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Church of St. Mary, Lydiard Park
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Church of St. Mary, Lydiard Park
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Coat of Arms above chancel door, Church of St. Mary, Lydiard Park
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Church of St. Mary, Lydiard Park
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St Mary: Perpendicular church set in Lydiard Park behind the mansion; tower with pierced quatrefoils & pinnacles; embattled south aisle
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St Mary: nave looking towards early c17 Jacobean screen under Stuart royal arms; wall paintings over chancel arch & c13 north arcade; south arcade is c14 with octagonal piers
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St Mary: c13 north arcade with double chamfered arches without capitals matching the chancel arch
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St Mary: painting of Tudor busts around former rood; six civilians & two bishops in early c16 dress
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St Mary: post Reformation painted texts in black lettering
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St Mary: monument to Nicholas St John of Tregoze, d.1589 (erected 1592) & wife Elizabeth Blount of Mapledurham
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St Mary: the heraldic polyptych when closed; commissioned by John St John, first Baronet, with the aid of Richard St George, Clarenceaux king of arms (his aunt's husband)
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St Mary: panel from the polyptych mainly referring to the St John link going back to the the original Tregoze family
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St Mary: detail from the same panel; the left refers mainly to the Beauchamps
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St Mary: another panel referring to the St John's royal connection; the St Johns go back to Oliver's marriage to Margaret Beauchamp (Henry VII's grandmother)
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St Mary: detail from the same Royal link panel; the Leightons (wife of the first Baronet) go back to the Boleyns via the Carys
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St Mary: portrait panel from the heraldic polyptych showing John St John of Lydiard Tregoze, d.1594, & wife Lucy Hungerford of Farleigh
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St Mary: the six daughters of John St John of Lydiard Tregoze, d.1594; they are named as Katherine, Anne, Jane, Elinor, Barbara & Lucy
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St Mary: inscription from the polyptych with reference to John St John of Lydiard Tregoze, d.1594; the coffins relate to three dead children
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St Mary: monument to Katherine St John, d.1633, & husband (the infamous) Giles Mompesson; seated in arched niches, he holds a book, she a skull; Baroque double pediment
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St Mary: effigies of John St John of Lydiard, first baronet of Lydiard Tregoze, d.1648, & two wives Anne Leighton (right) & Margaret Whitmore (left); the monument was erected in John's lifetime in 163
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St Mary: John St John, first baronet of Lydiard Tregoze, d.1648; responsible for many of the monuments including the polyptych
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St Mary: Anne Leighton of Feckenham, d.1628, first wife of John St John, first baronet of Lydiard Tregoze, holding baby
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St Mary: Margaret Whitmore of Apley Park, second wife of John St John, first baronet of Lydiard Tregoze
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St Mary: sons at the head of the effigy of John St John, first baronet of Lydiard Tregoze; two would fight for the Royalists, two youngest ones for Parliament
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St Mary: inscription from the monument to John St John, first baronet of Lydiard Tregoze, d.1648
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St Mary: arms from the monument to John St John, first baronet of Lydiard Tregoze, d.1648; quarterings from the St John family
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St Mary: monument, known as the Golden Cavalier, to Edward St John, son of the first baronet
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St Mary: inscription at the base of the monument to Edward St John, d.1645
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St Mary: John, second Viscount St John, d.1748, & wife Anne (Furnese) d.1747
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St Mary: arms in white on a dark grey sarcophagus from the second Viscount St John memorial, 1748
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St Mary: memorial slab to William Yorke of Bassets Downe (1576-1660) & wife Anne Stampe, d.1661; arms are Yorke impaling Stampe
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St Mary: memorial to Anne, d.1663, daughter of Henry Danvers of Baynton & wife of Charles Yorke
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St Mary: memorial to William & Henry Kempe, d.1648; twins who both died young aged six