Memorial window to Sarah, Baroness Braye (d.1862) in St Nicholas' church, South Kilworth.
A complex coat of arms in stained glass -
"West Window Nave
At the top are six small foliate areas with central medallions, four containing the letters ”BB”, the first B being reversed. This monogram presumably relates to Sarah, Baroness Braye; each monogram being surmounted by a Baron’s coronet, and surrounded with falcon’s talons. The two remaining areas are similar with central medallions; that to the left carries a hemp bruiser (or “brayer”, a pictorial pun on the family name) with a curious handle on the slightly raised lid and a lion couchant painted on the side, whilst the one to the right depicts a Judas tree. Below are three large panels. Reading from top to bottom, the left panel contains a small medallion enclosing a cherub with blue wings above a seated Resurrection angel with red wings, beneath which is the Virgin Mary robed in blue and standing at the foot of a coffin. At the top of the central panel, facing forwards stands the resurrected Christ. Beneath him lies the central part of the coffin with Mary Magdalene kneeling, dressed in red. The right panel contains another cherub in a medallion, this time in brown with red wings, above a second seated resurrection angel with blue wings. Below at the head of the coffin stands St. John. Immediately below is the inscription “He is risen He is not here Behold the place where they laid him” At the bottom of the window on the left are the Baroness Braye’s arms and on the right those of her daughter, the Countess Beauchamp. In the centre is the figure of the Baroness at a Prie Dieu reading. A scroll is inscribed with the words “I know that my redeemer liveth”. At the base of the window is written “In loving memory of Sarah Baroness Braye Obit Feb:21:1862. This window is offered by her sorrowful and devoted daughter Catherine Countess Beauchamp AD 1869: IESU + MERCY”. "
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"Sarah Otway-Cave, 3rd Baroness Braye (2 July 1768–21 February 1862) was an English noblewoman. The title of Baron Braye, originally created in 1529 for her ancestor Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye and abeyant since the death of the second baron in 1557, was called out of abeyance in her favor in 1839.
She was born Sarah Cave, only daughter of Sir Thomas Cave, 6th Baronet of Stanford and his wife Sarah Edwards. Her brother was Sir Thomas Cave, 7th Baronet, who died without issue in 1792. After her brother's death, she inherited the manor of Stanford, but not the baronetcy (which passed through the male line).
Otway-Cave was one of the coheirs of the barony of Braye, which had been abeyant since the death of the second Baron Braye in 1557. The second baron, who had no children, was the only son of the first baron, so the title fell into abeyance among his six sisters and their heirs. Otway-Cave was the sole heir of the second sister, Elizabeth, who had married Sir Ralph Verney of Middle Claydon.
In 1835, Otway-Cave petitioned that the title of Baron Braye be called out of abeyance in her favor. Though her claim was contested by several other potential coheirs, the case was ultimately decided in her favor several years later. In 1839, letters patent were issued by Queen Victoria ending the abeyance of the Braye peerage, at which point Otway-Cave became Baroness Braye.
Otway-Cave died in 1862 and was buried at Stanford on Avon. Her only son, Robert, had predeceased her in 1844, with no children of his own. As a result, the barony fell once again into abeyance until 1879, when it was called out of abeyance for her youngest daughter Henrietta."
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