ABSTRACT
The tomb of Edward Noel, Viscount Campden and his wife Juliana Hicks at Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire is an optimistic essay by the London mason Joshua Marshall on the fate of the body after death.1 The monument shows the dead man and his wife emerging from a cabinet with open doors. They are depicted standing up in their shrouds on the day of resurrection, on the verge of walking out of the tomb to be triumphantly summoned into heaven. The couple look towards each other and clasp hands, creating an image of a marital love that will survive even death to achieve a physical reunion at the end of time itself. The monument was commissioned by Juliana in 1664 and local legend in Chipping Campden claims that the stone doors to the cabinet were closed during her lifetime and opened only on her death in 1680 at the age of 95, never to be closed again.2
