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:-