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==Death== [[File:Maria Fitzherbert memorial in St John the Baptist's Church, Brighton.jpg|thumb|right|Memorial in St John the Baptist's Church]] [[File:Steine House, Brighton (YMCA Building) (IoE Code 480996).jpg|upright|thumb|right|220px|Maria Fitzherbert lived at [[Steine House]] in [[Brighton]] from 1804 until her death]] Architect [[William Porden]] designed [[Steine House]], on the west side of Old Steine in [[Brighton]], for Fitzherbert. She lived there from 1804 until she died in 1837. She was buried at [[St John the Baptist's Church, Brighton]], a church built largely with her funds.<ref name=church>{{cite web |title=CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST |website=[[Historic England]] |publisher=Historic England |date=n.d. |access-date=2021-09-28 |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1380031 |quote=In the south wall next to the organ gallery, monument to Maria Fitzherbert (1756-1837), the Catholic widow who was married to the Prince of Wales in 1783 and who was disowned by the Prince Regent in 1811, although she continued to frequent Brighton. The monument shows her as widow with the Lamp of Memory and kneeling before the broken gospels, assuming the form either of Fidelity or Religion. She is wearing 3 wedding rings as Catholic ecclesiastical law requires. She was patroness of this congregation.}}</ref> The memorial sculpture in the nave shows her wearing three wedding rings.<ref name=austen/><ref name=church/>
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