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Church architecture. Monuments. Fonts. Stained glass. If you want to know what churches are open for visitors during the day then get my Keyholder app.

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References Keyser, C. E. "On the Panel Painting of the Doom discovered in 1892, in Wenhaston Church, Suffolk" in Archaeologia, Volume LIV (London, 1895). pp 119-130.
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To the right, St Michael weighs souls while a black devil tries to tip the scales, and the Mouth of Hell swallows the damned with gleeful ferocity: a red devil carries a woman off upside down on his back; another hauls a second in by her leg.
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Saved by the Rain One of the most remarkable medieval Doom paintings in England survives at St Peter, Wenhaston (Suffolk). It is painted on boards and dates from c.1480. Originally set beneath the chancel arch, it was whitewashed over at the Reformation and forgotten.
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Nichols, J. The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester Volume III Part I (London, 1800). Plate V p. 29, p. 32. Williamson, E., and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England. Leicestershire and Rutland. (Harmondsworth, 1998). p. 86.
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... King, P. 'Memorials of Ralph Woodford (d.1498) Ashby Folville, Leicestershire: the death of the author?' in Recording Lives in England in the Later Middle Ages. Proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium Harlaxton Medieval Studies Volume XVII (Donnington, 2008). pp.182-88
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The Faceless Man A haunting c.1485 monument survives at St Mary, Ashby Folville, Leicestershire; an alabaster incised slab beneath a stone back-plate, commemorating Ralph Wodford (d.1498).
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... Weyman, H. T., 'Shropshire Members of Parliament' in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 4th Series Volume XI, Part I (1927). pp. 35-36. Will of Sir George Blount: TNA PROB 11/63/409
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... Phillimore, W. P. W. (ed.), The Visitation of Worcestershire Made in the Year 1569 (London, 1888). p. 19. ...
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References Bayliss, J. Email correspondence. 2021/04/29. History of Parliament: BLOUNT, Sir George (1513-81), of Kinlet, Salop and Knightley, Staffs. Norcliffe, C. B. (ed.), The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564, Part I (London, 1881). p. 311. ...
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He had a fractious later life: separating from Constance, disinheriting his daughter Dorothy, and leaving his estate to a nephew instead. Dorothy contested the will and lost. Monument number 65 in my book "Country Church Monuments". amzn.eu/d/06XORTIQ
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The tomb is attributed to Robert Coxe, master mason of Kenilworth Castle. George's rise owed much to Tudor court favour - his sister Elizabeth was one of Henry VIII's mistresses - and he served under two kings.
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