Churchyard of St Martin’s, Bladon
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 10:00 on 6 January 2016
The churchyard of St Martin’s, Bladon, Oxfordshire, contains the last resting place of one of the towering figures of the Twentieth Century, a scion of the Marlborough family of neighbouring Blenheim Palace.
Winston Spencer Churchill:-
And of his wife Clemmy:-
Just opposite the grave is this homage to Churchill from the Danish Resistance:-
In the vestibule of St Martin’s is this memorial plaque to Churchill, which also commemorates the peal of bells rung in his memory after the interment:-
Also in the churchyard is a war grave, that of Private J Shayler, Pioneer Corps, 1/5/1944, aged 55:-
Tags: Bladon, Blenheim Palace, Clementine Churchill, Marlborough, St Martin's, Winston Churchill, Winston Spencer Churchill
Jigsaw time | Pining for the West
6 January 2016 at 23:22
[…] On a completely different subject – we haven’t been anywhere interesting over the last couple of months, mainly because it has hardly stopped raining. But Jack has done a post on Bladon which we visited during the summer. If you want to see what Churchill’s resting place looks like, you can see it here. […]