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Thorpe -Le-Soke Theydon Mount Wethersfield Wicken Bonhunt
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Hatfield Broad Oak - St Mary the Virgin |
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| The church is open. Parking is
limited: park on the main road outside the church where
possible. Toilets in church are only open during services.
Excellent pub, The Duke's Head, servicing the best cask ale and food
is just outside the village: plenty of parking. Sometimes
Hatfield Broadoak. O/S Ref: TL 547 166 |
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| Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford (c 1300) Attributed. | |
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 Some features: remains of inscription around chamfer of the slab; heraldry carved in relief on shield; two (now headless) monks sit at a lectern at the feet instead of the usual lion; the head rests on a double pillow on either side of which are remains of an angel; the legs are protected by quitted garment which is reinforced at the anterior part of the knees. |
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| Left: Sir John
Barrington Bt (1788)
This is a standing monument but the lower part is obscured by a radiator. Above left: Sarah Chamberlayne (1742) and Richard Chamberlayne (1758) Above right: William Selwin (1768) 'whose mortal remains lie interred in a Vault in this church,' together with his wife, four sons and one daughter - all unnamed. Erected 1800 by surviving daughter. Far right: Sir Charles Barrington Bt (1788) By J F Moore of London |
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| Sir John Thomas Selwin Bt (1869) Isabella Selwin (Gower) (1858) |
Mary Leveson Gower (1861) |
Lady Ibbertson
(1816) By Flaxman |
Thomas Lownes
(1840) Brass |
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| Stanes Chamberlayne (1834) | Rev John Chamberlayne (1867) Also hie sister Harriet Alicia Chamberlayne (1873) Added later Emma Chamberlayne (1886) | Mary Chamberlayne (Brockie)
(1819) Wife of Staines |
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Stanes Chamberlayne (1782) portrait medallion is at the foot with a putti standing above |
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| Herbert Alfred Potter (1917) Surgeon probationer RNVR. Student of Royal Dental and Middlesex Hospitals. KIA on HMS Contest | simple brass |
| Alfred (1937) and Isabel Potter (1938) Parents of the above | simple brass |
| Mary Maude Galpin (1942) Wife of Rev Canon Galpin, Vicar. Also Francis William Galpin, Litt D. FLS. (1942) Hon Canon of Chelmsford Cathedral | Tablet |
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| Little Dunmow - St Mary |
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| Walter Fitzwalter (1432) & Wife (1464) Alabaster effigies | Lady (early 15 C) alabaster. The tomb chest is later 15th C |
| Other Monuments - Not Shown Sir James Halley (1753) Obelisk with seated female holding a medallion. By Thomas Adye |
| Little Horkesley -St Peter & St Paul |
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| Brygete, wife of Thomas Fynedorne & John, Lord Marney (1549) , & her two husbands | Lady (late 13th C)
Oak Knight (c 1250) Oak Knight (c 1270) Oak. Fragmentary |
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| Sir Robert Swynborne
(1391) & Son (1412)
Tomb chest with brasses |
Tomb chest (late 15th C)
Purbeck marble fragment Kathryn Leventhorp (1502) shroud brass |
| The church was completely destroyed by a bomb in 1940 and rebuilt in 1958 | |
| Little Easton - St Mary |
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Viscount Bourchier, Earl of Essex (1484) & Wife Tomb chest with canopy and brasses. Architectural detail and detail of brasses |
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Sir Henry Maynard (1610) and Wife Alabaster. Very good. He was MP for St Albans. A photograph of the lower part of the monument is shown below left column, bottom row |
William, 1st Baron Maynard (1746) & 2nd wife Daisy Marble. Roman costume. Style is that of Grinling Gibbons but probably by Edward Pearce. A photograph of this monument is shown below left column, top row | Lady Frances Maynard (1613) |
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Above, right column: William, 2nd Baron Maynard (1796) & Wife He stands leaning on an urn, with the portrait of his wife. Around are other members of his family as busts or relief medallions. The panels shows Justice, Charity, Fortitute and other allegorical figures. Marble. Below is shown the detail of that panel. By Charles Stanley, 1746 |
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| Plan of Bouchier Chapel, showing Robert Fyn priest c. 1420. Brass | Lady Bourchier c. 1400 Tomb chest with panels with shields; ogee arch with shields in spandrels. On the above knight 13th C minature effigy |
| Little Samford - St Mary the Virgin |
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Above: William Twedy & Wife 'Here lies the body of William Twedy, Esquire, who distinguised himself as a military commander first under Queen Elizabeth of glorious memory in surpressing the tumult in the north of England, next under the invincible hero the Lord Baron of Willoughby in France, and lastly under the auspices of the illustrious Earl of Leicester, in the Netherlands, and was Warden of the military works at Bergen-op-Zoom. He married firstly Mabell, the daughter of Sir Henry Curwen, Knight of the County of Cumberland, by whom he had one daughter, and afterwards married Margaret, the daughter of Rooke Green, Esquire, of Sampford Parva, in the County of Essex, by whom he had 3 sons and twice as many daughters. He died on the 7th July, 1605, whose soul rest in peace'. from the Latin Left: Bridget Peck (1712) |
 Various wall monuments, starting top right & proceeding clock wise: Sarah Jeffrey (1638) ? Thomas D'Arcy (1485) incription lost but preserved from Weever. John Steevens (1677) age 5 Mary Vernon (1647) NOT SHOWN Thomas Cummocke (1602) with two wives and two children, kneeling he frontal, she profile. |
 Probably Sir William Fitzralph (1323) |
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| Left:
Ann Carew (1605)
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Sir George Hervey (1605) & Wife NOT SHOWN Sir Anthony Cooke (1576) & Family Triptych with kneelers. pediment with Corninthian columns over |
Sir John
Hawkwood (1394) A cenotaph: he was buried at Florence Cathedral |
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St Osyth - St Peter St Paul |
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| [1] John, 2nd Lord Darcy
(1580/81) and his wife, Frances (Rich) Alabaster and marble. |
[2] Thomas, 2nd Lord Darcy KG (15__)
and his wife, Elizabeth (Vere) Alabaster and marble, erected c. 1580 |
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| [3] | John Darcy (1638) Sergeant-at-law. Recess with altar tomb and alabaster effigy in robes with cloak and cap. On back wall brass plate with name of artist, Fr. Griggs (1640) |
| [4] | Briant Darcie (1587) and his wife, Bridget (Corbet) and a number of children and grandchildren. Marble tablet with arms |
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| [S1] | Maget Kenarley (1690) and son, Isaac (1705) |
| [S2] | Richard Tubman (1620) Cook to Thomas, Lord Darcy. Prayer and stepped cross nearly obliterated. |
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 Knight c 1300 |
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| Theydon Mount - St Michael |
 Sir William Smith (1577) |
 Sir William Smith (1626) & Wife |
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Sir William Smith (1631) & Two Wives |
Sir Edward Smith (1713)
Tab by Edward Stanton Rev Sir Edward Smith (1850) Tab by Osmond, Sarum Sir Thomas Smith (1688) |
| Tolleshunt D'Arcy - St Nicholas |
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Monument with brass indentsto unkown person |
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Thomas D'Arcy (1593) & Wife. Right of this are a series of brasses; starting top right and proceeding clockwise: Unknown male c 1425; Anthony D'Arcy (1540) either a copy of a 14th C figure or one reused; Unknown Lady c 1425; Unknown Lady c 1540; Phillipa D'Arcy (1559). The 1540 brasses are palimpsests |
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Wethersfield - St Mary Magdelene |
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| Church is open. There is
limited parking in the street outside the church O/S Ref: TL 712 313 |
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 Henry Wentworth ( 1482) & Elizabeth Alabaster. There are remains of the original polychrome and the ladies' headdress and bodice |
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| 1.) Joseph YOUNGMAN Alias Clerk (1682). 2.) 'In this Chancel Lye the Remains of Mark Mott in the Same Grave with Mark Mott his Eldest Son...' 'Alſo the Remains of Barbara relict of Mark Mott...' 'And of Three other Sons and Four Daughters of MARK and BARBARA aforesaid the four following lye buried in this Chancel...' Thomas (1697), 4th son; Ady (1710), 2nd son; Ann (1749), 4th daughter; Mercy (1752) 2nd daughter . 3.) Joseph Clerk (1790). By E. Thompson. 4.) Jon White LLB (1785) 5 top.) Cpt Philip Everard Graham Marsh MB (1918) RAF. Killed by collision while flying on duty December 1918, aged 23. He was originally an army officer and served in France but transferred to the RAR in June 1918, where he acted as an instructor. NB: Captain is an army rank: the RAF originally used army ranks before modern officer ranks were introduced in 1919. 5 bottom.) Thomas & Mary White and Jonathan. | ||||
| Other Monuments |
| Flying Officer Derek Fortescue
Flannery Gray tablet which states that the
electric lighting was installed in the church in 1947 in his
memory. Thomas White & Thomas George ___ Partly illegible brass which states that the stained glass east window was installed in memory of. Brigadier General Charles William Eric Gordon (1917) The Black Watch. KIA Flanders 1917. Buried in Reninghelst Cemetery, Ypres. A shield shaped brass on a shield shaped wooden backing; around the edge of the brass is a Latin inscription and below is a tablet given the translation: 'He died before his time as a soldier for his country.' Col William Gordon (1922) The Black Watch. Brass Harry Graham Marsh (1934) Mjr Royal 19th Hussars. Latin text. White tablet on black background Edward ___ Marsh illegible brass |
| Wicken Bonhunt - St Margaret |
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J S Bradbury (1731) by H Scheemakers |
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