There
are a reasonable number of memorial plaques inside on the walls of
St Mary the Virgin. This one, for James Stevens, reads as follows:
To
the glory of God and in honour of
James Stevens
2nd Lieut 5th Batt
Oxfordshire &
Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
who fell in action in the
Battle of Arras
Easter Monday
April 9 1917
Aged 20 years
I
have fought a good fight
I have finished my course
I have kept the faith
He
rests in the
British Cemetery
at Neuville Vitasse
Another
earlier plaque for Richard and Sarah Smallbones has this inscription:
The
Smallbones,
Richard died November 17 1845 aged 81 years
and his wife Sarah, born December 29 1769,
and died July 24 1827.
A
second Smallbones memorial has these words:
Mary
Ann - beloved and only daughter of
Richard Smallbones of Hordley
and Sarah his wife
Born April 19 1806, died Jun 26 1820
Also of Richard, second and amiable son
of the above R. & S. Smallbones
who died August 27 1824, in his 18th year
And
a memorial for a rector of Stonesfield, reads thus:
Rev.
John Gregory,
late of Hordley,
Rector of Stonesfield
who died 15th April 1806,
Aetat 39.
