Looking for Dr Ingen Housz : the evidence for the site and nature of the burial, in Calne, of the famous Dutch physician and scientist of the eighteenth century

Author

Beale, Norman; Beale, Elaine

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine. 2000, Vol. 93, 120-130, 4 ill., 1 plan

ISSN

0262-6608

Abstract (en)

Evidence is presented that Jan Ingenhousz's remains were deposited, within a lead coffin, in a vault under the church of Calne S. Mary. The burial vault must have been already in existence and was owned by the Marquis of Lansdowne. Suggests that the relevant vault was that which "belonged" to Castle House, Calne. Discusses vault burial within English churches, 1650-1850. The vaults, crypts, and graves under the chancel of the church appear to have been filled in during the mid-Victorian re-ordering of the building. Complete re-flooring of the chancel destroyed all the ledger stones and vault entrance traps. Suggests, however, that the coffins beneath the chancel were left in situ during such backfilling and that the mortal remains of Dr. Ingenhousz still lie under the chancel of S. Mary's.

Subject (en)

• Ingenhousz, Jan, 1730-1799
• Sepulchral monuments
• Burial
• Vaults (tombs)
• Great Britain
• 1600-1900
• S. Mary||Calne (GBR)
• Churches
• Alteration
• Architecture

Subject (fr)

• Ingenhousz, Jan, 1730-1799
• Monument funéraire
• Inhumation
• Caveau funéraire
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1600-1900
• S. Mary||Calne (GBR)
• Eglise [édifice]
• Altération
• Architecture

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20010101-00147066

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