It was decided that the funeral should take place at Birchington; and there, in the quiet little graveyard on the cliffs, Rossetti was laid to rest. Mr. William Sharp and Philip Bourke Marston (who died five years later) were among the mourners, besides those already gathered in the house of grief. The quiet hamlet of Birchington-on-Sea is now a well-loved place of pilgrimage. The quaint, un-English-looking house in which the poet- painter died is honoured as “Rossetti Bungalow.” In the old, shingle- towered, ivy-grown church, a stained-glass memorial window, his mother’s gift, shows, in the one light, his own design, “The Passover in the Holy Family,” and, in the other, Christ giving sight to a blind minstrel,—the work of his old friend, Mr. Shields. In the churchyard, opposite the south-west porch, the old verger shows, with touching pride and enthusiasm, a beautiful Runic cross, on the face of which is this inscription: HERE SLEEPS GABRIEL CHARLES DANTE ROSSETTI, HONOURED UNDER THE NAME OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, AMONG PAINTERS AS A PAINTER, AND AMONG POETS AS A POET. BORN IN LONDON, OF PARENTAGE MAINLY ITALIAN, 12 MAY, 1828. DIED AT BIRCHINGTON, 9 APRIL, 1882. And at the back the following: THIS CRUCIFORM MONUMENT, _BESPOKEN BY DANTE ROSSETTI’S MOTHER_, WAS DESIGNED BY HIS LIFELONG FRIEND, FORD MADOX BROWN, EXECUTED BY J. & H. PATTESON, _And erected by his brother William and sister Christina Rossetti_. Another interesting memorial has since been established in the form of a drinking fountain, designed by Mr. Seddon, with a bronze bust modelled by Mr. Madox Brown, erected by subscription in 1887 in front of the old house, 16, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, which was Rossetti’s home for twenty years.