2025
SP2717 : St Mary, Shipton under Wychwood: double decker bale tomb
taken 10 months ago, near to Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, England
This is 1 of 8 images, with title starting with St Mary, Shipton under Wychwood in this square
St Mary, Shipton under Wychwood: double decker bale tomb
The Tina Turner of bale tombs- simply the best. Upper chest with moulded ledger; lower with gadrooned ledger. Reversed diagonal cording top with shell niche ends, rose at east, skull at west. Inscriptions: UPPER Mary, wife of Robert, son of Henry Morgan (d. 3 Dec 1754) ; Robert, son of Henry and Ann Morgan (d. June 1739 aged 69) LOWER Henry Morgan Gent d. 1727 of Bruerne Grange, brother Robert (d. 1737) and his wife Mary (d. 1754) Henry, son of Henry Morgan (d. 19 Feb. aged 55) Gryphon segreant, arms of Morgan of Tregedar
Listing: NGR SP2798917991 GV II.
Listing: NGR SP2798917991 GV II.
Bale tombs
A special feature of the East Cotswolds, a bale tomb is a chest tomb with a semicircular capping stone, originally said to represent a wool bale but more likely to represent a funeral pall cloth which covered the bier. Their dates range from the early 1660s to the 1770s. Most were constructed by three families of master masons using stone quarried from Burford and the surrounding villages. There are 106 examples in 45locations
Badham, S. (2023) ‘Bale tombs in eastern Cotswolds churchyards’, Journal of the Church Monuments Society, 37(1), pp. 66–115.
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- Grid Square
- SP2717, 161 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- Basher Eyre (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Saturday, 29 March, 2025 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
SP 2799 1798 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:51.5825N 1:35.6981W - Camera Location
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OSGB36: SP 2798 1798
- View Direction
- East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
