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All Hallows lecture series

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The All Hallows series of FREE lectures is back.  We begin as ever on All Hallows Eve, Thursday 31 October, thereafter on Saturdays until the last lecture, a hybrid lecture in conjunction with the Mausolea and Monuments Trust on Wednesday 27 November and at a slightly later time.

Thursday 31 October, 5pm: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil ‘Yet Nothing is more certaine than death, nor more uncertaine, than the houre theirof…’: Excavations in the Chantry Chapels at St Mary’s, Kilkenny.

Saturday 16 November, 5pm: Dr Roger Bowdler ‘Ghastly Grim’: the 17th century church gateways of London

Saturday 23 November, 5pm: Dr Jean Wilson ‘Faith, Hope, Charity and the Regular Solids: Imagery and Symbolism on Church Monuments’.

The All Hallows series concludes with a joint event held with the MMT in hybrid format:

Wednesday 27 November, 6.30pm, Alexander Stoddart (The King’s Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland), ‘The Style of the Dead: Why Classicism so often gets the best Sepulchral Gigs’. Attend at The Gallery, Cowcross St, London, or online. In-person attendance entry is from 6pm (to allow for seating), online attendance is at 6.30pm. More information and booking for both in-person and online attendance via the MMT website at https://www.mmtrust.org.uk/events.php .

For details and links to book your place, go to the individual Events pages or direct to our  Eventbrite page at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/church-monuments-society-32669221889 or (for the last lecture) at https://www.mmtrust.org.uk/events.php .

Images from the Kilkenny excavation