Isabella St George wife of Richard Buslingthorpe c1435 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/138AuP - She must have outlived him as she wears a widows barb. It was in her right that he held a moiety of the manor of Bothumsel (Bothamstall), Notts. (They both may have been related to Margaret de Buslingthorpe at Bothamstall d1369 daughter of Richard de Buslingthorpe flic.kr/p/doPFWm )

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Unknown 15c Lady - Altar tomb has the arms of the Long family with Berkeley and Seymour (?) quarterings. The panel on the front shows a winged angel between two lions. Or possibly Eleanor d1543 wife of Henry Long 1556, daughter of John Wrottesley and Dorothy Sutton www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8141103051/ who has a Berkeley ancestor ? ) . OR (c1490 Katherine wife of Henry Long en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Long_(politician) , mother of Robert ??? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Wraxall_Manor )

Almost certainly John Carent, d1478, and his two wives

Late C15 tomb of an unknown cleric, perhaps the archdeacon of St David's named John Denby of Tenby who died in 1499

SK8810 :: Holy Cross, Burley on the Hill - Effigies, near to Burley, Rutland, England by John Salmon

Sir Christopher Curwen,(1382-1453 Lord of the Manor and wife Elizabeth Huddleston = Limestone effigy showing signs of 1994 fire damage Christopher was the eldest son of William Curwen of Workington by his 1st wife Elena / Elizabeth widow of Thomas Whitrigg of Branthwaite ,daughter of Sir Richard le Brun of Drumburgh Castle, Bowness, Cumberland, He m Elizabeth daughter of Richard Hudleston & Sybil Croft (Elizabeth's father was the son of Isabella Neville 1516 daughter of Sir John Neville, Earl of Northumberland & Isabel Ingoldisthorpe by 1st husband William Huddleston ; His mother Isabella was also the 2nd wife of Sir William Smythe 1525 at Elford www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/645801 lord of Elford via his 1st wife Margery Stanley Children: 1. Thomas d 1463 m Anne daughter of Robert Lowther and Margaret De Strickland 2. Mabel m William d1511 son of Thomas Sandford and Margaret Musgrave: Monument erected c1470 by grandson Christopher d1499 son of Thomas & Anne, who married Anne daughter of Sir John Pennington by Catherine Tunstall His younger brother was John Curwen 1441 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8651062533/ -Armourial shields of his parents, wife, son and grandson are around the tomb.(Le Brun, Huddleston, Curwen, Lowther , Pennington) Limestone Monument erected by his grandson Christopher together with his wife Anne Pennington c1470) Sir Christopher is in full plate armour with a helmet with Unicorn crest beneath his head and dog at his feet. Sir Christopher built the first hall at ground level. In 1417 he took a party to a tourney in Castle Green, Carlisle. He was one of 6 English knights jousting with 6 scottish knights and he severely wounded his opponent Sir Halyburton. He was a member of Henry V's army in France in 1415 following the victory of Agincourt, It is not certain that he took part in the battle. However he was rewarded for his support and was given estates in France being given the lordship of Cany-en-Caux in 1428, for defeating the rebellious Count Baur in that region. In 1438 he was one of the Commisioners appointed for 9 years to observe the truce between England and Scotland. He died 17th July 1453, The monument was restored after the 1994 fire using old photographs and a time capsule was placed inside.

St Leonard, Apethorpe, Northamptonshire From Woodnewton I cycled north accompanied by drifting red kites to one of the real goals of my journey, the church at Apethorpe. One of the pleasures of this part of the world is that, like much of south Cambridgeshire, east Norfolk and pretty much all of Suffolk, you are never more than a couple of miles from the next village, and I soon reached my first proper spire of the day, the church sitting beside the manor house, a war memorial forming a village cross in the street, and entered the church of St Leonard, Apethorpe. This is an excellent church, full of interest, tightly set in its stone-walled churchyard which accentuates the height of the spire, the inner door wedged open. Best known for the Mildmay monument, which I'll come to in a moment, the most striking thing on entry, for me at least, are two tremendous windows in the south aisle, both by Christopher Whall. Each depicts three saints and commemorates two brothers of the Brassey family killed in the First World War. There is one Christopher Whall window in the whole of Suffolk. There are two here at Apethorpe. Turning east, a faded doom painting surmounts the chancel arch, but beyond you step across the Reformation divide, for everything here was richly provided in the 17th and 18th Centuries. The chancel aisle is wider than the nave aisle, and here is the early 17th Century Mildmay memorial, one of the biggest monuments I've ever seen in an English country church. It towers some twenty feet into the air, the Mildmays asleep in bed in the middle and life-size sculptures of women representing virtues at each corner of the bed. Extraordinary. Nearby is a 15th Century memorial to a knight with a near-unvandalised Annunciation the Blessed Virgin above his head, and a sweet 19th Century memorial to a child showing him asleep in bed. But the most remarkable thing about this place is the early 17th Century English glass in the aisle east window. A most unusual date, of course, and a spectacular response to Caroline and Laudian piety, depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and the Day of Judgement. It must be one of the finest of its kind outside of an Oxford or Cambridge college chapel. The east window of the chancel is also unusual, an 18th Century English representation of the Last Supper, and this period must have provided most of the money for refurnishing this place. Unfortunately, the Victorians put in big ugly pews in the nave, but the lady doing the flowers told me they are raising money to have them removed and replaced by simple wooden chairs as at Yarwell. All in all a wonderful church. Quite how Simon Jenkins only gave it one star is beyond me.

St John the Baptist, Wadworth, South Yorkshire. Alabaster table tomb to Edmund Fitzwilliam (d1465) and wife Katherine. He has his head on a helm and feet on a dog. He is set to the right of his wife whose head rests on a tasseled cushion. Angels with shields on the side panels.

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Effigies of a Knight (c1360) and a Lady (c1469) on the north side of the chancel at Aston. These figures are assumed to have originated at Maxstoke Priory and are believed to have been transferred to Aston following the Dissolution. A familiar landmark in north Birmingham, Aston's parish church of SS Peter & Paul is also the most substantial piece of medieval architecture left anywhere near the city centre, or rather would have been had it not been so completely rebuilt in 1879-90 by J.A.Chatwin (whose work seems synonymous with Birmingham's older churches!), leaving just the 14th century west tower (with it's curiously designed upper stage, adorned with deeply recessed blank arcading) and spire. It is nonetheless a splendid sight in this otherwise not too glamourous area, and Chatwin's work is a solid exercise in neo-Perpendicular, adorned with much fine carved detail and an apse reminiscent of old St Michael's in Coventry. The interior is most impressive, somewhat dark but richly decorated, with a mixed bag of Victorian glass (Hardman's in the apse, where I was shown the pink giraffe!) and very much of it's time, all under a fine hammerbeam roof, more elaborate over the chancel, as is the stonework generally with dramatic cusped ogee arches providing a setting for some of the many tombs. There are several good medieval monuments with effigies, mostly to the Erdington family and the bulk concentrated in the Erdington Chapel on the south side. None are of the highest quality or best condition, but a worthy collection nevertheless. The largest monument is the 1620s Devereux tomb with it's canopy but rather difficult to see in it's somewhat blackened state in a dark corner. There are also many Baroque and later wall tablets adorned with putti etc distributed throughout the aisles. What would have been the most important piece of stained glass is currently stored in a crate in the north aisle, it is a large single-arched composition by Francis Eginton from 1798 with a female figure ascending to Heaven. It had been originally installed in the Erdington Chapel, but relocated in the Victorian rebuilding and hidden behind the organ for years, until more recently being removed following vandal damage. The church has no funds to restore it with and no space to put it in, but it is clearly an important work that needs to be back on display somewhere, perhaps the City Museum & Art Gallery, since they have an extensive stained glass display? I'd been intending to visit this church for some time, but had heard it was rather difficult to get inside. I'd phoned the parish office before I left home and a very helpful young lady answered and said it'd be no problem whilst she was around (till 12ish) so I broke my journey to Erdington and made the shortish walk from Aston railway station. After struggling to find wihich door to knock on she emerged and kindly escorted me through the offices into the church, and after a brief introduction left me to snap away by myself. I'm afraid I got a bit carried away and when nobody arrived at 12 to lock up I pushed my luck and carried on a bit longer, only to find the poor girl was waiting patiently around the corner! I apologised and should add how grateful we should be to such individuals who give their time for our enjoyment of the buildings in their care!

Unusual effigies, thought to be Sir John de Neville 1316, his heraldic shield possibly bearing the arms of shield to be Cantelupe, by his side, who lies under a blanket with his wife who was possibly an heiress as she lies in the position of higher status, dogs sleeping at their feet. The Nevilles lived here until their home was purchased by the Rochfords in 15c. Their is thought to have been in North Stoke church before being cast out to the elements, found in a field and brought here in 19c. It is similar to a knight and wife at Careby flic.kr/p/KT36N3 in the same county - Church of St. Mary & St. Andrew, Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire

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Dog Effigy Bottle. Late Mississippian period reproduction dog effigy bottle.

St Laurence's at Gnosall is a very impressive building which appears at first sight to be mostly 15th century, but has much earlier origins with significant parts of the 12th century Norman church remaining, more apparent from inside, with some fine early Norman arches at the crossing supporting the tower, and carved Romanesque capitals in the adjoining south transept. The furnishings are mostly Victorian, including an unusual and attractive alabaster font. The stained glass is limited to the imposing east window from 1918, and a more recent engraved piece at the west end. Only a small patchwork of fragments in the south chapel survives from the churches once extensive medieval glass. Also in the south chapel are two ill-matched medieval effigies placed together on a single plinth. One is an alabaster knight of c1470, whilst alongside is a badly defaced child's figure at least a century earlier. Clearly they do not belong to the same monument, but together they comprise a very odd (and barely legal) couple! The church is normally kept locked but has limited opening on certain week days.