This memorial had to be taken down in the rebuild.

Rawlins MSS gives the following information about this memorial (the sections in closed brackets have been added for clarification :

"...near to the [East end of the South aisle] window [the monument] is of white marble, consisting of a sarcophagus; at whose right hand angle stands a weeping female figure supporting her head on her [right] arm which rests upon it. Above on a Lozenge, are the arms of the barony of Middleton... The Coronet is on the apex of the Lozenge, and the supporters, are, On the Dexter side a pilgrim, or grey-friar, in his habit, Proper, with his beads, cross, & c. On the sinister, a savage with a club in his exterior hand, wreathed about the temples and middle with ivy, all Proper; each supporter holding a banner, Gules, fringed, Or; assigned with an owl, argent, crowned ducally, collared, and chained, Or : The owl being the crest of Willoughby of Middleton and Woolaton.- On another shield, by the side of this, as being impaled, is the bearer of Mundy... The inscription, on the base, in larger capitals, is written

In memory of Georgina Baroness Dowager Middleton, Daughter of James Chadwick, of West-Leake, Esqr. Born the XVIIIth of April MDCCXLVI. Married the VIIth of April MDCCLXX to Thomas, Baron Middleton, of Wollaton, in the county of Nottingham, who died the XIXth of January MDCCLXXXI, without Issue. On the XIVth of January MDCCLXXXVIII, she was again married To Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley Esqr. And died on the XXIXth of June MDCCLXXXIX, leaving Issue one Daughter Georgina Elizabeth Mundy."

 
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