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Abbey Dore - St Mary |
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Abbey Dore (or
Abbeydore) is the village containing the former Cistercian
abbey, of which the church and some of the monastic buildings
remain; the abbey itself is called Dore Abbey. You will find
various names on the signs along the way! Follow the signs to
the village and then those to the church. There is some
parking along this road. Then follow a footpath through a
farm yard to the church. Open from 9.00 am to 4.00 pm daily.
O/S Ref: SO 387 304 |
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Above: [1] Knight, mid 13th
century, similar to [2]
Right: [3] Small tapering slab carved on which
figure of a bishop, head on cushion, on either side of which
inscription in Lombardic capitals. Possibly the heart burial of
John le Breton,
Bishop of Hereford 1269-75. Now fixed onto
1st pillar from the east of the north arcade. |

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Above: [2] Knight, mid 13th
century. The RCHM states that the 'head is detached from body'.
The head shown here is a modern replacement which has not been
attached to the body; the sculptor's signature is rather
curiously added to the inferior surface of the neck, as may be
seen. |
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Top: Coffin
lid with cross and shield. Bottom:
13th century plain coffin
Right: [6] John Hoskins (1638)
Stone table tomb, now
used as an altar. |
Other Monuments |
[4]
Peter Smyth (1677)
date altered. Slate slab. Arms |
Not recorded |
[5] Elizabeth (Hereford)
(1693) Slate panel. Wife of Peter Smyth (above) |
Not recorded |
John James (1847); his
wife, Martha (Mayberry) (1882) |
White tablet, black backing |
Rev Josiah James MA (1860)
29 years rector |
White tablet, black base, arched |
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The RCHM also records 26 floor
slabs dating from the 17th to 18th centuries, two stone coffin
lids: one late 13th century with a foliated cross in relief and
one, also 13th century, with a small cross in a sunk circle, but
inscribed C.P 1694 and PP, 1757. |
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[1] Knight late 13th
century, cross legs, holding sword, feet on lion. Much
defaced and worn. In arched recess. |
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Timothy Geers AM (1750)
Latin text |
Rev Joseph Biddle AM (1825)
26 years vicar
His wife: Frances (Parsons) (1830) |
Olive Geers (Harvey) (1729)
Wife of Timothy, vicar. Latin
One of several tombstones brought into the church;
Others are obscured |
Now illegible |
James Gardiner (1804) |
Thomas Gardiner (1797)
And his wife: Ann (Evans)(1831) |
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Margery de la Downes (1568)
Note shrouded skeleton below kneeling figures
Painted wooden panel, now behind glass |
Francis Freeman (1739) and
his wife, Jane (1744); their son,
Francis Freeman (1740). Edward Freeman
(1806), son of the last named Francis; also his wife,
Ann (1772). Also William Freeman (1761),
son of aforementioned Francis and Jane. |
Robert Pritchard (1802) and
his wife, Ann (1787). Also their daughter,
Ann Holes (1780) |
Ann Mary Christina Skynner
(Doyge)(1770). Relict of Col Gilbert Nocholetts.
After Skinner there is some alterations ending in
Walton |
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Lancelott Sinner (1695),
John Skinner (1712)
and others later. Tablet
with shield of arms. RCHM: this is difficult to make out
now |
Other Monuments |
John Brown (1806); his wife, Jane
(1815). Also Edward Brown (1824) |
White tablet with draped urn above; all on
black base |
Anne Allcott (1798). Also
Elizabeth White (1811), granddaughter of the
previous; Also Ellizabeth Homes (1814),
daughter of the first |
Oval white tablet, long axis horizontal,
gray obelisk above with white urn. |
Mary Gardiner (1800), her
husband, John Gardiner (1820); their daughter,
Harriett (1833) |
White tablet on gray marble pedimented back;
arms in pediment. |
Mary Ann Wood (1824) |
White tablet with pediment on arched gray
backing |
Jane Dadd (Wood) (1855) |
White tablet with floral cornice on gray
marble back |
M M Wood (1836) only
initials given. Relict of Tho. Wood |
White tablet with cornice on gray back |
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RCHM records [3]
John Browne (1694)
and his daughter,
Margaret Hancocks
(1688) Inscription tablet. |
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Blanche ap Harry (Parry)
[1]
Blanche Parry
was 'Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's
most honorable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's
Jewels' (from her epitaph at St Margaret's, Westminster,
where she was buried.)According to her first will, which
was written at her dictation by Sir William Cecil (who
was her cousin) when she was seriously ill and wished to
be buried at Bacton : 'I have prepared a tomb' This was
about 1576/7. However, she did not die until 1590 and was
then buried at St Margaret's.
The tomb we see here at Bacton is therefore empty. |
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If you thought the seated figure were
an effigy of Queen Elizabeth I you would be right: this
is the earliest known representation of the Queen as an
icon, Gloriana. Blanche kneels at her right hand side,
holding an egg shaped box.
The monument is of white stone and alabaster and is not in its original position, having
been originally sited where the organ now stands.
The epitaph, on the wall behind the figures, is said to
have been written by Blanche herself. It may be read on
the photograph on the left.
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Above
left: Pte Arthur John Wheeler (1915)
KIA
The
Dardanelles aged 19.
This was a seemingly forgotten but
disastrous campaign of
Word War I. My grandfather, a conscripted private, fought in
this campaign but survived; he would never refer to his time
there.
Above centre: Thomas Davies (1812)
and his wife, Elizabeth (1829)
Above left:
Elizabeth Morgan (1812)
She was 21
Right: [2] Alexander Standtar (1630)
and his wife, Rachel (Hopton) (1663) The latter
later married Lewis Thomas on the death of her first
husband |
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Above: Cynthia Daisy Partridge (1944)
Daughter of Cptn and Mrs H. F. Partridge
First right top: Ann Ellen Richardson (1962).
Bottom: Henry Francis Partridge (1957)
Cptn 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars. And his wife,
Elsie Mary Partridge.
Second right top: William Bailey Partridge JP
(1909). Bottom: Mary Frances Elizabeth
Partridge (Hamp) (1938) Wife of the above.
Far right top: Uvedale Robert Corbet-Winder JP
(1956). Middle: William Hamp
Partridge (1914) Son of W.B. and Mrs F E Partridge.
Bottom: Captain Richard Crawshaw
Bailey Partridge MC Croix de Guerre (1918) Shropshire
Yeomanry attached to KSLI. Son of
W.B. and Mrs F E Partridge. KIA near Havrincourt Wood;
buried Beaumerz les Cambrai, France. |
Other Monuments |
Margaret Anne Davies (1861) |
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White square tablet with large white cross
above |
Frances Hamp (1849) |
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White tablet on black backing with cornice
and base. White blank shield in relief above the lettering |
Percy Richardson Davies (1944)
6th Batt Durham Light Infantry |
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White tablet |
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There are reported to be three
floor slabs (17th and 18th centuries) in the west tower |
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Bodenham - St Michael |
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[1] Early 14th C Mother and
Child Stone |
[2] John Pember BD (1677)
Prebendary of Hereford and vicar of this parish.
Stone tablet enclosing brass inscription; arms |
[S1] Lilly (1701-2) and
others later |
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Brampton Bryan- St
Barnabas |
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The church is open.
Park outside.
An unusual church in that is was built during the Commonwealth
O/S Ref: SO 370 725 |

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Above and left top:
Second half of 14th century effigy of a
lady, holding her heart.
Said to be Margaretha Brampton |
Other Monuments |
Cptn Robert John Mortimer Harley.
Coldstream Guards. KIA near Salerno, Italy 1943 |
White tablet with gray marble surround.
Military badge |
John Ralph Henry Harley (1960)
and his wife, Rachel Mary (1967) |
Similar to above but with arms |
Christopher Charles Harley JP DL
(1997) |
White marble tablet. Badge |
Robert William Daker Harley JP DL
(1907) |
Brass with raised lettering |
David Rodney Murray (1878)
52 years rector. Cpt David Mortimer Murray (1881)
64th Foot. Mortimer Evelyn Murray (1888) |
White tablet |
Lt Alexander William Murray (1857)
KIA Siege of Delhi aged 22. Adeliza Susan
Murray (1841) |
White tablet |
Gen George Staunton CB (1880)
and his wife, Henrietta Sarah (1911).
Also William Beauchamp Staunton (1899) |
White tablet |
Harriett Rogers (1834)
Widow of Charles |
White tablet with scrolled vertical borders |
Hugh Francis Hastings (1928)
16 years rector |
White tablet |
Mjr William Oliver Pritchard (1960)
and his wife, Anne (1968) |
White tablet on black base with arms |
Henry Vernon Harcourt (1853) |
White tablet |
Lady Frances Vernon Harcourt (1872)
Wife of above |
White tablet |
Alfred 6th Earl of Oxford and Earl
Mortimer (1877) |
White tablet with pediment containing arms.
Pilasters with floral decorations |
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Bredwardine - St
Andrew |
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Church open. Follow signs to Bredwardine
village and then signs to church, which is at the end of a
drive. Some limited parking outside.
S/O Ref: SO 335 445
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[2] Alabaster knight c. 1450;
perhaps a Fouleshurst
Right top right: A fragmentary 12th century coffin
lid carved with small cross carved in relief.
Right bottom:[1] Knight, late 14th century;
perhaps a Baskerville |
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Elizabeth Hodges
(Parrey) (1703) Cartouche |
William Skip (1802)
Aged 6 months
Also his mother, Sylvia Skipp (1805) |
Harriott Thomas (1778)
and her sister, Mary Thomas (1785)
Their mother, Elizabeth (1780) |
Henry Davies (1770) , his
wife, Margaret (1788), and their daughter,
Catherine (1762) |
Charles Lewis (1827) and
his wife, Sussanna (1823) |
Other Monuments |
Rev Dickinson Hand Newton
(1853) vicar; his wife, Julia (1866);
and their daughter, Georgiana Augusta (1866) |
White tablet on gray marble back |
George Jarvis.
Benefactor to three parishes. Erected in 1804 |
Gray tablet with white pediment on
pale arched back. Signed: Westmacott London |
Sgt Stanley Muston (1942)
Drowned as POW in Far Eastern Waters |
Brass |
Cptn James Utched Knox MBE.
4/11 Sikhs.
KIA Italy 1945. Also,
Lt Edward Francis Fox. 3rd Parachute Squadron,
RE. KIA Ardennes 1945 |
Brass |
John Markham Powell.
Sergt 244 Siege Batt RGA. KIA Ypes
1917. Also Thomas E. Fisbourne.
Pte 2/1 Hereford Rgt. KIA Combles, France
1916. Also Tom Gammond
Pte KSLI. Died at Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot
1915. Also Thomas Hill Pte 3rd
Worcester Regt. Missing 1918 |
Brass |
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The RCHM adds Walter (1706-7) and
his wife Elizabeth (1677) Hill
Floor slab |
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Castle Frome -
St Michael |
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Monuments |
[1] Probably to members of
the Unett family
(c.1620-40) Stone alter tomb
(reassembled) with alabaster effigies. On south,
three sons and three daughters kneeling at
central prayer desk; on the west, two sons and one
daughter kneeling. Male figure is in civlian
costume, long hair, a hand on breast; female
with stomacher and loose outer cloak. |
[2] Francis Unett
(1656) and his wife, Sara
(Nicholetts) (1659) Stone and slate
tablet with three cartouches of arms |
[3] William Unett
(1624) Three slabs of which two
inscribed and one with shield of arms. Probably
from [1] |
Eli...Lind...(1689)
Floor slab in porch. |
Left: Probably from
part of heart burial monument |
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Clehonger - All Saints |
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The church is kept lock but contact the
church and someone will willingly open it for you. Some parking
outside.
O/S Ref: SO 465 379 |
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All above: [1] Photographs
and Hollis's etchings of the knight in Clehonger Church. Said to
be
Sir Richard Large. Hollis identifies the effigy
as a knight from the Pembridge family. (1335-1340)
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[2]
Small altar tomb with
effigy of a woman with loose hair. Local tradition claims she
was the wife of Sir Ricard Large, above, and that her name
was Petronilla; she bird holding her cloak in its beak is said to
be a petrel, a rebus on her name. |
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[3] Herbert Aubrey (1671) and his wife,
Elizabeth (Bedel) (1676) Partly painted stone wall
monument |
The Brass:
Sir
John Barre and his wife, Eden (Hotoft)
(1470-1480) |
John Mathews (1826), his
wife, Elizabeth; and their son, William
Hoskyns Mathews |
Anne Green (1783) and
Elizabeth Hearn (1795) |
Other Monuments |
Frances Parry (Prosser) (183) |
Gothick |
Richard Prosser DD (1839)
Archdeacon of the diocese and Prebendary of Durham Cathedral.
Brother of the above |
As above |
Frances Theresa Parry (1870);
her sister, Anne (1879) |
White tablet with gray floral border |
Edward John Holloway (1808) |
Brass with floral patterns |
Lacy Haggitt (Parry) (1863) |
Brass with leaf pattern in white marble
frame |
Godfrey Haynes Harris (1999)
Churchwarden |
Brass on wooden back |
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There are also two coffin lids, reused as stone work |
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Clifford - St Mary |
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Priest late13th early 14th century oak.
In recess, north wall of chancel |
Other
Monuments |
Coffin lid with foliated cross with
foliated cross. Part. Late 13th-early 14th centuries. |
There are three floor slabs of the mid
17th and early 18th centuries |
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Croft - St Michael |
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Sir Richard Croft (1509)
and Dame Eleanor (Cornewall) (1520).
Stone; now in chancel but formerly in north chapel
There are recorded four floor slabs one of which is of
Sir William Croft, who was killed near Hopton Castle in
the Civil Wars. |
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