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St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury is in Hanbury, Staffordshire, Churches in Staffordshire.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Glass in south aisle and south-east window, medieval remains.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Staffrd County Musical Association Sheilds. Top awarded to Mrs Julian Whitehouse for 'the best rendering of any song'.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Font of coloured local alabaster and imported marble; square on 4 extended columns and built over the carved Norman font, still discernible within the present composition.
Brass under chancel steps at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map], Sir John Cheyne, Rector, 1363-91. Much worn figure with cassock, surplice, almace and cope.
Lower part of tower walls at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map] covered in purpose-made glazed tiles of 1883 as a family memorial.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map].
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Most of the church is a 13th Centruy of a 12th Century core.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Sir John de Hanbury died 1303, in the east of the south aisle of alabaster. A recumbent effigy clasping sword and with crossed legs and dog; possibly a later attempt by the Hanbury family to add credibility to their lineage; otherwise this would be the earliest alabaster in England
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Early medieval grave slab to unknown persons.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. The church tower from the 14th Century with clock. A niche was set in the south side first stage of 1842 containing a statue of Saint Werburgh.
Saint Werburgh: he was born to King Wulfhere of Mercia at Stone, Staffordshire [Map]. On 3rd February 700 Saint Werburgh died at Trentham, Staffordshire.
Chancel of St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Large alabaster chest tomb to Ralph Adderley and his two wives, Margaret Bagot and Felicia Milward (age 71), and his numerou children represented on the sides.
Margaret Bagot: Around 1532 she was born to Thomas Bagot. In or before 1557 Ralph Adderley and she were married. Around 1558 Margaret Bagot died.
Felicia Milward: Around 1st January 1535 she was born at Doveridge, Derbyshire. After 1558 Ralph Adderley and she were married. On 9th June 1607 she died.
On 30th April 1614 Thomas Villiers died. Memorial at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map].
In 1624 Charles Egerton of Knockfergus died. Monument in the Chancel of St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. His ancestry is talen from The visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580.
Charles Egerton of Knockfergus: he was born to John Egerton of Willoughby. In or before 1624 he was appointed Constable of Carrickfergus Castle.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Puritan busts in the Chancel to Dorothy Villiers, died 1658, and Katherine Agard, died 1620, and her daughter, Ann Woollocke, both with ruffs and steeple hats.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
1660. St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Donation to the church by various people.
In 1662 John Egerton (age 75) died. Monument at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map].
John Egerton: In 1587 he was born to Charles Egerton of Knockfergus.
Interior of St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map] looking towards the chancel. The roof constructed in 1686.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Near to this place lieth the body of George Timbrill the Edler who dyed the 3rd day of January 1703.
On 14th July 1741 Bowyer Adderley (age 36) and Lettice Adderley were married at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. They were third cousin once removed.
On 3rd November 1751 Ralph Adderley (age 76) died. Lettice Adderley inherited Coton Hall, Staffordshire [Map]. He was buried at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]
Ralph Adderley: Around 1675 he was born to Ralph Adderley.
Lettice Adderley: she was born to Ralph Adderley. On 14th July 1741 Bowyer Adderley and she were married at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury. In 1784 Lettice Adderley died. Ralph Adderley inherited Coton Hall, Staffordshire [Map].
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Grave slab of William Trevanion, Captain of the Derbyshire Militia who died at Hollybush in the parish of Hanbury 26th January 1823 aged 43.
After January 1834 George Dudley Ryder (age 23) was appointed Vicar of St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map].
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Memorials to Captain Arthur Harper who died at New Lodge, Hanbury [Map] on 1st September 1838 aged twenty-nine. And to Samuel Harper who died at Ackyab in the East Indies 19th June 1831 aged twenty-four, and to Robert John Harper who died on the March 8th, 1846.
Note. Arthur Harper was born on the 7th January 1810. He was appointed Ensign, 9th Foot on the 17th January 1828, Lieutenant, 22nd October 1830; Captain, 17th October 1837; abd retired 28th August 1838.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Monument to John Wilson, died 25th March 1839, leaving a widow and five infant daughters. Sculpted by Peter Hollins (age 38).
Memorial at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map] to John Henry Bott who, with two of his schoolfellows, was accidentally draowen while bathing at Seaforth near Liverpool on 26th August 1840, and to 2md Lieutenant Charles Edward Bott, died after an illness at Toronto, Canada, 30th January 1849. Both children of John and Susanna Maria Bott who resided at Coton Hall, Hanley. Also to their two children Frederick and Frances who died young.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Sacred to the memory of Mary, widow of Thomas Chawner, Gent, late of Denstone Hall, Staffordshire [Map], in this ccountry, who died in the Lord, Jany 14th 1842: aged 85 years.
This tablet is erected by her two surviving children, Thomas Chawner, and Mary Williams, relict of that devoted and enterprising missionary [John Williams (age 43)] to the South Sea Islands, who was massacred by the natives of Erromango whilse hazarding this life for the name of the Lord Jesus Christ Novr 20th 1839.
Note. Mary Chawner married the missionary John Williams who was killed, and reportedly eaten, by the inhabitants of the Island of Erromango in the Vanuatu archipelago.
Gifts and benefactions at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map].
In 1850 the six clerestory windows at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map] were 'restored and embellished with stained glass' by the friends of George Edward Anson.
Memorial at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map] to Susanna Maria, died 17th March 1859, aged 57, at Coton Hall, Staffordshire [Map]. Wife of John Bott, daughter of Major Arden of Longcroft Hall, Staffordshire. She is buried in the chuchyard.
Memorial at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map] to John Bott, died 21st April 1863 at Coton Hall, Staffordshire [Map].
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Chancel rebuilt late 19th Century. Various painted scenes.
The windows in the North wall at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map] 'were placed there in affectionate rememberance of Joph Richardson and Eliza Richardson by their three children Morris, Anne and John Henry in 1883'.
Porch at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Stained glass window dedicated to Saint Maria Cleophas, one of the 'three Marys'. She was present at the crucifixion at Calvary and later visited Jesus' tomb. Married to Saint Cleophas, who was Saint Joseph's brother, she was also the mother of Saint James the Less. Memorial to Maria Anson (age 39) who married Reverend Robert Digby Ram (age 44), died 1889. Posthumous daughter of George Edward Anson and Georgiana Mary Harbord (age 77). The window commissioned by Georgiana Mary Harbord and her second husband Charles Edward Boothby (age 68) as indicated by the word 'vitricus' i.e. stepfather.
Maria Anson: On 18th December 1849 she was born to George Edward Anson and Georgiana Mary Harbord two months after the death of her father George Edward Anson at Ludbury, Derbyshire. Before 17th May 1889 Reverend Robert Digby Ram and she were married. On 17th May 1889 Maria Anson died. She was buried at Teddington Cemetery on 21st May 1889.
Georgiana Mary Harbord: In or before 1812 she was born to Edward Harbord 3rd Baron Suffield and Georgiana Venables-Vernon Baroness Suffield. On 2nd October 1837 George Edward Anson and she were married. They were second cousins. On 24th October 1855 Charles Edward Boothby and she were married. They were half second cousins. On 13th November 1903 Georgiana Mary Harbord died.
Charles Edward Boothby: In 1821 he was born to Reverend Brooke Boothby and Louisa Henrietta-Venables-Vernon. In 1913 Charles Edward Boothby died.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. East and west window by Ward and Hughes of 1894 and south chancel windows.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Pulpit: in the style of Street in stone and alabaster; circular on clustered columns; trefoil-headed blind arcade on marble columns around sides.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Grave of M. E. Wells. Royal Pioneer Corps. Died 27th February 1919 aged twenty.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Memorial to Hugh Bailye, died 9th June 1933.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. In memory of Eustace Frank Feilden Brace, killed in actoin 18th May 1940, aged twenty. He was buried at the Adegem Canadian War Cemetery, Maldegem, Arrondissement Eeklo, East Flanders, Belgium. He was sent out on a reconnaissance patrol south west from Wolvendaal (Vijlst) along Nieuwelaan. The 15/19 Hussars war diaries report the intent was to establish contact with the 5th Belgium Division who were supposed to be on the northern flank of the 15th/19th Hussars. While proceeding south west on Nieuwelaan 5th Troop came into contact with a German reconnaissance group heading north in the opposite direction near the small Sint Annakapel chapel. The German reconnaissance group consisted of several Sdkfz 234 armoured cars and motorcycles with side cars. Upon coming under fire 2nd Lt Brace had turned left off Nieuwelaan on to Vollickstraat toward Meyskens Farm. Brace then turned right after passing Meyskens farm house into an orchard and adjacent field. While the German armoured cars engaged the rest of 5th Troop on Nieuwelaan a German motorcycle and side car turn on to Vollickstraat in pursuit. It entered a field just south of Myskens farm house and moved parallel to Brace's carrier. Brace then passed through the orchard and attempted to enter an open adjacent field by traversing a small ditch. He failed to negotiate the ditch and came under MG fire from the motorcycle and side car. Brace and his crew were shot up. Brace although mortally wounded managed to abandon his carrier and make his way to a nearby tree where he collapsed. The Meyskens family recalls he asked for water and was bleeding from the lower body and that blood ran down the track for some metres. The rest of 5th Troop was shot up by the German Sdkfz 232s and according to 15/19 war diaries only one wounded survivor, Corporal Payne, managed to escape and report back. The Germans then arrived with a motor bike and side car and lifted Brace onto it. The bike was maneuvered steadily across the field on to Vollickstraat and toward Sint Annakapel. Brace died on route to Sint Annakapel.
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All About History Books
The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Grave of John Albert Bott 616651, attached to RAF Hednesford, who died in a railway accident 12th November 1940.
On 27th November 1944 at eleven minutes past eleven in the morning 4,000 tons of bombs stored 30m down in the old gypsum mines at RAF Fauld, Staffordshire, blew up making a crater 125m deep, and 1.2km wide. The exact death toll is uncertain; it is believed that about 70 people died in the explosion and resulting flood. The crater is still visible just south of Fauld, to the east of Hanbury, Staffordshire. It is now known as the Hanbury Crater [Map]. It was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history and the largest on UK soil.
Memorial at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map].
War Memorials at St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map].
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. In memory of Annie Isobel Brace of Coton Hall, Staffordshire [Map], died 30th July 1957.
1986. Rectors and Vicars of St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map].
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. The tower clock was restored in October 1987. The entrance hall and suite of rooms erected in 1986, and the heating installed in 2008.
St Werburgh's Church, Hanbury [Map]. Memorial to Reverend Leslie Rees, vicar of Hanbury 30th March 2009 toio 15th June 2021.