Tombstone of Julian Russell Sturgis (1848-1904), Compton Cemetery, Compton, by Compton Pottery. 1898. Nairn and Pevsner mention “Several good Art Nouveau TOMBSTONES in the burial ground, the best to Julian Sturgis 1904, the owner of Voysey’s Greyfriars.” [Click on this image to enlarge it.]
The poem by Sturgis reads as follows:
‘No friendship dieth
With death of any day,
No true friendship lieth
Cold with lifeless day.
Though our boyhood's playtime
Be gone with summer's breath,
No friendship fades with May-time,
No friendship dies with death.’ — J.R.S.
Related Material
- Another Art Nouveau tombstone
- Cloisters housing the Watts Memorial
- Mary Watts Memorial plaque
- Compton Cemetery Chapel, Compton, designed by Mary Seton Fraser Tytler Watts, 1898
- Compton Pottery, Cemetery Well
Photographs and caption by Robert Freidus. formatting by George P. Landow. You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
Bibliography
Nairn, Ian, and Nikolaus Pevsne. Surrey. 2nd edition. London: Penguin Books, 1982.
Last modified 26 August 2011