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unusual facts about St Michael and All Angels Church, Brownsover


Matthew Bloxam

Bloxam died on 24 April 1888, and was buried in the grounds of the chapel at Brownsover.


Brownsover

The church has an interesting collection of English and foreign carved woodwork, including a splendid organ case, made in 1660 for St John's College, Cambridge.

There is one armorial monumental inscription in the floor of the church, the grave of John Howkins (1579-1678), a wealthy lawyer who owned the estate of Pinchbank in South Mimms, Middlesex.

The hamlet also contains an old house which is where it is believed Lawrence Sheriff (c1510-1567), the founder of Rugby School, was born.

Christopher Luxmoore

He was then Rector of Sangre Grande, Trinidad and after that Vicar of Headingley, Leeds.

Duke of Beaufort

The principal burial place of the Dukes and Duchesses of Beaufort is St Michael and All Angels Church, Badminton.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Aston Clinton

St Michael and All Angels Church, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Brownsover

The east window contains 20th-century stained glass commemorating Lawrence Sheriff, the founder of Rugby School.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Brownsover, is a redundant Anglican church in the former village of Brownsover, which is now a suburb of the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, England.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Great Houghton

The church is dedicated to St Michael, and was originally a private chapel and was built by Sir Edward Rodes, the High Sheriff of Yorkshire, who was a conspicuous Parliamentarian.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Hughenden

When the church extension work was carried out, the floor was covered with ceramic tiles designed by Edward William Godwin and the walls decorated with 1881 wall paintings in the Aesthetic Movement style by Heaton, Butler and Bayne that depict the Nativity, the Four Evangelists and the Prophets.

According to early records, a church existed on this site in the 12th century, built by Geoffrey de Clinton between 1100 and 1135.

The memorials in the church include three recumbent effigies of knights, one lying cross-legged; although apparently in the style of the 13th century, the effigies have been ascertained to date from the 16th century and are thought to have been sculpted as fabricated evidence of the pedigree of the Wellesbourne family as descendants of Simon de Montfort.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Marden

The three chancel windows contain stained glass by Patrick Reyntiens installed in 1962.

Thomas Willement

In 1846-1847, Willement made eight stained glass windows with heraldic designs for St Michael and All Angels Church, Badminton.


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