The Coffin of Hentry Trigg
37 High Street, Stevenage SG1 3AR
The Coffin of Henry Trigg
High up in the roof of this building
rests a coffin which at one time
contained the body of
HENRY TRIGG
His will (1724) specified that his body
was to be 'decently laid there,
upon a floor in the roof'.
It is said that Henry Trigg was so afraid of grave robbers and body snatchers that he made it a condition of his will that his coffin be stored in the rafters of his heir's barn. The barn eventually became the Old Castle Inn, then for many years a branch of NatWest bank, and now (March 2019) a dental practice, but the coffin remains in the building.
Submitted by the Revd Ruth Carroll, vicar of Holy Trinity Stevenage
The Coffin of Henry Trigg
High up in the roof of this building
rests a coffin which at one time
contained the body of
HENRY TRIGG
His will (1724) specified that his body
was to be 'decently laid there,
upon a floor in the roof'.
It is said that Henry Trigg was so afraid of grave robbers and body snatchers that he made it a condition of his will that his coffin be stored in the rafters of his heir's barn. The barn eventually became the Old Castle Inn, then for many years a branch of NatWest bank, and now (March 2019) a dental practice, but the coffin remains in the building.
Submitted by the Revd Ruth Carroll, vicar of Holy Trinity Stevenage
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