WILTSHIRE

Salisbury Cathedral
Berwick St Leonard Broad Hinton Farley Fisherton Delamere Great Wishford  Ogbourne St Andrew  Ramsbury  Salisbury - St Thomas Stockton  Teffont Evias Upton Lovell  West Lavington  Wilton

Berwick St Leonard
St Leonard
Limited parking at the bottom of the lane

Right:
George Howe (1647) & Dorothy with three  children, George Grobham, John, and Margaret Grobham.

Above: This George Grobham Howe  (ob 1676) married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Harbottle Grimstone, and the above is a memorial to six of their children who died in infancy. They were survived by James, Dorothy, Anne, Elizabeth and Mary.

Broad Hinton - St Peter ad Vincula
From left to right: John & Winifred Glanville (1673) / Mrs Francis Stone (1714) / William Glanville (1730) / Col. William Glanville Alabaster possibly by William Wright of Charing Cross. A Latin inscription is written in the slate around the niche. A Royalist, he was killed in battle at Bridgewater; his own armour is displayed in the church.
There are other monuments of interest in the church including three of the sixteenth century..
Farley - All Saints
Charles Fox (1704) Elizabeth Fox (1696) Sir Stephen Fox (1716) He was the builder of the church. The inscription appears to be in old French
  Great Wishford
St Giles
Open during daylight hours; park on road
'In the vaulte heere lyeth the bodie of Sir Richard Brogham knight, who enjoyed a happie lyfe 78 years and, having been married to Margaret , the daughter of William Whitemore of London, departed this transitory lyfe the 5th daye of July 1627' Margaret was born in 1576 and married Sir Richard in 1604; she is shown in widow's weeds. She remarried John St John of Lydiard a year after the death of her first husband. She was 10 years older than her second husband,  who had many children by his first wife, Anne, who died giving birth to her 23th child. Margaret had no children and there is a second monument to her at Lydiard.
Thomas (1386) and Edith de Bonham. She is shown unusually: kneeling in minature by the side of her husband. One of their sons became rector here and one of their daughters a nun at Wilton Abbey.
Next to the tomb under a mat is a worn brass to Thomas (1473) & Edith (1469) de Bonham and their nine children. She is said to have produced seven children in one birth. A Victorian copy of the original is shown nearby
Incidently the wooden chest, partly visible in the picture, is said to be an armada chest taken from the Spanish wreck at Hurst. Probably Jacobean.
Fisherton Delamere
St Nicholas
Left: Two infant children - boy and girl - of the vicar Thomas Crockford and his wife Joan. 1622.

Tablets, all to the Davis Family

Rev Henry Davis (1807) Rector of All Cannings, Wilts. by T King Bath
Augustine William Davis (1834) son of John and Ann, below
Rev Thomas Davis BCL (1830) Prebendery of the Cathedral, Rector of St Martin, Salisbury & and Vicar here. Also his wife Anna (1826) By Osmond Sarum
John Davis (1791) & Ann (1800)
William Davis (1865)
& Susanna (1840) and their daughter Ann Susanna (1787 at 8)
John Davis (1840)
Paid for rebuilding of the church. By Osmond Sarum

Ogbourne St Andrew - St Andrew
William & Elizabeth Goddard (1695) Anne Seymore (1687)
Ramsbury - Holy Cross


Above: Sir William Jones (1682) White & gray marbles, possibly by Jasper Lathan.
Right Centre:William Jones (1775) Coloured marbles
Far Right:
Jonathon Knackstone (1745)
There are several medieval monuments in the church, mostly fragmentary
 
Salisbury - St Thomas
Above top: Christopher (1628) & Ester Eyre
All the other are of Thomas (1628) & Elizabeth (1617) Eyre
 
Stockton - St John the Baptist
Church open during daylight hours. Park on road

Above and right: Lady early 14th century, probably the foundress of a chabtry for which the aisle was built. She unusually lies on her side but rather looks like sheis still recembent but turn on he side.
   

Elizabeth Poticary (1590)  brass plate from the monument to the left.
Her epitaph is recorded below:
Jerome Poticary (1596) & Elizabeth (1590)
Heareshe enterred lyes, depriv'd of breath, whose light of vertue once on earth did shyne: who life contemn'd, ne feared gastly death, whom worlde, ne worldly cares coulde cause reprise resolv'd to dye, with hope in heaven pleaced. Her Christ to see, whome lyuing shee embraced. In prayer servuent still, in zeale most strong in death delighting God to magnifye, how long wilt thou forgett me Lord. this song, in greatest panges was her sweet harmony. Forget thee: no: he will not thee forget: in booke of lyfe for aye they name is let.
Elizabeth Poticary wife of Hierom Poticary clothier deceased at ye age of   , 9th April an dni 1590.
John (1640) & Mary Topp
Far Left: Henry Greenhill (1708) Mariner and architect of HM Dockyards, Plymouth
Above Far Left: ledger stone of the above

Above Left: Alex Topp (1710/1) A Bristol merchant
Above Right: John & Elizabeth Topp Erected1664
Above Far Right: Rev David Price (1771) white and gray marble
Other Monuments
The Biggs Family: Henry (1818), his wife Diana (1819);their grandaughter Margarette Anne (1819); Mary Anne (1838), wife of Henry Godolphin Biggs; Mjr Arthur William Biggs (1840) youngest son of Harry Biggs; Harry Biggs (1836); his wife Margarette Anne (1861); Emma Yeatman (1811) daughter of Harry Biggs; Henry Goldophin Biggs (1877) Architectural tablet
John Terry (1625)
Black tablet surmounted by winged churub's head on marble backing. '...AND NOW IN HIS RIPE AGE OF LXX Ӑ° ĎI MDCXXV, SLEEPETH HAPPILY IN THE PVBLIQVE COEMETERIE OF THIS CHVRCH TILL THE LAST TRVMPET SHALL AWAKE HIM TO A IOYFULL RESVRECTION IN CHRIST
Rev Roger Frampton MA (1854) & his wife Harriot (1872) Architectural tablet
Rev Thomas Miles MA (1863) Architectural tablet
Sisters Mary Anne (1807 at 39)  & Anna Rebecca Pinchard (1809 at 46) Two separate oval tablets on black backing

Teffont Evias - St Michael & All Angels
Church open during daylight hours. Park in lane outside
Henry Ley (1624) and his sons William (1624) and Mathew (1632) The father lies higher
Johannes Mayne (1726) Emily Harriette Fan de Salis (1896) Also her husband William Fan de Salis (1896) She may have written cookery books and he was the son of 4th Count de Salis-Soglio and a barrister. 'Here lyeth the body of Mrs Mary Phipp relict of John Phipp Minister who deceased the 9 day of April Anno Dom 1691 aged 80 John Thomas Mayne FRS (1843) Lord of the Manor and Patron of the Church Mary Anna Start (1826) She died at Teffont house age 13.
Upton Lovell  - St Augustine of Canterbury
Open during daylight hours; park at willage halls opposite
'In memory of Percy Richard Barrington Brown Rector of Ypton Lovell 1936-1948 who died the 29th day of April 1948 Unknown priest c 1460
Late 14th century knight, note the unusual feature of the closed visor. Possibly John 5th Lord Lovell 1408
Also: John Raxworthy (1776), his wife Mary (1774) and their son John (1834) and his wife Dionysia (1819). Also Thomas Raxworthy (1877) and his wife Louisa (1840) Architectural tablet
West Lavington - All Saints
Top left: Margaret Hunt (1729)
Top centre:
Thomas Hunt (1732)
Right: Henry Danvers (1654) White marble, possibly by A Storey
Wilton - St Mary & St Nicholas
Above left: Lord Herbert of Lea (1861) and right:  The Countess of Pembroke (1856), his mother; they were the founders of the church. Designed by Wyatt; carved by John Birnie Philip.



Left lower and above : William Sharp (1626) & Wife.
Left lower: Detail of monument to the 11th Earl of Pembroke (1826) By Sir Richard Westmacott Snr.

Wilton - St Mary
(Old Church)
Above: A large collection of wall monuments in the church

Left:Thomas Mell (1625) 'Once servante to The Right Honorable William, Earl of Pembrokwafterwards to Kinge James & Kinge Charles...'







 

With many thanks to photographer Amanda Miller of Amanda's Arcacia for kindly providing most of the photographs of the monuments in Salisbury Cathedral  at Wilton and several other churches Also to Dr Clive Easter of the Council of the Church Monuments Society for supplying photographs of the tablets in Salisbury and those in otherchurches above.

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