The effigy of Lady Rachel Portman in Bickenhall Church 1846. Photograph by RC Sansome from a Water Colour by SG Tovey 1846.

The alabaster wall statue of Rachel Portman, who died in 1632, was placed on the south wall of Old St. Pauls Church, Bickenhall. At that time Rachel was kneeling at her prayer desk beneath a pillared canopy. When the church was demolished in 1849, the statue, minus the prayer desk and the pillared canopy, was erected in the new St Pauls Church - now Neroche Hall. When this church was declared redundant in 1970, the statue was moved to St Peters, Staple Fitzpaine where it remains today.