1770. iEt. 18.
On the fifth side.
Admitted into Colston’s School, 3rd August, 1760.
nunzlmus hristoltmsis, 1768.
rnmliz mtctrxxrxxxtx 1769.
On the Base, under the first Inscription.
Erected by subscription, A. n. 1840.