THE NEWSLETTER

More informal than the Journal, the Church Monuments Society's Newsletter is published twice yearly and contains Society News, Reports on Events, notes of New Publications, a Calender of Church Monuments Society Events and other relevant information. There is a section of Notes & Queries and reader's letters. It also contains a series of short articles; in the latest edition these are:-

Earlier Newsletter are (and will be) listed below

Church Guidebook Competition: Award and Ceremony: Tim Sutton
REPORTS
Conservation Cases Recorder's Report - David Carrington
Welsh Monuments Symposium, 17th - 19th August 2012 - Amy Louise Harris
Excursion to Cambridgeshire, 13th October 2012 - Derrick Chivers
Report on the Churchcare Monuments Symposium - David Carrington
ARTICLES
The Corsi Collection Online - A New Website for Old Stone - Monica T Price
Who Was James Keyley - Jon Bayliss
The New Memo Database is Available - Sophie Oosterwijk
FEATURED WEBSITE
Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture  www.ascorpus.ac.uk

Recent Publications - Oliver Harris
REPORTS

Exeter Study Day, Saturday 19th May 2012 - Jane Kelsall
South Yorkshire Excursion, 23rd June 2012 - Hilary Wheeler
ARTICLES
Observations on an Alabaster Tomb at North Aston, Oxfordshire - Brian & Moira Gittos
Unusual Stone Cross from the Moscow Region - Stanislav Kompanets
Courtenay Family Monuments at Tiverton, Devon - Philip Whittemore
The Bowles Tablet at West Hanney (Oxon): Appeal for Help - Margaret Stocken (née Bowles.
A Curious Monument Formerly in the Savoy Chapel - Phillip Whittemore
 
REPORTS
Conservation Case Recorder's Report David Carrington
Day Conference on Victorian Monuments, 12th November 2011 Chridtian Steer
An Excursion into North Suffolk,  8th October 2011 Clive J Easter
ARTICLES
Fragment of a Civilain Effigy at Wroughton, Wiltson Andrew Sargent
The Moonlight Rescue of Alice, Lady Tyrell Tim Cockerill
An Emblem of Faith, Fidelity, Wealth and Good Taste Sophie Ooterwijk
The Danvers Monument at Rushbrooke, Suffolk Clive J Easter
The Greening Lamborn Trust Frank Collingwood
Fifteen Years of an Inventory of Church Monuments in England C B Newham
Recent Publications Oliver Harris (ed)
   


REPORTS
Conservation Cases Recorder's Report David Carrington
Monument Conservation: Two CMS Visits Brian & Moira Gittos
In Honour of Claude Blaire: 12th February 2011 Anne Buddle
Study Day: Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, 11th June 2011 Paul Cockerham
An Excursion to Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire, 7th May 2011 David Parrott
Monuments and Monumentality: A Stirling Conference Brian & Moira Gittos
ARTICLES
Discovery at Llanstadwell, Pembrokeshire Brian & Moira Gittos
A Leaf Found in a Forest Jerome Bertram
The Lewis Monument at Ledsham, Yorkshire C B Newnham
Three Carvers of the Parish of St Nicholas, Gloucester Joan & Robert Tucker
A Parisian Monument at Plympton, Devon Clive J Easter
Notes on Thefts from Churches  
Monuments on 'Time Team' Sally Badham & Philip Lankester
Mapping Sculpture Database - A New Research Resource Ann Compton
News of an Inventor of Church Monuments in England C B Newham
Recent Publications Oliver D Harris (ed)





REPORTS
Conservation Cases Recorder's Report David Carrington
'Making Monuments': The CMS Winchester Symposium David Carrington & Paul Wooles
An Excursion to South Cambridgeshire 9th October 2010 Hilary Wheeler
ARTICLES
Medieval Memoria Online (MeMO) - Introduction and Appeal Sophie Oosterwijk
Caen Stone Tim Palmer
A Naked Lady in Bordeaux John Linsay
A Monument at Yelvertoft (Northants) to John Dycson (d. 1479) and its Contents Sally Badham
'Tomb Monument Commemoration in Medieval Europe I: Monumental Brasses and Incised Slabs', Kalamazoo 2110 Abstracts of the second three papers from this conference are printed in the Newsletter; the titles are below:
1. The Corpus of Vernacular Inscriptions on Late Medieval Monuments David Griffith, Dept of English, Uoniversity of Birmingham
2. Commemoration and Cultural Exchange: English Patrons, French Workshops and Funerary Art in the Fifteenth Century Racel Canty, Dept of English, University of Birmingham
3. Deceptive Appearances: the Presentation of Children on Medieval Monuments Sophie Oosterwijk, School of Art History, University of StAndrews
'The Non-Professional Study of Ecclesiology': The Ecclesiological Society Yesterday & Today Trevor Cooper: Chairman of Council, the Ecclesiology Society
Tombs and Masons' Marks: Request for Information Jenny Alexander
Recent Publications  
   
   



CMS Study Day at Much Marcle, 12th June 2010
 Jane Kelsall
Excursion to Hatfield and Hertfordshire, 26th June 2010
 Andrew C Skelton
An Excursion in West Yorkshire, 31st July 2010
 David Lee
'Tomb Monument Commemoration in Medieval Europe I: Monumental Brasses and Incised Slabs', Kalamazoo 2110
Abstracts of the first three papers from this cinference are printed in the Newsletter; the titles are below: 

1. The import of choice: Fleish incised slabs in fourteenth-century Britain
 Paul Cockerham, independent scholar
2. The brass of Sir John de Creke (d. 1328/1332) and his wife Alyne at Westley Waterless, Cambridgeshire: its context and audience Robert Kinsey, University of York
3. The Canons of Saint Paul's Cathedral, London and their brasses Christian Steer, Royal Holloway, University of London
A Re-Exaination of the Serlo Monument in Gloucester Cathedral Robert and Joan Tucker
A Semi-Effigial Monument to a Lawyer at Wadworth, Yorkshire Sally Badham
Tales from Chaucer: A Literary Exhumation
 Andrew Sargent
Mind Thee to Die - Addendum Paula Frosch
Worcester Cathedral Study Day: An Appreciation David Kelsall
Visit to South Yorkshire, 18th July 2009 Tony Dodsworth
The British School of Sculpture: Rethinking Sculptural Practice c. 1650-c.1830: A Note on the York Conference David Lee
Sandstone Tony Palmer
A Military Effigy at Chilton, Buckinghamshire Mark Downing
Medieval Grave Covers in Kintyre: A Sorry Tale Andrew Sargent
Ledgerstone Survey of England & Wales Julian Litten, Chairman, LSEW
Interesting Finds at Ugborough, South Devon Clive Easter
John Gildon in Gloucester? Jean Wilson
Cast Iron Grave Markers at Stourport Mike Wall
Recent Publications  

Looking back over 30 years of the Society
 Moira and Brian Gittos
Sale of an incised effigial slab
 Paul Cockerham
Medieval monuments in churchyards
 Jerome Bertram
Yorkshire's royal monument re-visited
 Sally Badham
Richard Gough (1735-1809)
 Philip Whittemore
Some nineteenth-century monuments in St Mary's church, Whittlebury, Northamptonshire
 Bryan S H Egan