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Monument in the South Transept, Hereford Cathedral. From Fisher, A. Hugh, The Cathedral Church of Hereford, London, 1898, p.37[1]: "There is an interesting altar-tomb of Sir Alexander Denton, 1576, of Hillesden, Co. Bucks, Esq., and his lady and a child in swaddling clothes, toward the south-east angle of the transept. The effigies are in alabaster, and retain considerable traces of colour. They are in full proportion, and the knight wears a double chain and holds a cross in his hands. The Dentons were ancestors of the Coke family, now Earls of Leicester. The swaddled body of the child lies to the left of its mother,[pg 052] its head resting on a little double pillow by her knee, and a part of the red cloth on which she lies wraps over the lower part of the babe. To the right of the knight, balancing the child in the composition, lie his two gauntlets or mail gloves, which have been much scratched with names. The head of the knight rests upon his helmet. Round the verge of the tomb is this inscription: "Here lieth Alexander Denton, of Hillesden, in the County of Buckingham, and Anne his wife, Dowghter and Heyr of Richard Willyson of Suggerwesh in the Countie of Hereford; which Anne deceased the 29th of October, A.D. 1566 the 18th yere of her Age, the 23rd of his Age." "But," says Browne Willis, "this was but a cenotaph, for Alexander Denton, the husband, who lived some years after, and marry'd another lady, was bury'd with her at Hillesden, Co. Bucks; where he died January the 18th, 1576."

Alexander Denton married firstly Anne Willison (1548-1566), who died aged 18, a daughter of Richard Willison (d.1575) of Sugwas near Hereford, by his wife Anne Elton of Ledbury, whose joint monument with recumbant effigies survives, mutilated, in Madley Church. Arms of Willison: A chevron between three lions rampant, as visible on the Madley Church monument and on the Denton monument in Hereford Cathedral.
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