Title:

Earl

First Name:

Richard

Last Name:

Neville

Memorial Type:

Memorial - extant tomb effigy

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

Contemporary (pre-1500)

Inscription:

No inscription except modern framed information board

Allegiance:

Yorkist

Condition:

Poor

Condition Description:

This effigy is in a very poor, incomplete condition- head has been defaced and hands largely removed and it is missing most of its legs and sword. It was intentionally damaged during the dissolution of the monasteries/ Reformation at Bisham Abbey and dragged by horse ( with another incomplete effigy of that of a woman) to Burghfield. Other Neville effigies at Bisham Abbey were completely destroyed.

Memorial Notes:

Richard Neville, the ‘Kingmaker’, Earl of Warwick originally moved his father’s remains from Pontefract to Bisham Abbey where an elaborate tomb was created.
Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury was a prominent Yorkist who fought at first battle of St Albans 1455, rout of Ludford Bridge 1459, battle of Blore Heath1459 and battle of Wakefield 1460 where he was captured and subsequently executed.