Castle Frome Herefordshire
Small 9 inch high stone carving of a knight holding a heart on a window ledge in the chancel, indicating a heart burial nearby - possibly Adam de Lacy (d.1297) whose family built the earlier church & castle, and had held the manor here after it was inherited by Walter de Lacy d1085 and passed to his heir Roger de Lacy
Adam was the son of Gilbert de Lacy 1249 & wife Agnes
Children
1. John de Lacy b. 1276 father of Joan de Lacy wife of Richard Clodeshall
2. Alice de Lacy m Sir William Devereux, son of Sir John Devereux and Constance Burnell
(The manor passed to Sir William Devereux 1314 & wife Elizabeth Clodeshall great grand children of Adam de Lacy from both marriages of his children and thence to the Unett family by the marriage in 1432 of John Unett with heiress Elizabeth Brace grand daughter of Sir William Devereux
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The carving was removed by thieves using a hammer & chisel between 29th April & 9th May 2012 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-18122457
www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2012/more-carvings-take...
c2014 Enquiries began when Customs and Excise tipped off the Metropolitan police that a south London man was planning to import a gorilla’s head. As a protected species, the movement of gorilla parts is tightly controlled.
Detectives knocked on his door, talked to him about the gorilla and asked him if he had anything else they ought to know about. He showed them two 15c oak church panels and an interesting heart stone, At this point, West Mercia police, which covers Herefordshire, took over and launched Operation Icarus A team of detectives began talking to the south London collector, other dealers and scouring the internet. They realised that for at least 6 - 10 years, a person – or persons – had been targeting remote, often unlocked, churches and stripping them of precious artefacts.
So far police have recovered 60 pieces.
The Castle Frome knight weighing about 200 kilos shows that planning and organisation has gone into the thefts.
The London man with a penchant for gorilla heads has been treated as a victim rather than a suspect. Others who have been found with stolen items have argued they bought them in good faith However, it is understood a middle-aged man from mid-Wales has been questioned in connection with the Icarus discoveries and has been charged
- Church of St. Michael , Castle Frome, Herefordshire
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/20/operation-icarus-...
Castle Frome Herefordshire
Small 9 inch high stone carving of a knight holding a heart on a window ledge in the chancel, indicating a heart burial nearby - possibly Adam de Lacy (d.1297) whose family built the earlier church & castle, and had held the manor here after it was inherited by Walter de Lacy d1085 and passed to his heir Roger de Lacy
Adam was the son of Gilbert de Lacy 1249 & wife Agnes
Children
1. John de Lacy b. 1276 father of Joan de Lacy wife of Richard Clodeshall
2. Alice de Lacy m Sir William Devereux, son of Sir John Devereux and Constance Burnell
(The manor passed to Sir William Devereux 1314 & wife Elizabeth Clodeshall great grand children of Adam de Lacy from both marriages of his children and thence to the Unett family by the marriage in 1432 of John Unett with heiress Elizabeth Brace grand daughter of Sir William Devereux
our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2922.h...
The carving was removed by thieves using a hammer & chisel between 29th April & 9th May 2012 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-18122457
www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2012/more-carvings-take...
c2014 Enquiries began when Customs and Excise tipped off the Metropolitan police that a south London man was planning to import a gorilla’s head. As a protected species, the movement of gorilla parts is tightly controlled.
Detectives knocked on his door, talked to him about the gorilla and asked him if he had anything else they ought to know about. He showed them two 15c oak church panels and an interesting heart stone, At this point, West Mercia police, which covers Herefordshire, took over and launched Operation Icarus A team of detectives began talking to the south London collector, other dealers and scouring the internet. They realised that for at least 6 - 10 years, a person – or persons – had been targeting remote, often unlocked, churches and stripping them of precious artefacts.
So far police have recovered 60 pieces.
The Castle Frome knight weighing about 200 kilos shows that planning and organisation has gone into the thefts.
The London man with a penchant for gorilla heads has been treated as a victim rather than a suspect. Others who have been found with stolen items have argued they bought them in good faith However, it is understood a middle-aged man from mid-Wales has been questioned in connection with the Icarus discoveries and has been charged
- Church of St. Michael , Castle Frome, Herefordshire
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/20/operation-icarus-...