St Mary's Church, Ilminster
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The Church of St Mary in Ilminster, Somerset, England, dates from the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
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Dorothy Wadham
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Dorothy Wadham was an English landowner and the founder of Wadham College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. Wadham was the first woman who was not a member of the r
St Mary's Church, Ilminster
…Among the principal features are the Wadham tombs; those of Sir William Wadham of Merryfield and Edge and of his mother, dated 1452, and Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham, 1609 and 1618, co-founders of Wadham College, Oxford. The tower, which was built in the first quarter of the 16th century, rises two storeys above the…
1595 portrait of Wadham aged 60
Portrait of Dorothy Wadham, aged 77 in 1611, with arms of Wadham impaling Petre. By an unknown artist, collection of Wadham College, Oxford
Undated portrait of Dorothy Wadham, with arms of Wadham impaling Petre. By Wilhelm Sonmans (d.1708), painted after her death, apparently a late copy. Collection of Wadham College, Oxford
Dorothy Petre (d.1618), wife of Nicholas Wadham. Detail from her monumental brass in St Mary's Church, Ilminster. Almost identical to the brass to her sister-in-law Florence Wadham (1538–1597), wife of John Wyndham (d.1572) of Orchard Wyndham, in St Decuman's Church, Watchet, Somerset