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Dist:0.6km<br/>The war memorial stands just outside St Bartholomew's boundary wall, and here is shown with a backdrop of the ruined Moreton Corbet Castle,
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Dist:0.7km<br/>West doorway has a pair of C19 boarded doors with strap hinges, Tudor-arch with broach-stopped chamfered reveals, carved spandrels with foliage and shields, moulded square head....("Images of England" description). There is also a benchmark, bottom left.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>The church stands beside Moreton Corbet castle, and contains many references and graves of the Corbet family.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>This monument is in the corner of the Squire's pew; it is painted grey stone with large fluted Corinthian pilasters, full-entablature with pulvinated frieze, breaking forward over columns, and open scrolled pediment with ravens over ends and central cartouche. Central moulded Gothic-arched recess with keystone and imposts and demi figure of the deceased. (from Images of England) It is a memorial to Richard Corbet, who died in 1691. There is a Latin inscription which translated reads "Here is buried Richard Corbet Esquire, born of the most ancient stock of the Corbets, was an uncomplicated man, upright and wise, a vigorous soldier; among Englishmen, of greatest integrity: the bravest of Corbets..." .
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Dist:0.7km<br/>The colourful chest tomb of Sir Robert Corbet, who died in 1513, and his wife.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>Four light window at the eastern end of the south aisle. Bottom right of the window is the tomb of Sir Robert Corbet who died in 1513 and his wife. Also prominent is a rather more modern heater!
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Dist:0.7km<br/>A moulded spherical-triangular window with cusped intersecting tracery. It was erected in memory of Augusta Rachel Corbet who died in Paris in 1838 aged 16. There are memorials to two other Corbets flanking the description - her father Andrew Vincent Corbet on the left and on the right, her brother Walter Robert Corbet, who died on his way home from the battle of Inkerman.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>"Chest tomb to Sir Richard Corbet (d.1567) and his wife; 2 x 5 bays divided by turned half-balusters; each bay with large painted shield resting on elephant or owl below; central panel with child in swaddling clothes, rose bush with lily growing out of it, and a panel below with a squirrel and foliage" (Images of England). Inscribed in Latin around the tomb - "Here are entombed the bodies of Richard Corbet, Esquire, second son of Robert Corbet of Moreton, and his wife Margaret...Richard died on the sixteenth of July 1567..."
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Dist:0.7km<br/>The north aisle of the church, decorated for Easter.
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