Bell believed the head might have been hidden by the Duke's widow to prevent it from being exposed on a spike on London Bridge. Both of them had worshipped in the chapel at Holy Trinity. The church was closed in 1899 and deconsecrated, when the head found a new resting place at St Botolph's Church, Aldgate, to which Holy Trinity Parish had been annexed. The head was examined in the late 19th century by Sir George Scharf, former Keeper of the National Portrait Gallery, who noted a strong resemblance between its features and those in the portrait of the duke then in the possession of the Marquess of Salisbury at Hatfield House. However, Bell also notes a scandal at Holy Trinity in 1786 in which a sexton had been found sawing and chopping up coffins in the vaults and using the wood to stoke the fire in his quarters. Many of the bodies had been partly dismembered in the process, and Bell warned his readers that the surviving head might well have resulted from this debacle. In later years, the head was sealed in a vault in the crypt at St Botolph's, until a planned conversion of the space into an office resulted in an archaeological investigation of the site between April and July 1990. The archaeologists recovered the head from the vault and the Rector of the church buried it in the churchyard. Family tree Arms The arms of the head of the Grey family are blazoned Barry of six argent and azure in chief three torteaux gules. Notes References Robert C. Braddock, "Grey, Henry, duke of Suffolk (1517–1554)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, Eric Ives, "Lady Jane Grey, A Tudor Mystery", Wiley-Blackwell 2009, |- 1517 births 1554 deaths 301 Knights of the Bath Knights of the Garter Lord High Constables of England Lord-Lieutenants of Leicestershire People executed under the Tudors for treason against England Executed English people Prisoners in the Tower of London 16th-century English nobility Henry Henry People executed by Tudor England by decapitation People executed under Mary I of England English politicians convicted of crimes Barons Harington 4 Barons Astley (1295)