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William Thorpe (d1504) and wife. St. Mary, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire.
Thomas Knightley (1516). St Mary, Fawsley, Northamptonshire.
Elizabethan
16th century church monuments
By walwyn - August 12th, 2009
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FrançaisAshby St Ledgers
By walwyn - August 4th, 2009
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Principal home of the Catesby family from 1375 to the first part of the 1600s. The manor was briefly confiscated in 1485 following the execution of William Catesby, a principle councilor to Richard III, who had been captured by Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth (22 August 1485). The manor next came to prominence when Robert Catesby (1573 – November 8, 1605), became the originator of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up James I and Parliament in 1605.
Bishop Edmund Freke - Worcester Cathedral
By walwyn - May 2nd, 2011
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Edmund Freke (d1591) was Bishop of Norwich (1575-1584), Bishop of Worcester (1584 -1591), and chaplain to Queen Elizabeth I.
Brass of Thomas Wylmer - Staverton, Northamptonshire
By walwyn - January 1st, 2010
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Standing monument with Ionic columns, metope frieze framing brass plate with priant figures.
Children and Monuments from the late medieval period to the 17th century.
By walwyn - November 8th, 2011
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Monuments or memorials to children in English churches were extremely rare until the late 18th and early 19th century. In the 16th century one can find the occassional child tomb amongst the aristocracy, such as that of the The Noble Impe at St Mary's Warwick, but otherwise children do not appear to have warranted memorials in their own right.
Denton family tomb - Hereford Cathedral
By walwyn - June 23rd, 2011
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This alabaster monument to Alexander Denton and his wife Anne (nee Willison), dates from about 1566. Anne his wife and the child by her side are the only ones that are buried here.
Effigy of Sir Michael Poulteney - Misterton, Leicestershire
By walwyn - October 18th, 2009
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Alabaster tomb effigy of Sir Michael Poulteney (d1567).
Elizabeth Knightley Tomb - Norton, Northamptonshire.
By walwyn - October 20th, 2009
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Alabaster memorial to Elizabeth Knightley (d1602). A recumbent effigy with somewhat brightly coloured decoration. All Saints, Norton, Northamptonshire.
Fawsley
By walwyn - August 16th, 2009
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Fawsley Hall was the home of the Knightley Family from the turn of the C15. Where they developed the land for sheep farming. At the end of the C15 the peasants were evicted to make more land available for sheep.
The present hall dates from early C16 and was extended throughout the C16, a Georgian classical style wing was added in C18 and the Estate landscaped by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown in the 1760s and 1770s.
Francis Shirley Tomb - Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire
By walwyn - October 18th, 2009
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Tomb of Francis Shirley of Staunton Harold (d1571), and his wife Dorothy.
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