Inscription, with arms, on the Winthrop Tomb, Groton, now greatly worn away by the action of the elements; L. and L. , I. 4; Muskett, 22. Robert Charles Winthrop, writing of his visit to Groton in the summer of 1847, says, “The inscription was almost illegible; but enough could be deciphered to verify an ancient copy.”

There are good views of the Winthrop Tomb, from a little distance and close at hand, in Vol. I. facing 216 and 280. The worn original inscription is on the upper surface of the tomb. The modern inscription on the south side reads: “In the adjoining Chancel was buried Adam Winthrop, Esq. who died in 1562 aged 64; Master of the Clothworkers Company of London, First Lord of this Manor and Patron of this Church after the Reformation, And in this Tomb On which the original Inscription is nearly defaced Were buried his son Adam Winthrop, Esq. who died in 1623, aged 75, Also Lord of this Manor, and Anne his wife, Parents of Governor John Winthrop of New England. Near this spot were interred others of the same family.” Within the church, in the large window of stained glass at the east end of the chancel, we read: “Deut. xxx. 16 Acts xx. 17–38 In memory of JOHN WINTHROP Lord of the manor of Groton 1618 first Governor of Massachusetts and Founder of Boston in New England 1630 from his American descendants.” The south window of the chancel is a memorial to Winthrop's first and second wives. On the south side of the church, from east to west, the three windows commemorate the families Winthrop and Forth, Winthrop and Clopton, Winthrop and Tyndal. On the west or front, the north stained glass window has the inscription “Sears and Winthrop Anno 1786”; the south window, of nineteenth-century work, “Adam Winthrop 1562.”