Memorial Cartouche to Laurence Womack (or Womock)
Creator(s): Attributed to Grinling Gibbons
Date: c.1685
Materials: Marble
Location: St Margaret's Church, St Margaret St, London SW1P 3JX
Credit Line (copyright notice for material) : By courtesy of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
Online Catalogue Entry : https://www.westminster-abbey.org/pt/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/laurence-womack-womock
NOTES ON THE ARTWORK
In St Margaret’s church Westminster is a cartouche, attributed to sculptor Grinling Gibbons, to Laurence Womack (or Womock) bishop of St David’s in Wales who was buried in the church with his daughter Anne. The memorial is on a pillar in the south west section of the church. The Latin inscription can be translated:
Near this place is buried that which was mortal of the Reverend Father in Christ, Laurence Womack, Bishop of St Davids; who exchanged his labours, outstandlngly performed and bestowed upon the Church of England over many years, for a crown of immortality on 12th March 1685 in his 73rd year. Also of his daughter Anne, a maid of 19 years who, on the 3rd Oct. preceding, was summoned hence to the company of virgin souls (a state) more excellent than any marriage could be
Memorial Cartouche in marble to Bishop of St David's in Wales, Laurence Womack (or Womock)
