In Chelsea old parish church there may be seen an altar-tomb of such marked beauty that Dean Stanley once declared that Westminster Abbey contained only three finer. It is dedicated to the memory of Geoffrey, Lord Dacre and his wife.
On the west side is the following inscription—
"Quos ardens amor juvenilibus annis
Abstulit atra dies—mors inopina rapit.
Ille prior fatis Dacrorum nobile germen
Occidit, in morbum ast incidit ilia prius
Qu? languescendo miser? pr?t?dia vit?
Sensit, tam dulci conjuge cassa suo,
Ut teneri cordis concordia junxerat ambos
Sic idem amborum contegit ossa locus.
Quos jungit tumulus conjungant c?lica tecta
Ut tensant coelum qui tenuere fidem.
Nobilis iste Vir Nobilis is............