Alabaster freestanding tomb to Sir Richard Knightley and his wife Jane Skenard, heiress to Old Aldington (d1534) St Mary, Fawsley, Northamptonshire. The effigy of Richard Knightley is wearing the Collar of Esses which was an emblem used by the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses and adopted as a Tudor badge of office.
Their daughter Susan Knightley married Sir William Spencer the son of Sir John Spencer of Wormleighton an ancestor of the present Earl Spencer.
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