Bisham - Church of All Saints

The late 16th century Hoby Chapel has six heraldic lights of 1609, and outstanding coloured monuments, including recumbent, armoured, alabaster figures of Sir Philip and Sir Thomas Hoby, Elizabethan diplomats. To the right of Thomas Hoby's wife kneels in widow's weeds, three daughters who predeceased her behind an infant lying at her knees. She is said to have beaten another infant to death for blotting his copy books and she haunts the abbey nearby, trying to wash her hands clean like Lady Macbeth. Most interesting is the Margaret Hoby monument with swans poised for flight at the base of an obelisk, surmounted by a heart.