OXFORDSHIRE

Adderbury  Asthall  Bloxam  Brize Norton  Broughton  Brightwell Baldwin  Burford  Checkendon Cogges  Deddington  Dorchester Abbey  Ewelme  Great Haseley  Great Milton  Great Tew  Fulbrook Hampton Poyle  Lewknor Minster Lovel  North Leigh  Northmoor Nuffield 
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Adderbury - St Mary

Thomas Moore (1586) & Wife Painted wooden panel
Asthall - St Nicholas

14th C effigy of a lady, probably Lady Joan Cornwall who owned the manor the middle of that century. Heraldry in window is that of the Cornwalls
Bloxam - St Mary

Sir John Thornycroft (1725) by Andrew Carpenter (signed)

Brize Norton - St Britius

John Daubyngy (1346) Note the unusual design of this monument, the incription, the shields and the helmet. Photographs of the upper half, full length and a plan drawing.
Broughton - St Mary

Alabaster effigies on fragmentary tomb chest with lost canopy. They do not belong together: he is said to be Sir Thomas Wyke (1470): she is unknown earlier 15th century.
Brightwell Baldwin
St Batholomew

John Cottesmore (1439) & Wife
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 Burford
St John the Baptist

Above: John Spicer (1427) & Wife Left: Edward Harman (1569) & Wife. The tomb displays effigies of the children only
Right: John Osbaldeston (1624) & Wife 

 
 
Above: Lord Chief Justice Tanfield (1625) & Family. Erected by his Wife in 1628 & attrib. to Gerard Christmas. Alabaster and black marble. The recumbent effigies are of the judge and his wife. The kneeling figure is that of their grandson Lucius Cary, 2nd Lord Falkland, flanked by a demi-figure of Lady Tanfield. At the head is a kneeling figure of their daughter Elizabeth

Above: Richard Rainoldes (1528)
Right Top: John Harris (1674)
Right Bottom: Christopher Kempster (1715) Erected by his son
Left Top: Tomb Chest (c 1500) There are also two similar chests of  about the same date
Left Centre: Tomb Chest (15th Century) The bracket brass is lost. Note the angels holding shields
Left Bottom: John Hvntt of Bvrford (1605) (wall brass)

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Checkendon - St Peter & St Paul


Richard Braybrooke (1629) & Wife 

Anne Bowett (1490)

John Rede (1404) civilian under a triple canopy

Walter Beauchamp (c. 1430) shows soul borne to Heaven in a napkin by angels.

Cogges - St Mary
The Blake Monument (William (1695), Sara (1701) & Francis (1691) 3 marble busts under pediment Lady of the 13th century on tomb chest.
Deddington - St Peter & St Paul

William Byllyng (1533) & Wife
Most of the brasses - except for the inscription are lost

An Unknown Judge (14th Century)

Dorchester-on-Thames
Abbey Church of St Peter & St Paul

 

Left Top: Knight of c 1280. Said to be William de Valance 1282

Left Lower: Knight c. 1400. Alabaster. Segrave arms; said to be Hugh Segrave 1387. The tomb chest with blank shields does not belong.

Right Top: Bishop early 14th C

Right Lower: Judge John de Stonor (1354) The tomb chest displays the Stonor arms.


Ewelme - St Mary
Alice de la Pole (Chaucer), Duchess of Suffolk. (1475)  Alabaster. Inside the open arcading of the lower part of the tomb chest is a cadaver effigy, which can just be seen, and painted on the ceiling above this are the figures of St Mary Magdelene, John the Baptist and the Annunciation. Much of the colouring on the tomb chest is original and it has been shortened at the west; it is said to have originally stood in the chancel and been moved to the present position and the canopy added in the later 15th century. Alice was the grandaughter of Geoffrey Chaucer the Poet and her husband was William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, who was exiled and murdered at the beginning of the Wars of the Roses.
 
Left and above: Thomas Chaucer (1434) & Matilda (Burghersh) (1436)
Right: Thomas Palmer (1599) & Katherine
Far Right: Henry Howard (1647) by John Stone (?)

Great Haseley 
St Peter

Top Left: William Leynthall (1471)
Top: Slab with foliated cross - 13th Century.
Top Right: William Butler (1444)
Left & Right: Two 13th cnetury military effigies

Great Milton - St Mary

Slab with foliated cross, late 13th century

Robert Eggersley & Wife c 1500

Great Tew - St Michael

Slab with foliated cross, late 13th century

Mary Anne Boulton (1829) by Chantrey

Fulbrook - St James

Left: Jordan Family (1637-72) good local work
Above: 14th century tomb chest in the church yard
Right: Thorpe Family 1695/8
 Hampton Poyle
 St Mary

 Military effigy of early 14th C
Lewknor
St Margaret

Richard Paul Jodrell (1831)
Marble by P. Bazzanti of Florence 1833

Minster Lovel - St Kenelm

Alabaster tomb chest and effigy of mid 15th century. Said to be William Lovell (1455) or his son John (1465). The shields were repainted in the 19th century.
North Leigh - St Mary

 Thomas Beckingham (1431) brass
William Lenthall (1596) & Wife Of slate, stone & alabaster

 Sir William Wilcote (1410) & Wife Alabaster effigies. Tomb chest is of stone
Northmoor - St Denis

John de la Moore

Cross slab of the early 14th century

Isabella de la Moore (carved by c 1350)
Nuffield
Holy Trinity

Benert Engliss (c 1360)
City of Oxford
 
Christ Church Cathedral
 
 

Robert Burton (1639)
The inscription refers to Melancholy

Ela (1297)
Daughter of William Longspée
Fragment of coffin lid from Osney Abbey. Inscription.

Elizabeth de Montacute (1354)

William Goodwin (1620)
Note the book and funerary objects each side strung with ribbons

John Bisshop (1588-9)
brass

Sir John Nowers (?) Early 15th Century
Alabaster and wood repairs

St Frideswide's Shrine (1289)
Reconstructed 1889-91 by J Park Harrison

Shipton-under-Wychwood
St Mary

17th century Jacobean wall monument but no inscription

Sir John Read (1769)

Fragment of 14th century effigy

Sir John Read (1773)

Spelbury
 All Saints

Robert Lee, 4th Earl of Litchfield (1776)

 Helen Matilda Story (1879)

George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Litchfield (1772) by the architect H Keene and the sculptor W Tyler.

Sir Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Litchfield
(1716)

Sir Henry Lee (1631) & Wife
Note the kneeling children at the head and feet and the infants recumbent at the side of the main effigies
Stanton Harcourt - St Michael

St Edburg Part of the shrine of between 1294-1317 removed from Bicester Priory at the Dissolution by Sir James Harcourt, Sheriff of the County. Purbeck marble canopy on stone base

Sir Robert Harcourt (1471) & Wife. Alabaster; the painting is of the 19th century.

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Lady Maud Harcourt (c. 1400), daughter of Lord Grey of Rotherfield. Painting is modern except scroll on soffit of arch.

 

Sir William Vernon Harcourt
Plaster model for statue in lobby of Houses of Parliament.

Field Marshal William, 3rd Earl Harcourt.  Plaster model for Sievier's statue of 1832   in St George's Chapel, Windsor

Sir Phillip Harcourt & Wife Alabaster & black marble. See below for close ups of the two portraits

George Simon Earl Harcourt (1809)


Sir Simon Harcourt (1547). Black marble top. This has been reduced in length.

Bishop Edward Vernon Harcourt (1847) by M Nobel 1858
  
Sir Robert Harcourt (c 1490) Grandson of the Sir Robert above. Alabaster;  the painting is of the 19th century. Alongside is a second tomb chest with indent of brass cross (14th century)
Steeple Ashton
St Peter & St Paul

 Judge Sir Francis Page (1741)
& Lady Page by Henry Scheemakers 1730
Steeple Barton
St Mary

Phillip Constable 1664
Thame - St Mary

Sir John Clerke (1539)

Merrial Coates (1644)
Swinbrook - St Mary

Far Left: Sir Edmund Fettiplace (1613) He reclines on the top tier; below are is father and grandfather.
Centre: Edmund Fettiplace (1686) and his two predecessors. Marble and alabaster by William Bird of Oxford (signed)
Above: John Croston (1470) & Three Wives Brass
Waterperry - St Mary

Centre Left: Anna Maria Rooke Greaves (1821) by Chantrey
Far Left: Unknown military effigy mid 14th C
Centre Right: Sir Francis Curson (1610) & Wife
Far Right: Walter & Isabel Curson (c 1440)
Witney - St Mary

Male Civilian & Female Effigies of 14th Century. To the right is a close up of the former.

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Wiggington - St Giles

Male Civilian Effigy of the 14th Century. He is flanked by two small figures of his children - an unusual feature.
Yarnton - St Barthomew

Sir Thomas Spencer (1684), Wife & Children. Attributed by Mrs Esdaile to John Nost. The father stands between his wife and son while their daughters sit on either side. Compare the Digby monument at Sherbourne, Dorset


With thanks to Miss Sally Badham FSA, Dr David & Mrs Jane Kelsall and Joan & Robert Tucker for providing all the photographs on this page

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