De Grey Mausoleum

Historic site in Bedfordshire, England

52°00′40″N 0°27′28″W / 52.01106°N 0.45769°W / 52.01106; -0.45769LocationFlitton, Bedfordshire, EnglandDesignerEdward Shepherd (1739–40)TypeMausoleumCompletion datec. 1614Dedicated toDe Grey family

Listed Building – Grade I

Designated23 January 1961 (1961-01-23)Reference no.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

References

^ Page, William Henry, ed. (1908). "Parishes: Flitton cum Silsoe". A History of the County of Bedford. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol. II. London: University of London, Dawsons. pp. 325–332.
^ "THE DE GREY MAUSOLEUM ADJOINING CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, Flitton and Greenfield – 1113904 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
^ "The De Grey Mausoleum, Flitton and Greenfield – 1014623 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
^ "De Grey Mausoleum, Flitton". English Heritage. Retrieved 19 February 2016.

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