page_title: St Mary's Church, Bentworth
section_title: Memorials
hierarchical_section_title: St Mary's Church, Bentworth / History / Memorials
context_page_description: St Mary's Church is an Anglican church situated in the centre of the village of Bentworth, within the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. The church lies immediately east of Bentworth's primary school and north-east of the Star Inn on the main road through the village.
  Parts of the church date from the 11th century and it is a Grade II* listed building.
context_section_description: In Elizabethan times, the poet and writer George Wither (1588–1667) was born in Bentworth and baptised in St. Mary's church.
  In Victorian times, the author George Cecil Ives lived at the post-1832 Bentworth Hall with his mother Emma Gordon-Ives. A memorial to the Ives family is in the churchyard close to the school and has a stone slab for George Ives that reads "George Cecil Ives MA, Author, 1867–1950, Late of Bentworth Hall." There is also a plaque for members of the Ives family inside the church on the north wall.
  The Hankin Family Tomb in the churchyard, was Grade II listed in 2005.  It was made in 1816 of Portland stone and is a "rectangular chest tomb on a moulded base, with a two-part cover consisting of a low hipped top slab and lower moulded cornice." The panels at the sides contain various inscriptions including the one on the south panel which reads: "Sacred to the memory of John Hankin who departed this life January 12th 1816, aged 55 years", and the one on the north side which reads: "Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth, widow of John Hankin, who departed this life September 13th 1831, aged 67 years."
  The churchyard contains two registered Commonwealth war graves, a soldier of the East Surrey Regiment of World War I, and a Royal Navy officer of World War II.
caption: Ives plaque inside the church on the north wall
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