The Dunfermline dead. A cluster of 18th and 19th Century headstones in Dunfermline parish kirkyard, Fife. Meanwhile, over the wall...
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2/2 Here's the whole thing, with another angel and more skulls. A creature of the night holds the drapery of the inscription in its teeth.
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An angel with a skull and sheaves of corn on the 1686 memorial to Thomas Robertson in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. It was inside the church originally, but was removed in the major restoration of 1883.
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St. James’ Church, Normanton on Soar, Nottinghamshire. #memorialsMonday #memorialMonday #monumentMonday
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'Edward Greaves of Leigh House, Bawtry, formerly of Springfield House, Sheffield. Gentleman, died September 28th 1861 aged 55 years'
Greaves lies in an overgrown corner of Sheffield General Cemetery. A nail manufacturer and merchant, he lived at Springfield House, Glossop Road.
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John Carr, late of Dronfield, 1888, and four of his children, one of a number of 19th Century headstones laid flat in the 1970s in Sheffield General Cemetery.
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The Govan Sarcophagus, c850, recovered from the kirkyard and now in display inside Govan Old Church, Glasgow. The relief depicts a king on horseback hunting deer. It's claimed by some as the coffin of St Constantine, but the date makes this unlikely.
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'She departed this life March 13th 1845 in the 27th year of her age, ten days after the birth of an only daughter who lived twelve hours. The remains of mother and child are deposited in the vaults beneath'
Ann Crosland, 1845.
Three sad memorials at St Peter, Huddersfield. #MemorialsMonday 3/3
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'She was taken to her eternal rest at the age of XXV in the first year of her marriage and on the same day she became a mother'
Anne Theodora Brackenbury, 1840.
Three sad memorials at St Peter, Huddersfield. #MemorialsMonday 1/3
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St Michael and All Angels Church, Macclesfield, Cheshire. #monumentMonday #memorialMonday #mementomoriMonday #memorialsMonday
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Quaker headstones in Ipswich Old Cemetery. They follow the Quaker practice of not naming months and days, which was thought pagan.
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'In so long period, no doubt but you may find,
To some misconduct he might be inclin'd...'
The memorial to William Tabersham, 1771 at Helions Bumpstead, Essex.
More: www.simonknott.co.uk/essexchurche...
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Dick Dare, a name straight out of the pages of Thomas Hardy, perhaps one of the Mellstock choir in 'Under The Greenwood Tree'. A 1930s memorial for #MemorialsMonday at Steeple Bumpstead, Essex.
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3/3 An unusual memorial glass of 1683 at Clavering to William Barlee 'of the Middle Temple', aged 20, the son of Haynes, the oldest boy mourner on the memorial detail at 2/3. The Barlee memorials at Clavering are one of the most interesting collections in Essex. #MemorialsMonday
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An unusual incised memorial to William and Elizabeth Barlee, 1610/1619, and their son John and his wife Mary, 1633/1643, at Clavering, Essex. Lots of information, a reminder that these things were partly intended to establish legal entitlements and heirdom. #MonumentsMonday #MemorialsMonday
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3/3 And here is their mother, Margaret Barlee, died 1653, one of a fascinating collection of Barlee/Barley memorials at Clavering, Essex, one of the county's most interesting churches.
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Mary, Margaret, Anne and Elizabeth Barlee with their five dead sisters represented by skulls on coffins, all the daughters of Margaret Barlee, 1653, whose memorial they kneel and mourn on at Clavering, one of Essex's most interesting churches.
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2/2 A wider view of the memorial to Sir Henry Bendyshe and his son at Steeple Bumpstead, Essex. CB Newham in his 'Country Church Monuments' observes that Stayner had a large workshop and may well have been responsible for more memorials than have been identified.
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Sir Henry Bendyshe and his first and only son, also Henry, by Thomas Stayner at Steeple Bumpstead, Essex. Sir Henry died in 1717 at the age of 43. His son had died a few months earlier.
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Over 70 villagers helped build Watts Chapel, learning pottery and terracotta modeling in evening classes led by Mary Watts. They crafted many of the symbolic tiles seen on the chapel and in surrounding graves, showcasing community craftsmanship central to the Arts and Crafts ethos.
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2/2: 'In memory of the men of Claydon who died in the war of 1939-1945'
A detail of Henry Moore's Claydon war memorial, now in Barham church.
Barham: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/barham.htm
Claydon: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/claydon.htm
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The Claydon war memorial by Henry Moore, 1948, now at Barham, Suffolk, at the other end of the large joint village. Moore himself oversaw its transfer when Claydon church was closed in the 1970s. Barham church now serves both village, Claydon church is in the care of @TheCCT. #MemorialsMonday
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3/3 George Alcock, 'amateur astronomer, naturalist and teacher, presented by the British Astronomical Association in recognition of his achievements and discoveries in observational astronomy'. His 2000 memorial in Peterborough Cathedral.
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