Church Memorials

 

This week I thought I would show you something different. Most churches I visit have a memorial on the walls to one person or another. Many have multiple memorials to different members of the family. Some of the stained glass windows I showed last week were placed there in memory of a loved one, other elaborate ones which are placed on the walls like mini effigies and a lot of them are very old indeed. I  will show some of the more impressive ones I have seen in the churches.

St John in Burford Oxfordshire has a few impressive memorials but this one I liked for the reason it was to Edmund Harman who was Barber & Personal Servant to King Henry VIII now that is a job I do not envy him of doing

St Bartholomew  Brightwell Baldwin 

has a very elaborate  memorial to the Stone Family taking up the whole East wall of a chapel 

This impressive memorial is across the river from where I live in a village called South Stoke at St Andrews Church belongs to a Griffeth Higgs who passed away in 1659 and is buried in the Chancel

Now we go to Wales and Old Radnor Church where in the South Aisle you will find this memorial to Thomas Lewis 

Next we go to St Peter Little Wittenham beside the River Thames in Oxfordshire where we will find this memorial to Sir William & Lady Dunche Sir William  was Married to Mary who was the Daughter of Oliver Cromwell's grandfather. Cromwell himself travelled to the wedding in the church. A relation of Sir William was Deblorah Moodyfounded Gravesend Brooklyn. I might add you will find memorials to the Dunche Family all over Berkshire & Oxfordshire.

This simple one at All Saints Sutton Courtenay  is one many of you should recognise, mind you his grave is not so easy to find it is so simple like the memorial

 Go to Uffington St Mary's Church for this memorial to John Saunders 

This memorial can be seen at Reading Minster though I did not find out who it belonged to

I'm going to finish with a couple from St Andrews Tichbourne Where you can see this very impressive memorial to   Sir Benjamin Tichbourne and his wife Ammphyllis I might add I see his first wife came from Mapledurham a few miles from where I live.

Very near to the Tichbourne memorial you can see this one above to Richard Tichbourne who lived 18 months and died in 1619