De Grey Mausoleum
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, is one of the largest sepulchral chapels in the country. It is a Grade I listed building. The Mausoleum
Mausoleum
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb or the tomb may be considered to be within the...
contains over twenty monuments to the de Grey family who lived in nearby Wrest Park.
The cruciform Mausoleum has its nave set against the north side of the chancel of the adjacent church of St John the Baptist and its south transept overlaps the east end. The oldest part of Mausoleum was built circa 1614, the eastern parts were added in 1705. The architect Edward Shepherd
Edward Shepherd
Edward Shepherd was a prominent London-based English architect and developer in the Georgian period.- Architectural work :Shepherd worked on the following projects, among others:...
worked on the building during 1739–40.
It is in the guardianship of English Heritage
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and is open to the public.
The monuments
- Henry Grey, 6th Earl of KentHenry Grey, 6th Earl of KentHenry Grey, 6th Earl of Kent , was an English peer.He was a son of Henry Grey and Margaret St. John and grandson of Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent....
and his countess Mary Cotton (1614) - Henry Grey, 10th Earl of KentHenry Grey, 10th Earl of KentHenry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent , known as Lord Ruthin from 1639 to 1643, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and succeeded to the title Earl of Kent in 1643....
(1651) and his countess Arabella (1658) - Lady Elizabeth Talbot (1651)
- Lady Jane Hart (1673)
- Charles Grey (1623) and his son Henry Grey (1639), slabs
- Lady Henrietta de Grey (1703)
- Henry de Grey (1717)
- Lady Amabel de Grey (1727)
- Lady Anne de Grey (1770)
- Anthony Grey, Earl of HaroldAnthony Grey, Earl of HaroldAnthony Grey, 3rd Baron Lucas, styled Earl of Harold was a British peer and courtier.Grey was the eldest son of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent and his wife, Jemima Crew. His maternal grandparents were Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew and Anne Armyne...
(1723), by Dowyer - Thomas Philip, 2nd Earl de Grey (1859), by Matthew Noble
- Henrietta Frances, Countess de Grey (1848), by Terence Farrell
- Henry Grey, 1st Duke of KentHenry Grey, 1st Duke of KentHenry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent KG PC was a British politician and courtier.-Family:He was a son of Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent and Mary Grey, 1st Baroness Lucas of Crudwell...
and Marquess de Grey (1740), by Edward Shepard, effigy of the duke attributed to J. Michael Rysbrack - Jemima de Grey (1728)
- Sophia de Grey (1748)
- Ann Sophia de Grey (1780)
- Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of HardwickePhilip Yorke, 2nd Earl of HardwickePhilip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke FRS , and eldest son of the 1st earl, was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.In 1741 he became a fellow of the Royal Society...
(1790), by Thomas Banks - Jemima Yorke, 2nd Marchioness GreyJemima Yorke, 2nd Marchioness GreyJemima Yorke, 2nd Marchioness Grey and Countess of Hardwicke was a British peeress.She was a daughter of John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland and Lady Amabel Grey. Her maternal grandparents were Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent and Jemima Crew.On 22 May 1740, she married Hon...
(1797) - Amabel Hume-Campbell, 1st Countess de Grey (1833)
- Mary Robinson, Baroness GranthamMary Robinson, Baroness GranthamMary Jemima Robinson, Baroness Grantham was a British peeress.Born Lady Mary Jemima Yorke, she was the second daughter of Jemima Yorke, 2nd Marchioness Grey and Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke and was educated privately at the family home, Wrest Park...
(1830) - Harry Grey, son of George, Earl of Kent (1545), a brass removed from the church