Guest blog post by Donna La Rue on the background of some of the women commemorated by early gravestones in this Charleston (MA) burying ground
A large carved stone shield from a memorial at Badley in Suffolk has been stolen - possibly to order.
Tombs get reused as all sorts of things - they can make spectacular altars, but they can also take the place of altars.
Were there really four Civil War soldiers buried standing upright in this Hampshire church?
Our Twitter discussion on bare-breasted angels on tombs seems worth preserving ...
Boy bishops and heart burials: a seasonal tale.
Guest post on packed full of memorials to people who, mostly in the period 1870-1918, worshipped and paid for the church.
Effigy of a young Hastings woman in Abergavenny
How far should we go in preserving old tomb carvings - and is there ever any excuse for neglect?
The Monument of the Month archive has examples of the stories people tell about tomb carvings - and there are more. But what do we do about these cherieshed local legends?
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