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Robert (1575) &
Anne Blount. She was the daughter of
Hugh Fisher & jane Wall of Emley Lovet. Four
children depaicted on the sides of the tomb
chest: Margaret, Thomas, Walter &
Elizabeth. Anne held s prayer book with
the quotation: 'O Lord Consider our desire'.
'Here lieth the body of Robert Blount who
deceased 1575 and Anne his wife being yet living
desires God to continue her life'. The Blounts
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Walter Blount (1561), son of
Thomas Blount of Kinlet & Isabel Acton
(1562) (Walter is the younger
brother of John Blount, monument at Kinlet,
Salop). The children represented around the tomb
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Francis |
Margery |
Joyce |
Izabel |
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Above: Richard Hoby
(1617), Wife and family. Whole monument and
details. Two of the figures are headless but the monument
retains some of its polychrome. One of the kneeling figures
is now recumbent: rearrange the legs and you will see its
original kneeling position.
Left: William Jarrett (1685)
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Bromsgrove - St John
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Sir Humphrey Stafford (1440)
and Wife alabaster effigies on tomb chest (shown
left)
Sir John Talbot of Albrighton
(1501) and Two Wives alabaster effigies on tomb chest
(shown right)
Also but not shown:
Male effigy
Female effigy
Effigy (in churchyard)
Lady Talbot of Grafton Manor (1517)
alabaster
George Lyttelton (1600) semi-reclining
effigy on elbow
Bishop Hall of Bristol (1710) tablet
with putto head
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William Sheldon (1570) & Wife &Ralph Sheldon (1613) &
Wife The former started the first tapestry
workshop in England |
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Chaddesley Corbett - St Cassian |
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Above:
Mrs Packington (1657) aged 27 'A
Wife and Widowe Rare'
Left: Thomas Lees (1847)
surgeon, buried at Rochdale; his wife Mary Ann
(1834) 'buried in this churchyard';
Edward Jackson MD FRCS (1889) 'buried at
Leamington. |
Above: Humfrey
Pakington (1637); his daughter Anne
Lady Audeley; her 'sonne' Henry
Right: Elizabeth Holt (1647)
Left: Willaim Wheeler (1817)
solicitor; his daughter Anne Harwood
(1847) ; her husband Rev Thomas Harwood
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Elmley Castle - St Mary |
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The Savage Monument
William & Giles Savage
(1631) & the latter's wife, Mary.
Note: lady Mary holding a baby, four
children kneeling at the feet, the stag's head (also at the
feet) with an arrow piercing the neck. There are two back plates
to this monument: one is shown on the right.
The colour photographs were supplied by
Dr John Davis.
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Left: First Earl of
Coventry (1699) Marble by William Stanton
(shortly after 1700)
The second earl refused to have
this monument erected in Croome d'Abitot church, the
funerary chapel of the Coventry family. His reason is
revealed by the improper achievement of arms and false
epitaph on the monument.
'Or, on a chief sable, three
escallops of the field a crescent gules for difference'.
These are quite legally the arms of the Grahams of
Norton Conyers co. York, but are implaed with those of
Coventry, implying that his second wife was gentry, a
Graham, and armigerous.
The second earl maintained that
his fathers second wife was the daughter of Richard
Grimes a common waterman, and that she had been a
servant of the Coventries, and maid to the Lady Winifred
his mother. Apparently Gregory King, Lancaster Herald of
the College of Arms had directed the arms to be placed
on the monument, and it is interesting that he married
for his second wife Frances Grimes the Countess’s
sister!
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So by thSt Philip & St Jamesis ‘scam’ both the
earl’s second wife, and Lancaster himself by
association, had a meteoric rise in the Social Register.
From the 'Historical Register'
April 12th, 1724
“Dy’d Elizabeth Countess Dowager
of Coventry, relict of Thomas, Earl of Coventry, after
whose death she marry’d Thomas Savage esq.,. She was a
fortunate lady, being but of mean extraction, daughter [
it should be sister] of .... Grimes, a lighterman on the
river Thames, and household sevant to the earl who
marry’d her”
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Edmund Coles (1606)
'a man of bad character' Until the
19th century he wore a real leather skull cap |
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Mary Coles kneeling effigies |
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Essex Devereux
(1639)
Note the little
girl sitting on the ledge below |
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| John & Mary Baker (1706) & son
Walter |
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Walter Deverus (c1640)
Alabaster |
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Kempsey - St Mary |
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| Sir Edmund
Wylde (1620) |
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Mrs Elizabeth Eaton
(1790)
by William Stephens of Worcester |
Sir Thomas Foley (1821)
by J Stephens |
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Kidderminster - St Mary |
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Left & Centre Top: Lady, late 15th century,
said to be Joyce Beauchamp (1473) Note
the fan vaulting under the canopy
Right & Centre Bottom: Sir Hugh
Chokesey (1445) & Wife Alabaster |
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Thomas Blount (1568) & Wife Alabaster.
Note the row of children on the back wall |
Above Lower: Sir
Edward Blount (1630) & Two Wives Alabaster |
Above Top: Honry
Toye
Above Bottom: Sir Rapj Clare
(1670) |
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Worcester Cathedral |
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There is no entry fee; there is a
charge (2009) for photography of £3.00 and for video
recorders and tripods £5.00
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Nave - South Aisle
Nave
Nave -North Aisle North
Transept South Transept
Choir
North Choir Aisle South
Choir Aisle
North
Retrochoir Aisle and North-East Transept
South Retrochoir Aisle and South-East Transept
Cloisters
Retrochoir Lady Chapel |
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1689) |
Top:
Sir Thomas Lyttleton
(1481)
Bottom:
Thomas James (1804) |
Top & Bottom: A
Prior of the 14th Century
The effigy has been set in
a late 13th Century recess |
Bishop Gauden (1662)
originally at back of high
altar |
op: Sir Thomas Street (1696)
by Wilton 1775-80
Bottom to the Left
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Far Left:
Col Sir Henry Walton Ellis
(1815) He was killed in the Battle of
Waterloo. By Bacon Jnr
Above Left:
Sir Thomas Lyttelton (1650) & Wife
(1666) B&W Marble by Thomas Stanton
Above Right: Mrs Warren (1792)
by Ricketts
Far Right:
Richard Jolly (1803)
By Bacon Snr
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Bishop Parrie
(1616)
His effigy is set in a
13th Century Recess
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Bishop Freake
(1591)
by Anthony Tolly
(signed)
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Richard Woolfe
(1803)
Sgraffito plate
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Bishop Johnson
(1774)
by Nollekens
(signed)
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Bishop Blandford (
1675)
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Above left:
Bishop Thornborough ( 1641)
Erected in 1627 (i.e well before his death)but
inever actually completed
Above right:
Dean Eedes (1596)
Right:
Robert Wilde (1608) & Wife
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Above left & right:
A
Beauchamp & Wife (c 1400)
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Bishop Philpott (1892)
by Sir Thomas Brock. This was originally in the
South Transept but is now rather tucked away at the back
of the aisle, surrounded by chairs
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Bishop Hurd (1808)
by W H Stephens
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Top:
Mrs Godfreye (1613)
Bottom: John
Moore (1613) & Family
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c 1640 The main inscription was
painted on the wreath; above the incription is in Greek
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Bishop Bollingham
(1576)
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Transept |
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South
Transept |
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by Roubiliac. Dr Physick calls this the most
important monument in the Cathedral |
Bishop Fleetwood (1683) Black &
white marble
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Bishop Stillingfleet (1699)
with 2 putti heads
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Sir Thomas Street (1696)
by Wilton 1775-80
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Mrs Hall (1794)
Bp Philpott's monument is now at the west end of the
North Aisle
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Above, Top Right & Bottom Right: King John
(1216) The Purbeck marble effigy is c. 1230 and
the tomb chest c. 1529. This is the earliest effigy in
the country to an English king.
Left & Below: Chantry
chapel and tomb chest (no effigy) of Prince
Arthur (1502), elder brother of Henry VIII. The
work on this began in 1504
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Bishop Maddox (1759)
by Prince Hoare. Black & white marble
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Rev Dr Marriot by T. King of
Bath
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William Burslem (1820) by
Westmacott Jnr. It is unfortunate that this
monument is partly hidden behind a screen containing
steps to the organ console
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Mrs Margaret Rae (1772) by I F
Moore
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Top: Knight of early 14th Century Purbeck
Marble
Bottom: Bishop de Braunsford (ob ?
1394)
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Alcove containing the above Bp Cobham's effigy
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Top: Bishop de
Cobham (1327)
Bottom: Bishop c 1300
Purbeck Marble |
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Alcove containing Bp de Braunsford's effigy
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Lady of mid 13th Century
Purbeck Marble
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South Retrochoir Aisle & South-East Transept |
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Above:
Knight -
mid 13th Century. The arms shield have been painted in
much later times
Above Right: Sir Gryffyth Ryce (1523) On the tomb chest are two modern brasses by
Hardiman
Below: Bishop Gifford (1302) &
Lady of the Gifford family (c 1300)
These effigies are set in the
substructure of Prince Arthur's Chantry and difficult
to photograph. To the right are Hollis's remarkable
etchings of them.
I did not locate the two Purbeck
ladies referred to in Pevsner (2009)
Far right - ecclesiastic in cloisters. Is this the
effigy Hollis saw?
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Retrochoir |
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Top Left:
Lord Lyttelton (1878) White Marble on
alabaster base; by J Forsyth
Top: said to be
Prior Moore (1525) In alcove at back of high
altar.
Top Right: Earl
of Dudley (1888) White Marble on alabaster
base; by J Forsyth
Left: Charlotte
Elizabeth Digby (1825) White marble by Chantrey
Right: Dean Peel
(1877) back of high altar, alabaster, incised
cross with Signs of Evangelists.
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Lady Chapel |
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Two bishops' effigies of Purbeck
Marble. That on the left is said to be Bishop
William de Blois (1236); that on
the right, Bishop Walter de Cantelupe (1266).
Note the difference in the relief.
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