WARWICKSHIRE

 

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 Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (ob 1369) & Katherine Mortimer,
Daughter of the Earl of March

Alabaster effigies and tomb chest. Against tomb chest are mourners, many are plaster or part plaster replacements.
He was the grandfather of Richard Beauchamp and fought at Crécy and Poitiers.

Chapter House

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (ob 1628)

Six poster with two tiers of black columns. Black sarcophagus. Top is view of whole tomb from vestry; lower is view of sarcophagus from far side. This monuments fills the former chapter house and cannot be photographed in its entirety.
By Thomas Ashby

South Transept

William Hiorn (ob 1776)

Architect-builder. Tablet with urn

Note the skeleton emerging from a shroud in and on the pediment

 

  Warwick -
St Mary's

North Vestry

Sir Thomas Puckering
(ob 1639)  

Altar tomb and reredos in black and white marble. By Nicholas Stone

 

Francis Parker (ob 1693)

Tablet with columns and open pediment.

North Transept

Thomas Hewett (ob 1737)

Note the putti  reclining on the 'broken' pediment and the pile of books below

Thomas Oken (ob 1573)

Brasses but the surround is later

South Transept

Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (ob 1401) & Wife

Brasses, now set high on wall. He was father of Richard Beauchamp, was exiled by Richard II in 1397 but restored by Henry IV in 1399

Henry Beaufoy & Wife
(c 1700)

Crypt



 Stone coffin lid (very deep) with head in low relief sunk in quatrefoil and Calvary Cross below.
Not in situ
There are many grave stones in the floor and two burial vaults lead off, one sealed.

The Beauchamp Chapel

         




 

 

 

Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of  Warwick (1439)

Photographs of  the whole of the Beauchamp Chapel taken from the entrance, and several representations of the gilt-bronze effigy, the whole tomb and the weepers around the Purbeck Marble tomb chest..
The etchings of the effigy and the weepers are by C A Stothard and the steel plate engraving of the whole tomb is by E. Blore

 The 1448 contract for making this tomb survives: it indicates that it is not a portrait and refers to the following who were involved in its making: John Bourde of Corfe supplied the Purbeck Marble, William Austen of London cast the metal, John Massingham, carver, made the model, Barthilmew Lambespring, goldsmith, polished and gilded the effigy; one Roger Webb is also referred to in this contract but it is not known what his role was in the construction. A separate contract of the following year with William Austen to cast the effigy. A third contract of 1453 is for brass plates for the lid, sides and the hearse; in this contract John Essex of London , marbler and Thomas Stevyns of London, coppersmith, also appear with William Austen.
Cast gilt bronze effigy in armour on a Purbeck marble tomb chest. The Earl's hands are held in a curious separated position. Head on helmet with crest of a swan and his feet on both a bear and griffin. The details of the armour are very fine. Charles Stothard lifted the effigy down from the tomb chest to draw its dorsal surface where the armour is again shown in very fine detail. Over the whole is a hooped framework - the 'hearse' referred to above; this would have supported a fabric cover and only be removed when masses were said for his soul. Around the tomb chest are gilt bronze 'mourners' - seven male and seven female. One of these represents his son, Henry who became Duke of Warwick, another his wife Cecily Neville (daughter of the Earl of Salisbury) and another her brother Richard Neville, who inherited the Beauchamp estates to become 'Warwick the Kingmaker'.
Richard Beauchamp fought with Henry IV and Henry V and was guardian of the infant Henry VI. At the time of his death he was Governor of Normandy.

Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick
(ob 1589)


Alabaster and marble. Tomb chest with shields around. Recumbent effigy rests on a rolled up map, with a 18th century iron coronet. Bear at feet.  
He was the elder brother of Robert Dudley . 
'The Good Earl'



 

   

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (ob1588)
& Countess Lettice (ob 1634) 

Standing alabaster wall monument with two recumbent effigies. Columns either side with flat arch with motif of sixteen coloured flags radially arranged. To the left and right are statuettes and small obelisks. Grille by Nicholas Paris of Warwick, 1716.
Robert Dudley was a well known favourite of Queen Elizabeth I
The wooden tablet to Lettice Knollys, the Earl's second wife, is made to look like brass. The inscription tells us she died on Christmas Day  

Lady Katherine Leveson


Marble Tablet
by Edward Marsall (1678) 

Robert Dudley, Lord Denbigh (ob 1584 age 3)

 

Alabaster standing wall monuments with recumbent effigy, bear at feet, head on pillow.
He was Robert and Lettice's only son and predeceased his father.
Called 'The Noble Impe'


 

Two Military Effigies and one Lady from Aston Church. One Ecclesiastic Effigy from St Martin, Birmingham