14th century Cistercian monk effigy at St Edith, Orton-on- the- Hill.
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The tomb of Bishop Branscombe, (d.1280), Exeter Cathedral. The black basalt effigy dates from the time of his death and retains original paint. The ornate canopy and chest tomb were added in the 15th century.
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Surviving stone carving at the ruins of St Michael Cathedral Coventry.
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Opps!
This member of the old gang seems to have used both #MonumentMonday & #MonumentsMonday. 🤷♂️😊
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Sir David Mathew, standard bearer to Edward IV at the battle of Towton 1461. Llandaff Cathedral. #MonumentsMonday or is it #MonumentMonday (sing)?
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Tomb with effigies of Sir George Brooke, 9th Lord Cobham, and Lady Ann Bray his wife, 16th C,
Alabaster and marble tomb, with winged lion, goat, and kneeling figures.
St Mary Magdalene, Cobham, #Kent
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Exeter Cathedral. The magnificent tomb of Sir Gawen Carew, who died on 25 March 1584, aged around 80.
The inscription installed after restoration in 1857 misidentifies the other figures who lie beside and below Sir Gawen.
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The Blount Tomb
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The tomb of Sir Richard Blount and Dame Cecily nee Baker. Dame Cecily holds her hands palm to palm whilst Sir Richard holds his clasped together.
The wooden panelling splits the church from the Bardolf aisle (owned privately by the Catholic Eyston family).
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St. Margaret, Mapledurham
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Memorial which refreshingly refers to Caroline as more than just "his wife".
Eyston family graves, Lords of the Manor, on the edge of the graveyard closest to the manor house.
Sir Frank Rose baronet (d.1914) whose brothers were commemorated in glass.
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#MonumentsMonday C13 effigy said to St. Dyfrig. The recumbent Bishop looks beyond the instruments of the Passion to the image of the Risen Christ above. Llandaff Cathedral
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A frowning skull on the monument to Lady Mary Mordaunt d1705 at St Peter's, Lowick.
Doubtless annoyed at the very poor way the monument was cut to possibly move it at some point in its history.
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Inside the church at Waltham St Lawrence, monuments, memorials and all, had been swept up into the Coronation Flower Festival. #MonumentsMonday
I liked the way this rural parish church was dressing itself up in its best floral finery to mark a national occasion.
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Sir Peter Carew (d.1575), surrounded by shields in Exeter cathedral.
A colourful character involved in significant events, Peter outlived brothers Sir George, died 1545 on the Mary Rose, and Philip, died before 1535 fighting the Turks.
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Waltham St. Lawrence
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A marble urn, commemorating Katherine, d. of Sir Anthony Thomas, who died in 1658.
Susanna Frances' memorial: children dying in Calcutta, the West Indies, Jamaica, and Dublin—names that map a family’s life across the imperial world.
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Waltham St Lawrence
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A humble pew opener, a Protestant bishop imprisoned for opposing James II, a woman born in Suriname, and a soldier lost in the Peninsular War. Empire, conflict, and everyday parish life—showing how even the most local histories are bound up with the wider world.
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Waltham St. Lawrence
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A memorial to Sir Henry Neville (d.1593) with his wives Dame Elizabeth (d.1573) and Dame Frances. Now hidden away on the north wall behind a father Willis organ.
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#MonumentsMonday It's bunk beds time in Exeter cathedral, with this proudly ambitious monument of 1589.
Sir Gawen Carew & his wife Elizabeth have nabbed the top spot, while their family founder, Adam Montgomery de Carew, makes do with a truckle bed underneath.
Terrifying felines defend them. 🐈⬛
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#MonumentsMonday A classic example of 2 medieval effigy tombs that ‘speak to each other’.
The pairing of bishops' tombs in the walls of the Lady Chapel at Exeter Cathedral brings together Bishop Branscombe (d 1290) & Bishop Stafford (d 1419).
Added later, the canopies are glorious confections!
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A rather worn 14thC effigy of an unknown woman at St Peter's, Hanwell.
The foliate cross grave slab next to her is rather lovely, I'm guessing they ended up together here in a dusty corner after a period of church 'tidying'.
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Monumental brass to William Fitzralph (14th C), knight, with detail of his knight's flowered knee pads
St John the Baptist, Pebmarsh, #Essex
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St. Andrew’s, Colyton. A small effigy traditionally identified as a child, Margaret, daughter of William Courtenay and Katherine of York, d.1512, choked on a fish bone.
More likely the adult Margaret Beaufort Courtenay d.1449.
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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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Three simple skulls on the memorial to Penelope Goodenough and her children at St George's, Kelmscott.
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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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Ledger stone to Sir Edward and Lady Margery Cary (of Stantor), St John the Baptist, Marldon, Devon.
After more than 50 years of married life they died within days of each other — he on 14th June 1645 aged 80, she on the 19th, aged 85.
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#MonumentsMonday I remember visiting Exeter cathedral and a friend pointing out The Reverend Nutcombe Nutcombe's memorial to me.
As delightful on my recent visit as it was several years ago! @chartresfi.bsky.social @thehistorymouse.bsky.social
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