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.
Gilbert de Clare, 5th earl of Gloucester, and his father Richard de Clare, were among the 25 barons who pledged to enforce the provisions of the Magna Carta, as a result both were excommunicated by Pope Innocent III ⓘ.
Gilbert de Clare (d1295) was the 7th Earl of Gloucester having succeeded to the Earldom in 1262. Gilbert and his brother Thomas first supported Simon de Montfort's rebellion against Henry III, but later changed sides.
Gilbert de Clare, 8th earl of Gloucester, was a strong supporter of Edward II and fought with him at the Battle of Bannockburn on the 24th of June 1314 where he was killed aged 23. He was also one of the Lords ordainers that in 1311 ordered the expulsion of his brother-in-law Piers Gaveston who was Edward's favourite.
"Presentation in the Temple" panel originally from Saint-Denis near Paris (c1145).
