Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Nicholas

Last Name:

Crispe

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

1666 or later. 1883 transferred into the current church.

Inscription:

Internal bust & urn
According to https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/210996627/nicholas-crispe:

Within this urne is entomb'd the heart of Sir Nicholas Crispe, Knight and Baronet, a loyal sharer in the sufferings of his late and present majesty. He first settled the trade of gold from Guigny, and there built the castell of Cormantine. Died the 26th of February 1665, aged 67.


External chest tomb
HERE LYETH YE BODY OF SR
NICHOLAS CRISP KTT & BARRONETT
ONE OF YE FARMERS OF HIS
MAYESTIES CVSTOMES WHO
DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 2 OF
FEBRVARY 1665
AGED 67 YEARS

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence
Internal monument good.

External monument average, some lettering damaged by weathering.

Memorial Notes:

According to https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/210996627/nicholas-crispe:

'Against the north wall of the chancel stands a fine bronze bust of Charles I, placed in the chapel to his memory by Sir Nicholas Crispe... Underneath is a pedestal of black marble, on which stands an urn inclosing the heart of Sir Nicholas Crispe.'
(Lysons 1795)

His body was buried in the church of St Mildred, Bread Street in east London, but:
'...he directed that his embalmed heart should be placed in an urn beneath a bronze bust of Charles I which in his lifetime he had placed in the Church where he had worshipped God … For a century and a half the heart was taken out on the anniversary of its burial and refreshed with wine. It then became 'dust to dust', but the memory of old Sir Nicholas, the marble monument and the King's bust will long survive it.'
(Draper 1913)

In 1883 Crispe's memorial was transferred to the newer church of St Paul's, built on the same site. On 18 June 1898, his remains and his heart were reunited in a chest tomb which stands in the churchyard of St Paul's by the north-east door of the church.

According to https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187763484/nicholas-crispe:

Heart buried in urn on pedestal of black marble.


See https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/effigy-of-charles-i-above-the-memorial-to-sir-nicholas-crispe-from-fulham-church-attributed-to-daniel-lysons-1762%E2%80%931834-british/LwGJudP9Y9zWsg?hl=en
for pen and ink on paper drawing of "Effigy of Charles I above the Memorial to Sir Nicholas Crispe from Fulham Church", attributed to Daniel Lysons, c.1796-1811, Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA

See https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp56723/sir-nicholas-crisp-bt
for portraits of Crispe

See https://christopherbellew.com/crisp-road/
for Crisp Road, London W6