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www.britainexpress.com/counties/oxfordshire/churches/bladon.htm
St Martin's church stands on a low rise above the main road running through the village of Bladon, on the southwestern edge of the Blenheim Palace estate. The church is almost entirely Victorian, though there has been a church on this site for over 800 years.
Though the interior of is very much worth a visit, it is really the Churchill connection that brings most visitors to Bladon.
The parish of Bladon contains Blenheim Palace, and generations of Spencer-Churchills are buried in St Martin's churchyard. The most famous, of course, is Sir Winston Churchill, who has been voted the Greatest Briton of all time in a public poll. Churchill could have been buried in Westminster Abbey, but he preferred the simplicity of St Martin's, near his birthplace of Blenheim Palace.
When Sir Winston died in 1965, a public service was held at St Paul's Cathedral in London, then his body was brought by train to Hanborough, and then by car to Bladon for burial. Here he was buried in a private ceremony attended only by his close family and personal friends.
Churchill's grave almost immediately became a popular place for tourists The grave suffered damage from the large number of visitors, and in 1998 his tombstone was replaced.
The new memorial was not universally admired; the Churchill Society were scathing in their attitude towards the new grave. They noted that the style of incised lettering would be almost guaranteed to collect dirt and mould. They were apparently correct, for just eight years after it was installed the new memorial had to be cleaned and restored.
The Churchill family graves are located in the lower section of the churchyard, just north of the west tower. The graves are ringed by a low iron fence, so you can't walk among them, but rather, you have to walk around the outside of the enclosure and examine the graves from a slight distance. Sir Winston Churchill's grave is at the westernmost end of the enclosure, and is quite noticeable, as it is very different in style to the other family graves.
Also within the family enclosure is a large upright cross commemorating Sir Winston's father, Lord Randolph Churchill, and the memorial to his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill. Churchill's children with his wife Clementine are buried here, as is his brother Jack and son-in-law, Christopher Soames. The 10th Duke of Marlborough is buried within the enclosure, as is his mother, Consuelo Vanderbilt.
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