St Vigor's with All Saints, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire
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There were two churches within the same graveyard, St. Vigor's and All Saints. The latter church was ruined in 1766 when its tower and bells collapsed and it was later demolished and its materials sold.
The south transept contains a large chest tomb, which rests on the original altar step. On top of the tomb are life-size relief carvings of a man and woman in Tudor dress. There is no script to identify the figures. However there are grounds for suggesting they depict Edward Wood and his wife Elizabeth. Edward was a substantial landowner (and a Lord of the Manor) in Fulbourn who died in 1599. His wife died almost 9 years later in 1608.
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