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--- Godson of Aunt Caroline (Lady Caroline Georgiana Eliot)
--- "Worcestershire Chronicle" 21 Feb 1866, page 4:
MADRESFIELD. NEW PARISH CHURCH. It is but a few years ago that a new and costly church was erected at Madresfield. The new building has already exhibited signs of dilapidation, the site on which it stands being damp and otherwise objectionable. A new church is to be erected, the windows and other portions of the present structure being made available in the new church. Mr Preedy is the architect. The expense will be borne by the Beauchamp family. A temporary church has been erected for the performance of Divine service while the work is going on.
--- "Birmingham Daily Gazette" 28 Oct 1867, page 6:
. . . The present Earl is rebuilding the house, but retaining the old hall, gallery, and some other features. As to the church, it was only so recently as 1852 that the old building (a late Norman and early English structure), being dilapidated, was destroyed, and a new one erected by the late Earl, from designs by Pugin the younger. This was a handsome specimen of the Decorated style, but it was doomed to a very brief existence; its site was damp and otherwise objectionable, and the building it was thought showed signs of weakness; so last year another new one, also in the Decorated style, was projected, at a distance of some two or three hundred yards from the old one, and this is so far advanced towards completion as to be shortly ready for consecration. The cost will be entirely defrayed by Earl Beauchamp. Tower and spire 126 feet high, with a peal of six bells and a set of chimes.
--- "Nottingham Evening Post" Wednesday, 25 Feb 1891, page 2 of 4:
THE LATE EARL BEAUCHAMP
The remains of Frederic Lygon, the sixth Earl Beauchamp, were yesterday committed to the family vault in Madresfield parish church. Although the members of the earl's family desired that the funeral should be as private as possible the attendance was very large. Only the near relatives of the deceased earl and a few of his private friends and neighbours were invited to take part in the ceremony. At half-past two the funeral procession formed and moved to the church, which is onley a short distance from the Court. Among those who followed the coffin were --- Viscount Elmley, Hon. E.H. Lygon, Hon. Henry Lygon, Hon. R. Lygon, Right Hon. E. Stanhope, Captain Gilmour, Earl Stanhope, Lord Newark, Hon. Henry Stanhope, Hon. Evelyn Stanhope, Earl Manvers, Hon. Philip Stanhope, Lord Raglan, Hon. Captain A. Somerset, the Earl of Coventry, Hon. G. Somerset, the Earl of Longford, the Earl of St. Germans, Colonel Eliot, Mr. G.E. Martin, Hon. Raglan Somerset, Lord Bateman, Lord Halifax, the Earl of Harrowby, and Mr. Walford, besides the tenantry and the servants of the house and estate. On behalf of her Majesty the Queen the Earl of Radnor attended. Many of the places of business were partially closed, both at Worcester and Malvern.
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