| Name |
Edith Pexall (née Brocas) c1535 |
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| Date |
1535 - 1535 |
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| Gender |
Female |
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Between the chancel and chapel is an altar tomb with two carved figures (of about 1535). They are of Ralph Pexall and his wife Edith Brocas, heiress to the Brocas estate including the manor of Beaurepaire. The couple had at least one child, a son, Sir Richard. Edith died circa 1517. Ralph died about 20 years later.
Edith is dressed in clothes appropriate to the date of her husband's death rather than her own era. The Victoria County History describes Edith's clothes as follows: "The lady wears a kennel [sic] head dress and hair net; a pleated chemise over which is a double chain; her bodice is cut low; her undersleeves are pleated and over them are loose oversleeves; from her sash [sic] hangs a purse, and she has a long underskirt covering the feet and a short kirtle [sic] over, round her right wrist is wound a pair of beads" (Page, 1911, 169).
Bibliography
Anon (1993) St Andrew's Church, Sherborne St John
Burrows, M (1886), The Brocas family of Beaurepaire, 189-209
Good, M (2004) The Buildings of England Database, Oxford: Oxford University Press
National Monuments Record (English Heritage), Images of England, (http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk)
Page, W (ed) (1911) Victoria County History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, 4, 166-169
Pevsner, N & Lloyd, D (1967) The buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, London: Penguin, 501
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