Viscount Chewton
The Chewton Memorial. The stained-glass window in St Clements Church as a memorial to Viscount Chewton was finished in the last week of April. Over the subject of the window is the word "Sobraon" and beneath the subject, the word "Alma". Under that are the Chewton arms and the motto "Passes Avant". Above the window is a beautiful marble tablet with the following inscription:-
Cœlum non animum.
Sacred to the memory of William Frederick, Viscount Chewton. Late captain in H. M. Regiment of Scots Fusilier Guards, eldest son of William, 8th Earl of Waldegrave, C.B., and Elizabeth, his first wife. He was born on the 28th of June, 1816; served his Queen and country with honour, seventeen years in Canada, South America, Australia and the East and West Indies; bore, in 1846, a distinguished part at the battle of Sobraon, and on the 20th of September, 1854, fell gloriously on the heights of Alma, covered with wounds, in advance of his company, foremost in the assault.
He died in the hospital of Scutari, on the 8th of October, 1854, after 18 days of patient suffering, during which his sould found rest in Jesus"
"This monument and the window beneath were erected by a public subscription raised at Hastings to record the sense which many friends entertained of his worth - their admiration of his gallant and heroic conduct and their sympathy with the surviving family.
The tablet has a bas-relief portrait of Viscount Chewton, beautifully executed.
