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Sandys Mausoleum About 75 Yards South-west Of The Church Of St Andrew

Ombersley

Worcestershire

Late C13 with c1830 alterations.

Architectural Features

Side walls are C13 and have two cusped lancets in deeply moulded reveals with a hoodmould returning to continue as a string course.

the three sedilia also have cusped pointed arches, slender colonnettes at each end with moulded capitals and bases and the central arch is supported on diminishing corbels, themselves resting upon carved human heads.

C17 oak altar table with carved baluster legs and inscription around top rail

C19 brass altar rails.

Sandys family wall memorials include at east end, to left an early C18 one with broken pediment, coat of arms on spiral columns with Corinthian capitals and an angel head corbel beneath

and on the right side a late C17 cartouche with grieving cherubs and a coat of arms above

on the north side is an early C18 memorial in form of a sarcophagus with a bust on top and coat of arms beneath, and, at the west end, is a mid-C18 memorial with a shouldered architrave, pediment containing the coat of arms and a swag beneath.

There are three late C17 ledger slabs at the east end

also a hatchment on the east and west end walls. (VCH Vol III, pt 2