Upton St Peter and St Paul

Monuments and Memorials

In the Chancel

South wall, memorial tablet

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF
GUY RANSOM WARWICK, M.A., F.C.S.
1884-1959

AND

DOUGLAS VIVIAN WARWICK, MAJOR R.F.A
1890-1971
SONS OF
JOHN AND GERTRUDE WARWICK
OF UPTON HALL

To the west of this tablet is a textile painting commemorating the 750th anniversary celebrations of the Church from the year 2000 by Penny Veys, depicting scenes from the pageant and local people in character.

North wall, memorial tablet

IN

PROUD AND EVER LOVING MEMORY

-- OF –

LIEUT. JOHN CEDRIC GEOFFREY WARWICK

1/1 SOUTH NOTTS HUSSARS

AGED 23

THE DEARLY BELOVED THIRD SON OF

JOHN AND GERTRUDE WARWICK

OF UPTON HALL

WHO LOST HIS LIFE MAY 27TH 1918

IN THE GREAT WAR

“HE WHOM THIS TABLET COMMEMORATES

WAS NUMBERED AMONG THOSE WHO,

AT THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY, LEFT ALL

THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM, ENDURED HARDNESS,

FACED DANGER, AND FINALLY PASSED OUT OF

THE SIGHT OF MEN BY THE PATH OF DUTY

AND SELF-SACRIFICE, GIVING UP THEIR OWN

LIVES THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM,

LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT

THAT HIS NAME NOT BE FORGOTTEN.”

Now concealed beneath the carpet in the chancel is a medieval incised cross-slab of round leaf pattern with an eight point cross-head, dating probably from the late 13th or early 14th century. The limited distribution of six and eight point cross-heads possibly points to a local workshop, perhaps based in Mansfield.

In the North Aisle

Just to the east of the door is a plaque recording bequests and above this, another bearing the inscription:

The renovation of the Organ and the erection of the wrought iron gate at the north porch
were made possible in 1978 by a generous bequest from the late Mrs A C Froggart of Upton

No longer present in the Church

John Throsby, visiting in the 1790s, found the following memorials, which were removed during the 19th century restorations.

'Here are two old stones for the Oglethorps, one of which remembers Mr Martin Oglethorp, citizen of London, and second son of William Oglethorp of this village, gent and of Eleanor his wife who was dau. Of Wm. Oglethorp of Oglethorp in county of York, he died in 1673, aged 59.’

One of these gravestones, originally an altar slab, probably belonging to the chantry chapel, was inscribed:

Speresurgendi his jacet corpus Gul Oglethorpe Armigeri, qui pro
Rege et lege inter emptus fuit et sepultus 12 die Martii 1643

Another had the epitaph:

Deotrini et uni sacrum.
Hic jacet Hellen Oglethorpe,
filia Gulie Oglethorp de Oglethorpe in Cimutatu Eboraci,
armigeri, uxor Gulielmi Oglethorpe hoc vico armigeri.

Both of these were apparently destroyed during the restoration of the Church.

Throsby also recorded a brass dated 1460, also dedicated to the Oglethorps, inscribed:

Hic jacet Iohes ____ et Agnes Uxr. ej. qui quide Iohes obiit Die Mensu – A Dom. MCCCCLX.
At que quidem Agnes obiit – die men : A. Dom. MCCCCLX quor anabs ––––––––

Cornelius Brown, writing in 1889, mentioned also a ‘modern mural tablet’ and stated that ‘in the tower is part of a slab to a former rector, c.1486.’