Church Monuments Society

What is the Monument of the month?

This page is designed for the general reader and is intended to feature monuments of all types and all ages: those to the famous and to the unknown, those by famous sculptors and those by unknown local craftsmen, the artistically splendid and the simple but beautiful or curious. So far mostly members of the Council have contributed but contributions are welcome from everybody – members or non-members of the Society.

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Monument to George Hughes in St Edmund’s church Kingsbridge

St Edmund King and Martyr, Kingsbridge

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Lugens Mœrensque Fig 5

Lugens Mœrensque

St Marys and St Hardulph’s, Breedon on the Hill

Fig 1 General view of tomb monument to Lady Clinton

Lady Elizabeth Clinton (d. 11 September 1423)

St Mary's Church, Haversham

Maria Rebekka Schlegel 1736 Stadtmuseum Meissen Germany Fig 1

Maria Rebekka Schlegel, 1736

Stadtmuseum, Meissen

Fig 2 – Detail view of the Earls effigy showing his coronet and the mantle of the Order of the Garter

Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland, 12th Baron de Ros of Helmsley (c.1492 – 1543)

St Mary the Virgin, Bottesford

Fig 2 Close up of painted bust of Revd Theophilus Pickering

Revd Theophilus Pickering (d. 1710) and John Dryden, Poet Laureate (d. 1700)

Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Titchmarsh

Close up of the figures on the Cholmondeley Monument

Cholmondeley Monument, St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London

Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London

Thomas and Mary Acton erected 1581 Fig 1

Thomas and Mary Acton, erected 1581

St Mary's Church, Tenbury Wells

1. Floor slab of Jacopmine Huyghendochter, wife of Foert Christiaenszoon (d. 1553), Sint-Maartenskerk, Wemeldinge (Zeeland, Netherlands). Photo Chris Booms, Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE).

An unusual saint

Sint-Maartenskerk, Wemeldinge

Left for dead Major Thomas Price Fig 1

‘Left for dead’ Major Thomas Price

St John's church, Gloucester

The monument to Dr Thomas Turner died 1714 Fig 1

The monument to Dr Thomas Turner, died 1714

St Michael, Stowe-Nine-Churches

Canon Buzenski

Zacharias Johannes Szolc, 1682, and Stanisław Bużenski, 1697

Frombork Cathedral, Frombork

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Is this the tomb of Richard III’s son?

St Helen & the Holy Cross, Sheriff Hutton