Berkeley - St Mary

Above Top: Cross Slab
Above lower & Right lower: boy (late 13th C)

Above Top: Berkeley Lady
(late 13th century)

Lady (early 14th century)

 The above are all small figurs, probably heart burial; the actual bodies of the above would have been buried in St Augustine's Abbey, Bristol.

Thomas 8th Lord Berkeley (ob 1361) & Wife
Alabaster  effigies on tomb chest where the quatrefoils are divided by strips of deep blues glass, mostly renewed in 1846.
This was the Lord Berkeley to whose care Edward II was entrusted prior to his murder.

James, 11th Lord Berkeley & second son, James
Alabaster effigies effigies on tomb chest under a stone canopy.The tomb chest has canopied niches with figures of saints and panels with quatrefoils.The effigies are of different sizes to indicate the difference in ages.

Knight (13th century) head only carved in low relief over sword and shield (ahown)
Lady (13th century) head only carved in low relief over foliated cross, inscription (shown)
Priest small effigy, not specified
Another effigy
Tomb of c 1300 in pieces
1657 Tablet
1697 Tablet
Rev H T Ellacome and three Wives Tablet
Servants of Above Tablet
1812 tablet by T King of Bath 

Knight ? A Clifford  (c 1300) stone on tomb chest under cusped recess (shown - right)
Lady (c 1310) stone on tomb chest under arch recess with two shields (shown - right)
Civilian (mid 14th century) stone, small under cusped recess
John Clifford (ob 1684) Baroque tablet
Ann Wade (ob 1687) Baroque tablet
Anthony Clifford (17th century) tablet with arms
William Clutterbuck (ob 1727) Classical, marble
Samuel & James Pearce (ob 1798-9) marble tablet by John Pearce
Nathaniel Clifford (ob 1817) marble tablet with arms
Henry Barnard (ob 1813) by T King of Bath

Sir Giles Berkeley (ob 1294)
Heart burial; small bust of knight set in pointed oval under a niche with shafts; hands hold heart above a shield on his breast.

Sir Thomas Berkeley (ob 1365) & Wife possibly Joan. Knight with cross legs and lady wears a wimple. Note lion. Armour is c. 1340's so effigy may have been made during his life time. Joan was the mother of Dick Whittington.

Civilian (c 1340)
Young man, effigy under cinquefoil recess

Sir Giles Bridges (ob 1511) & Isabel brass matrix with one shield remaining
Castleman Family ( late 17th century) Baroque marble tablet
Amelia Hicks (ob 1830) Neo-Greek by Hart of Cheltenham
A good collection of 18th century headstones and chest tombs

Lady (c 1340) Small effigy of a young girl; she hold her glove; dog at feet. Perhaps a daughter of above

Robert Duke of  Normany (ob 1134) Eldest son of William the Conqueror Effigy: Wood - 13th C; TC: Wood -14th/15th C. Note the structure over the effigy - the 'hearse' - one of only three in the country.
(Presbytery)

Alderman Thomas Machen,  wife  Christian & Children (c 1615)
(N. Aisle)

John Bower (ob 1615), wife Ann & Children
(N Transept)

 Richard Pates (ob 1588)
He was founder of Pates Grammar
School in Cheltenham and builder of Matson House. The painted kneeling  Elizabethan  figures can just be made out.
(S. Transept)

Leckhampton - St Peter

 Some 19th Century Wall Monuments:

 William Joseph Gale
(ob 1877 age 19)
Died near Nazareth
'He fell among robbers'

Frances Money Evans (26), Fanny Rolanda (11) & Frederick Lloyd Gambier (11 m)
- see below

John Howden Commander RN (ob 1845)
Rachel Howden (ob 1861)
his widow

 Jones

Mjr Edward Nevil MacReady
30th Reg.
No Date

Charles Whitmore
(ob 1844)

The Evans monument says that these were the wife and children of Mjr Henry Lloyd Evans of the XVII Regiment Bombay Infantry, who all died in 1857 at Cawnpoor by a fall of the barracks roof, struck by cannon shot on the 16th day of the siege. Her brother Henry Fitz Roy Gambier, Lt in the 38th Regiment Bengal Light Infantry  who was mortally wounded at the assault of Delhi, 1857.

Minchinhampton - Holy Trinity

Lady (c 1325) under later canopy. Said to have been erected in 1888 when effigy may have been rescued from the churchyard. (shown)
Civilian (c 1360) again under similar canopy. Excellent condition.
The above are said to be William de Cheltenham (ob after 1361) & Eleanor.
John Dennis (ob 1638) Renaissancemarble tab. with heraldry
Epitaph (17th C) to an unamed deaf woman by Thomas Cam
Thomas Ridley (ob 1714) Baroque marble
Edward Hathway (ob 1798) Tab with draped urn by James, Dunn & Drewett of Bristol.

Shipton Moyne - St John the Baptist 

A Le Moyne (mid 14th C)
Note the bascinet and plate. NE Recess, Chancel

Le Moyne Knight (NW Recess) and Lady (opposite S)  (early 14th C) both in chancel
 

Judge Thomas Estcourt (ob 1599) & Wife
Nine children kneeling frontally are shown on two sides. Above is a canopy with caryatids and heraldry (Estcourt Chapel)

Left: 2 Medieval  Male Civilians dug up from churchyard in 1902. That on the right  is mid 14th C.
Above: Military effigy of c. 1300, said to be William de Braose.

 Sir John Poyntz (ob 1376) ? (shown)
Lady (early 15th C) (shown)
Robert Poytz (ob 1439) and wives Anne & Katherine 3 incised slabs
Canopied Tomb (early 16th C) (shown)
William Machin (ob 1716) Classical tab
Mary Senior (ob 1814) By Tyler
Thomas Richardson (ob 1834) By Tyler
Bluett Jones (ob 1836) By O Greenaway
John Alway (ob 1842) By J Thomas of Bristol

14th C Slab (shown)
William Warren, Wife & Children (16th C), Semi-reclining.
Charles Court (ob 1819) Tab by Woolcott of Bristol

 Wall Monuments: Sir William Romney (ob 1611) with bust. By Thomas Webb (1776)
John Savage (ob 1803) Draped urn by Jones, Dunn & Tyley of Bristol
Gilbert Gastrell (ob 1732) coloured marbles and cherubs, surrounded by five - 1755-1810 -  (reset) byT King of Bath
Joseph & Elizabeth Wickes (ob 1764) by T Webb
Henry Harvey (ob 1789) by William Paty of Bristol
John Paul (ob 1787) by T King
Deborah Roche (ob 1720) Cartouche by Parsons
Sanders Family by Lancaster & Walker of Bristol
Knight & Lady of Gastrell Family effigies

Tewkesbury Abbey

Guy de Brien (ob 1390) He married the widowed Elizabeth (above) in 1350. Standard bearer to Edward lll at Crécy. Canopy with remains of colouring and gilding. Effigy appears to come from same Flemish school as Edward Lord Despenser, so prepared before his death. (shown)
Wakeham Cenotaph (mid 15th C ie a century earlier than John Wakeham, the last Abbot who died in 1549). The cadaver is placed on the hollow altar tomb rather than, as is the usual practice, below; it lies in a open shroud, crawling with vermin - a gruesome sight. The canopy is said to have been copied for the throne of the House of Lords. shown
Archdeacon Robeson (ob 1912) Altar tomb with effigy by Bryant Baker.
Abbot Cheltenham (abbot 1481-1509) Altar tomb with four panels with quatrefoils bearing shields; canopy with shields, scallop shells and pilgrim's staves.
Hugh Despenser (ex. 1325) much mutilated tomb as the canopied niches contained many images. The coffin is however of:-
John Cotes (abbot 1328-47) Purbeck marble
Tomb with crocketed ogee cinquefoil arch. This and the previous tomb are at the back of the sedilia.
Abbot Robert Forthington (ob 1254) Purbeck marble coffin slab with small figure in low relief within the head of a foliated cross; ogee canopy.
Abbot Alan (ob 1202) the biographer of Thomas Becket.(shown)
Ann, Lady Clarke (ob 1800) White marble slab flanked by Faith and Charity; by  Flaxman
Dr George Peyton (ob 1742) Classical marble tablet by Thomas White of Worcester.

John Roberts of Fiddington (ob 1631) half length upright effigy
Joseph Reeve (ob 1651) artist, stone and slate Baroque tablet

Chantry Chapel of Robert Fitzhamon (ob 1107) He was the founder of the Abbey though the chapel dates from about 1395. A very fine example of the Perpendicular.
Trinity Chapel built between 1375 and 1380 as a chantry for Edward Lord Despenser (ob 1375) . It resembles the above but a canopied niche rises from the roof and contains the life sized praying effigy of the commemorated. shown
Beauchamp Chapel built about 1430 by Isabel Despenser, Countess of Warwick as a chantry chapel for her first husband Richard Beauchamp (ob1421). The chapel is of two storeys and the upper may once have contained the kneeling figures of Isabel and her two husbands.
Hugh, Baron Despenser (ob 1348) & Elizabeth Montague (ob 1359) Recumbent alabaster effigies.  Armour contemporary with time of his death. Fine canopy.(shown)

Tomb early 14th C
Mrs Criak  the author of John Halifax, Gentleman. Tablet by H H Armstead, 1890; marble.
SOUTH TRANSEPT
Thomas Collins (ob 1900) builder; alabaster tablet with portrait in low relief.
Mann Family Classical marble tablet with cherubs heads and torches by Richard Squire of Worcester, 1749

Tomb 14th C Decorated with elaborate arch
Charles Wynde (ob 1716) Marble with bust, painted arms
Catherine Price Neo-Greek marble tablet by Gardner of Tewkesbury 1844
Kenhelm Chandler (ob 1809) Neo-Greek marble tablet by Gardner of Tewkesbury 1833
Knight (c 1350) stone effigy with later ogee arch

Agnes Bradeston (ob 1369) ? brass of lady, 4' 5"(shown)
Sir Robert Bradeston (ob c 1356) ? & Lady Effigies.  l. He cross legged. Badge of head of fish by his L shoulder. (N wall of chapel)
Sir Edmund Bradeston & Lady (ob c 1395) straight legs. Bristol school (he shown)
LadyAgnes (14th C) (shown)
Knight (late 14th C) cross legs. under  cinqfoil canopy. (shown)
Mathew (ob 1631) & Thomas (ob 1658) Buck brass inscip.
James Buck (ob 1612) T.c with Renaissance detail, canopy
Amy Symes (ob 1662) Renaissance monument
Arthur Tucker (ob 1785) Tab by T Paty
Thomas Mountjoy (ob 1797) by Emett of Downend
William Perry (ob 1807) by Wood of Bristol
William Rickards (ob 1827) & Thomas Whitfield (ob 1834) By O Greenway
Mary Brydges (ob 1826) by T Clark of Bristol