This collection of 17th century Flemish carved wooden panels form the reredos at the church of St Lawrence, Shotteswell in Warwickshire. They come from different periods in the 17th century and consequently are stylistically different.
The so-called Founders’ Window at Great Malvern Priory is one of the most important narrative glazing schemes to survive in the church. Set high in the north clerestory ⓘ of the chancel, the window is composed of four lights arranged in two registers, presenting a visual history of the foundation of the priory that combines legend, royal authority, and aristocratic patronage.
Memorial brass to Frances Benyon wife of parish minister (d1687).
Tomb of Francis Shirley of Staunton Harold (d1571), and his wife Dorothy.
Francis Tanfield was a member of a gentry family long settled at Gayton, Northamptonshire. The Tanfields held land in the county from at least the 14th century, and like many such families, maintained their position through estate management and service in local administration. Francis died in 1558, and his monument in St Mary’s Church was probably commissioned by his widow soon afterwards.
This wall memorial tablet commemorates Frederick John Salmon Bagshaw, lieutenant and adjutant of the 36th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry, who died during the opening phase of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The tablet is located at Thrapston, Northamptonshire, the parish of which his father, W. S. Bagshaw, was rector.
This wooden sculpture of the Virgin and Child, dating to the fourteenth century (most probably the mid to late 1300s, though sometimes described as early fifteenth century), is of Continental—likely French—origin.
This recumbent effigy, commemorating Fulk Woodhul, dates from the early seventeenth century and is located in the church at Thenford, Northamptonshire. The monument presents the deceased lying full-length within an arched recess, a format that continued medieval funerary traditions while adapting them to post-Reformation sensibilities.
This tomb in Worcester Cathedral is of Lord George Lyttelton (d1876) by James Forsyth.
A colossal alabaster monument almost as high as the north wall. Includes a skeletal gissant at the bottom. Built in 1598 by Richard & Gabriel Royley ⓘ of Burton-upon-Trent.
