St Mary, Ingestre, Staffordshire
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Ingestre parish church of St Mary the Virgin was built in the Grecian style in 1676 by Walter Chetwynd, Esq, at a short distance from the old one, which was taken down after the bones and memorials of the dead had been removed from it to the new edifice.
The remarkable bronze and black marble monument to Charles Chetwynd, Viscount Ingestre (1882 -1915). Viscount Chetwynd died at his London home of pneumonia after a bout of influenza. He is shown wearing the uniform of his regiment the Royal Horse Guards.
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