There are two altar tombs with alabaster effigies dating from the 14th century : the tombs are of a knight ( thought to be Henry of Berkhamsted, one of the Black Prince's lieutenants at the Battle of Crecy ) and his lady.
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The proposal met with generous support, and a beautiful altar tomb with recumbent effigy in alabaster from the designs of F . A . Walters, F . S . A ., has now been erected on the Gospel side of the sanctuary.
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Higham was buried in the parish church at Barrow, Suffolk, where there is an altar tomb in the chancel with effigy brasses, arms, and long eulogistic inscription, and his heraldic coat of arms is displayed in a window at Lincoln's Inn.
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Sir William lies buried with his mother in a splendid altar tomb at the Church of St Mary, Ilminster in the transept traditionally known as'the Wadham aisle', built in spectacular Perpendicular English Gothic style from the local Hamstone, of which there is every reason to believe he was the builder.
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Dame Joan, from an old Somerset and Devon family, was a sister and co-heiress of Nicholas Wadham co-founder with his wife Dorothy Wadham of Wadham College, Oxford, and is buried in a beautiful altar tomb at the entrance to Bristol Cathedral, which commemorates her and both her husbands.
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Goodrich church contains the tomb of the Countess of Salisbury, ( an altar tomb on the left side of the altar, plain with no inscription or effigy ), who was charged by Henry Bolingbroke with bringing up his son, later to become King Henry V, after the death of Mary de Bohun his first wife.
37.
By the early 13th century, the effigies were raised on tomb-style chests ( known as "'tomb chests "', "'altar tombs "'or "'table tombs "') decorated with foliage, heraldry or memorial brasses were somewhat cheaper and particularly popular with the emerging middle class.
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In 1858, the stonework was restored and the church refitted with open benches, oak pulpit, etc ., at a cost of ?, 200, raised by subscription, Henry Back, J . H . Gurney and the rector were the largest contributors, the former also restoring the belfry, recasting one bell, and the latter, restoring the south porch and the two altar tombs.
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Opposite, on the southern side, is an alabaster altar tomb by Maximilian Colt dedicated to Robert's fourth son and eventual heir, Sir Edward Carre, 1st Baronet ( d . 1618 ), which carries the effigies of Edward and one of his two wives, probably his second, Anne Dyer; according to Trollope, it was " said to have been mutilated during the Civil War ".
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In the parish church for Althorp, St Mary the Virgin in Great Brington, Sir William bequeathed the church's east window of stained glass which depicted St . John the Baptist and the Spencer coat of arms, now in a south window of the chancel, in memory of his father and a plain altar tomb with an Elizabethan tablet commemorating his life and death and that of his lady Susan, the daughter of Sir Richard Knightley.
