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Memorial to Sir Thomas and Anne Wroughton

The church history booklet tells the story of this monument, including the tale of how Sir Thomas came to have no hands. It was said that one day he found his wife reading the Bible, took it off her and threw it in the fire. His hands withered and dropped off. Was this a punishment, or due to him trying to retrieve it from the fire? His eight children have no hands either. The book suggests a possible reason was that the statue may have been mutilated by Cromwell's troops, but does ask why they did not inflict other damage.

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Sir Thomas Wroughton, died 1597
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Ann Wroughton - daughter and coheir of John Berwick
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Their four sons ...
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... and four daughters
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Memorial to William Wroughton

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The William Wroughton memorial is sited on the south wall of the Chancel, the archway looking through to the vestry. A wooden chest partially conceals an inscription; only the top few lines are visible, but they match the John Aubrey book: "Chancell, North wall; in freestone: 'Here lyeth Sir William Wroughton, Knight, who dyed in the 50 yeare of his age in Anno Domini 1559, and left yssewe of his body by Dame Elinor, his wife, daughter of Edward Lewknor, Esqr. four sonnes and three daughters, and builded the howse of Broadhenton, Anno Domini 1540.'"

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Etching on archway
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Lt. Col. Francis Glanville Monument

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John Aubrey in the 1660s wrote: "In the N. wall of the Chancell is a statue of alabaster, and about the niche of this monument is a tedious Latin Inscription: but this is the substance of it. "Erected to the memory of Francis Glanville, eldest sonne of the Serjeant, who was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of King Charles the First, obijt xxi day July, AEtat. 28, 1645, at the siege of Bridgwater, in Com. Somerset."
For more information about the Glanville family visit: Glanville website