De Grey Mausoleum Explained

De Grey Mausoleum
Location:	Flitton, Bedfordshire, England
Designer:	Edward Shepherd (1739–40)
Type:	Mausoleum
Complete:	c. 1614
Dedicated To:	De Grey family
Coordinates:	52.0111°N -0.4577°W
Module:	Embed: yes Designation1: Grade I Listed Building Designation1 Number: 1113904

The de Grey Mausoleum in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, is one of the largest sepulchral chapels in the country. The mausoleum 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.^[1] The architect Edward Shepherd worked on the building during 1739–40.

It is a Grade I listed building,^[2] a scheduled monument,^[3] and is in the guardianship of English Heritage who open it to the public.^[4]

The monuments

• Henry Grey, 6th Earl of Kent and his countess Mary Cotton (1614)
• Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent (1651) and his countess Arabella (1698)
• 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 Harold (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 Kent and Marquess de Grey (1740), by Edward Shepard, effigy of the duke attributed to J. Michael Rysbrack
• Jemima Grey, Duchess of Kent, the duke's first wife (1728)
• Sophia de Grey (1748)
• Ann Sophia de Grey (1780)
• Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1790), by Thomas Banks
• Jemima Yorke, 2nd Marchioness Grey (1797)
• Amabel Hume-Campbell, 1st Countess de Grey (1833)
• Mary Robinson, Baroness Grantham (1830)
• Harry Grey, son of George, Earl of Kent (1545), a brass removed from the church

See also

• Wrest Park
• Flitton

References

• Book: Pevsner, Nikolaus . Nikolaus Pevsner . The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough. Yale University Press . New . 1 January 1968 . London . 9780300095814.
• Book: Read, Charles Philip . Charles Read (historian) . Earl de Grey . London . Willow Historical Monographs. first . 10 August 2007 . 9780955569302.

External links

• English Heritage
• Teachers' resource pack: English Heritage

Notes and References

1. Book: Page . William Henry . William Henry Page. Parishes: Flitton cum Silsoe . A History of the County of Bedford . The Victoria History of the Counties of England . University of London, Dawsons . London . 1908 . II . 325–332.
2. Web site: THE DE GREY MAUSOLEUM ADJOINING CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, Flitton and Greenfield – 1113904 Historic England . 2022-03-25 . historicengland.org.uk . en.
3. Web site: The De Grey Mausoleum, Flitton and Greenfield – 1014623 Historic England . 2022-03-25 . historicengland.org.uk . en.
4. Web site: De Grey Mausoleum, Flitton . . 19 February 2016.