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Little Warley Strutt Monument

In the nave -a double marble and alabaster monument to the owner of Little Warley Manor Sir Denner Strutt (d. 1661) and his first wife Mary (Staresmore, d. 1641). Mary lies on an altar-tomb, revealed by two cherubs drawing back a canopy; on a lower stage, probably added later, Sir Denner lies in plate-armour. It is interesting to see how this monument - a significant investment of skill and resources - is now crowded out by the organ, amongst Elizabethan box-pews in what has become internally a delapidated, austere and rather shoddy church.
Little Warley Strutt Monument