First Name:

Inigo

Last Name:

Jones

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Plaque

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

After 1932

Inscription:

THIS GATEWAY DESIGNED BY INIGO JONES C.1632. WAS REPAIRED BY THE RT.HON. LORD WILLOUGHBY DE BROOKE 1933

Allegiance:

Neutral

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Black paint marking out lettering almost completely gone yet lettering still fully readable.

Memorial Notes:

The gate was designed by Jones, who was captured in the royalist garrison at Basing House in 1645. The gate was possibly the family entrance to the churchyard from the manor house at Chesterton owned by the Peyto's. Sir Edward Peyto was Lieutenant General of the Ordnance in the Earl of Essex's parliamentarian army from November1642 to his death at Gloucester on 21 September 1643 from typhus. His funerary monument, along with his wife's, is in St. Giles' Church, to which this gate connects. See BCW Memorials: https://www.battlefieldstrust.com/memorial/memorial.asp?MemorialID=136