St Stephen, Bures
In the 1930s, the Badcock and Probert families who owned it restored the eastern part of the building as a chapel, and it provided a home for some of the tombs of the De Veres, the Earls of Oxford, which had previously been at Colne Priory, just over the border. The De Veres were the great family of this border region, their star and boar decorating such great churches as those of Dedham, East Bergholt, Castle Hedingham and Lavenham among others, including Earls Colne itself. They inherited Colne Priory at the Dissolution, and used the chapel there as their mausoleum until the early 18th Century. The three tombs here are amalgams of perhaps eight that were at Earls Colne. Simon Jenkins thought that the tombs were good enough for him to include this chapel in his book England's Thousand Best Churches, and there is certainly a drama about finding them here in this lonely spot.

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Tomb of Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford KG.
Born c1385, acceded 1406, died 1417.
Lays with his second wife Alice Sergeaux, m1406, d 1452.
Richard was at the siege of Harfluer and was the joint commander of the central block under Henry 5th at Agincourt

St Stephen's Chapel, Bures, Suffolk
Tomb of Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford, d.1412, and Lady Alice, Alabaster. Formerly Earls Colne Priory, Essex, removed to Parish church after dissolution; reassembled in Priory in 1825, here 1935

The effigies, all exceptional work, are those of the fifth, eighth and 11th Earls of Oxford, ancestors of the De Vere (the 13th earl) who was co-benefactor of Lavenham at its grandiose 16th century rebuilding. Here, all lying in prayer and in the finest armour of their respective times, are Robert de Vere, master chamberlain of England (died 1296), Thomas de Vere (d 1371), and Richard de Vere (d 1412) with his wife, the Countess Alice.

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Richard de Vere 9th Earl of Oxford
1420
St Stephen's Church, Bures, Essex, England

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Chapel of St. Stephen and St. Edmund, Bures, Suffolk
The chapel contains the effigies of the 5th, 8th and 11th Earls of Oxford, tombs that were originally at Earls Colne Priory and moved to St. Andrew's Church, Earls Colne after the dissolution of the Monastery in 1536. Subsequently they were moved again during the 19th century re-ordering when they were displaced before finally finding their final resting place at St. Stephen's.

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15 Aug 1385 - 15 Feb 1417 (aged 31)
CENOTAPH - Chapel of St. Stephen
Bures St Mary, Babergh District, Suffolk, England

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arms of de Vere

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Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford KG (15 August 1385 – 15 February 1417) was the son and heir of Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford. He took part in the trial of Richard, Earl of Cambridge and Lord Scrope for their part in the Southampton Plot, and was one of the commanders at Agincourt in 1415.

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The de Veres, Earls of Oxford, had chosen Earls Colne Priory as their place of burial and at the Reformation there were said to be twenty-two tombs in this church. The priory was abandoned during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1570 and the buildings left to decay. However before these events three of the monuments had been moved into the parish church of Earls Colne. The 17th Earl sold off much of his inheritance - including the Priory - to his stewards, the Harlackendens, in 1583 and 1592.
In 1629 the antiquarian Robert Cotton and Richard Harlakenden planned to move and preserve the ten surviving effigies and slabs still remaining on the site of the Priory Church; this plan, unfortunately, came to nothing and they were broken up for building material by Harlackenden's descendent, John Wales, for his house now known as Earls Colne Priory.