The "Illingworth Mausoleum" located within Undercliffe Cemetery in Bradford, It is a Grade II listed Victorian-era funerary monument designed in an Egyptian Revival style. The structure features prominent architectural elements such as sphinxes flanking the entrance and a carved winged sun disk above the door. It was built around 1860 for the Illingworth family, who were wealthy local worsted spinners. The mausoleum was prefabricated in Scotland from grey granite before being transported to Bradford by rail, sea, and canal. Image courtesy of Alex McGregor (Geograph Project) CC BY-SA 2.0

seen in obelisks at Holbeck and Undercliffe cemeteries. Even smaller structures, like a mausoleum-like reservoir house near Hebden Bridge, echo this influence. #architecture #Egyptian

The Obelisk Lodge, also known as the Pyramid Gatehouse, at Nostell Priory near Wakefield. It was designed by renowned architect Robert Adam and built in 1776. The structure served as the principal entrance to the Nostell Priory estate. It is a Grade II* listed building Image: It was designed by renowned architect Robert Adam and built in 1776. It is a Grade II* listed building

Horus at Edfu, with papyrus-style columns and a tekhenu (obelisk-like) chimney. Grand houses embraced the style too, with pyramid gates at Castle Howard, Nostell Priory, and Wentworth Woodhouse. Egyptian motifs also shaped funerary design, reflecting ideas of eternity,

Reminder for anyone who booked for my talk on the Ramshorn Kirkyard. It is this coming Saturday 25th April at 1pm at the Mitchell. Hope to see some of you there, and come say hi 😁

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A bold visual statement in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels, Sunninghill.

Listed by Historic England who state:

Early to mid C19th, in Egyptian style. Monument to the Hon Richard Fitzpatrick.

Square stone base with round column; surmounted by capstone with elaborate anthemion finial.

Stone effigies of an armoured knight and a lady on top of a tomb in Benington church, Hertfordshire. Both figures lie on their backs facing upwards and are shown at prayer. A large candlestick is visible in the background,

Faces of power from long ago fashioned most finely from stone. Here, Sir Edward de Benstede and his wife Joan Thornbury at Benington, Herts. Edward successfully navigated the end of Richard II’s reign to serve under Henry IV. Remarkably, he was around 77 when he died - a grand age. #TombTuesday

A bright, clear photograph of a unique headstone featuring a sculpted child or angel figure leaning against a scroll. The figure holds a small bunch of purple flowers. The inscription is for Muriel M. Johnson, who died in 1919 at age 29. The stone sits on a textured base within a plot of grey gravel. The surrounding cemetery is visible under harsh midday sun, creating sharp shadows on the ground.

A Final Embrace for Muriel.

Angaston Cemetery, Angaston, South Australia.

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓖𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽.

#Cemetery #Cemetary #Cemeteries #Cementerio #Grave #Graves #Gravestone #Graveyard #Taphophile #GardensOfTheSilent #SouthAustralia #Photography #CemeteryPhotography

Remembering Mary, first wife of former carpet weaver John Wilcock, who died on this day in 1857 at the age of 48.

Stone slab inscribed with ‘A prayer for the soul of Flann’ and a Celtic cross.

Apr 20: Feast of Flann mac Maíle Dúin (†891), abbot of Iona. In early 17thC sources he was speculatively identified with the Flann commemorated #OTD. One 9thC stone from Iona reads: ‘A prayer for the soul of Flann’. Máel Brigte mac Tornáin succeeded him. 📸HES

South of nave #StMartinNorthStoke #Somerset for #MemorialMonday

Large C18 memorial tablets and some rather intrusive white electrical cable. The latter evidence of a broader #ChurchWiringNightmare

South of tower #StMartinNorthStoke #Somerset for #MemorialMonday

Fine memorial tablet, weeping woman, urn, tree (claimed as a weeping willow... it's not) and obelisk. An urn and the journal above are now lost

Nearly 80 churches and cemeteries have registered for Love your Burial Ground Week with Churches Count on Nature.

From Devon to Northumbria via East and West run nature counts trails talks and more celebrating wildlife in these special places.
#cfga #loveyourburialgroundweek #churchescountonnnature

London. Royal Artillery Memorial. 1921-25 by Charles Sargeant Jagger sculptor; Lionel Pearson architect. Photo: 17.05.2025.
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#London #memorial #WarMemorial #CharlesJagger #LionelPearson

Printed 3D copy of a tombstone to Ammonius, Centurion of the First Cohort of Spaniards who served for 27 years. The tombstone was found at Ardoch Roman Fort in Perthshire. Now part of the collections at Perth Museum. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanScotland #PerthMuseum

Decorated cist lid from Nether Largie North Cairn at Kilmartin Glen in Argyll. The cairn dates to the Bronze Age. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Kilmartin #Argyll

#BirdSky #Owl #Birds

Remembering Lance Corporal Albert Frederick Schwabe Mills
37480 10th Bn York and Lancaster Regiment who fell in action 21st April, 1917. He was 19.

Albert is commemorated at the Arras Memorial and is remembered on his mother’s headstone in Wardsend.
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The tiny church of #StMartinNorthStoke #Somerset is packed with oversized C18 memorial tablets. Quite a concentration for such a small space #MemorialMonday

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An occupational shaving mug in white glazed china painted in gold, gothic letters, G.G. Wilkie with a vine framing a picture of a coffin beneath the name. Probably a coffin maker or undertaker's mug.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Shaving mug for G.G. Wilkie, either a coffin maker or an undertaker, late 19th, early 20th c.
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Remembering former electrical engineer Harold Emmott, only child of Walter and Louisa Ann Emmott, who died on this day in 1922 at the age of 35.

Close-up of the ledger stone marking the burial place of members of the Turner and Whitaker families at Lister Lane Cemetery. The inscription reads: In memory of John Turner, of Halifax, who died 6th March 1865, aged 45 years. Also, Walter, son of the above who died 17th February 1860, aged 10 months. Also of Tom, son of the above who died 4th November 1867, aged 17 years. Also of Diana Whitaker, who died 3rd April 1869, in her 81st year. Also of Eliza Turner, who died 19th April 1869, in her 24th year.

Remembering Eliza, unmarried daughter of former carpenter John Turner and his wife Sophia (née Whitaker), who died on this day in 1869, aged 23. Eliza was employed as a carpet setter. Her death followed not long after her maternal grandmother Diana Whitaker on 3rd April 1869, aged 80.

An iron sword in an iron scabbard, bent in half and on display together with two bronze suspension loops and its last owner (below) in a museum setting

An iron sword in its iron scabbard, bent in half and buried over 2,000 years ago

Ritually 'killed' so that it could not be repaired nor used by another, this Iron Age weapon was found alongside its last owner

From North Bersted #Sussex 2008. Now in the Chichester Novium

📷 March 2026

#FindsFriday

Fragment of ancient Greek papyrus with handwritten text, featuring overlaid captions: "Hidden stories: gravedigger families from 1,800 years ago" and "Using digitised items to find hidden stories in Greek papyri.

Newly digitised Greek papyri from the Bodleian reveal the lives of ancient Egyptian gravediggers, including working as carers and taking part in legal affairs. 📜

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'Stay passenger, read; here interred doth ly
A witness 'gainst poor Scotland's perjury.
Whose head once fix'd up on the bridge-port stood
Proclaiming vengeance for his guiltless blood'

An inscription to the covenanter William Welsh, in Old St Michael's kirkyard, Dumfries. 1/2
#MemorialsMonday

Hare Court, London. Niblett Pegasus plaque. Originally on Niblett Hall, King's Bench Walk demolished 1992. Commemorates William Charles Niblett (1856-1920). Photo: 17.05.2025. #London #plaque #pegaus #WilliamNiblett

St John the Baptist Church, Middleton, Warwickshire. #monumentMonday #memorialMonday #mementomoriMonday

Archibald Campbell was the 1st Marquess of Argyll and James Graham was the 1st Marquess of Montrose. In St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.

Memorials to two men who were on opposite sides in the War of the Three Kingdoms in the 1600s. Both were caught by their enemies and executed. One is for the anti royalist Archibald Campbell (1607-1661) and the other is for the Royalist general James Graham (1612-1650).
#MemorialMonday

Loyal Albert Victor Lodge (Gayton) war memorial plaque.

Loyal Albert Victor Lodge war memorial plaque. St. Nicholas Church, Gayton, Norfolk. First World War. #LestWeForget