Effigy of Blanch Mortimer, Church of St Bartholomew, Much Marcle, Herefordshire

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Blanch Mortimer, wife of Sir Peter Grandison and daughter of the 1st Earl of March Sir Roger Mortimer. (). The effigy lies in a tomb against the north wall of the chancel. Simon Jenkins, in his book “England’s Thousand Best Churches” says of Blanche “with an image as lovely as any bequeathed us by a medieval church” and refers to her as Much Marcle’s ‘sleeping beauty’.

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Size: 2667px × 4000px
Location: Much Marcle, Herefordshire, UK
Photo credit: © C B Newham / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1347, 14th, beauty, blanch, century, effigy, face, herefordshire, jenkins, lady, marcle, monument, mortimer, rosary, simon, sleeping, stone, woman