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Harefield, Middlesex, 20 March 2010

Excursion to Kent, 15 May 2010

AGM at Peterborough, 10 July 2010

Study day, Long Melford, 25 September 2010

Harefield, Middlesex

Rev Andrew Gandon welcomes the Society   to the church of St Mary the Virgin, Harefield

Edith Bowett, 1444, wife of William Neudegate, now mural beneath a later monument

John Newdegate, 1545, and his wife Anne and their thirteen children on the back wall of a Purbeck marble tomb.

Members in the chancel

John Newdegate, serjeant at law, 1528

Excursion to Kent

The south side of the Purbeck marble tomb chest for Sir John Fogge, 1499, Ashford

 

Inscription held by an angel for Sir John Fogge, 1499, on the north side of his tomb chest, Ashford

William Goldwell, Bishop Goldwell’s father, Great Chart

William Goldwell, 1485, and his wife Alice, Great Chart

Sir Thomas Roberts, 1627, and wife Frances

Thomas Robarts, 1557, and son Walter, 1580, with drawing above showing the brass when complete.

Richard Allarde, alderman of Rochester, 1593, with his threewives, Helen, Joan and Thomasin, and Joan’s three children, Biddenden

John Mayne, sheriff of Kent, 1566, and his wife Margaret, with their fourteen children, Biddenden

 

AGM at Peterborough

Members at the AGM

Indent of the brass to Abbott Godfrey de Croyland in Peterborough Cathedral

Long Melford

Rachel Canty  talking about the Clopton chantry texts

The ceiling of the Clopton chantry chapel, showing verses by John Lydgate on plaques on the cornice

An indent in the Clopton chantry chapel, probably once holding brasses showing John Clopton’s children

The brass to the recusant Roger Martin, died 1615 aged 88. He left an account of the changes to the church during his long life.

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Two members of the Clopton family in the north aisle glass

 

 

(Pictures courtesy of Sally Badham)

 

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