Church Monuments Society

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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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The Thomas Farnham Monument (c.1562) at Stoughton, Leicestershire: a conundrum or two

St Mary and All Saints, Stoughton

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St Bridgets Church Llansantffraed and St Cynogs Church Dyfynnog Breconshire Fig 1

St Bridget’s Church, Llansantffraed and St Cynog’s Church, Dyfynnog Breconshire

Breconshire

St Michaels church Michaelston super Ely Fig 1

St Michael’s Church, Michaelston-Super-Ely

St Michael's Church, Cardiff

The ledger to Mary Jackson d Jan 20 1676 at Allesley Warwickshire and the grave of William Shakespeare Fig 1

The ledger to Mary Jackson (d. Jan. 20 1676) at Allesley, Warwickshire, and the grave of William Shakespeare

Allesley Church, Warwickshire

Ralph of Shrewsbury Bishop of Bath and Wells d 1363 Fig 2

Ralph of Shrewsbury, Bishop of Bath and Wells (d. 1363)

Wells Cathedral, Somerset

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The Monuments To Charles Leigh And Francis Longe

Spixworth Church, Norfolk

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The Farnham Monuments: Myths, Legends and Family Fables (Pt.2)

John Dorothy Farnham 01

The Farnham Monuments: Myths, Legends and Family Fables (Pt.1)

St Bartholomew’s, Quorn

Edward the Black Prince d 1376 canterbury cathedral kent 02

Edward, the Black Prince, d. 1376

Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury

An Effigy in the Porch of Beaumaris Church 02

An Effigy in the Porch of Beaumaris Church

Beaumaris Church, Beaumaris

Monument to William Villiers died 1643

Monument to William Villiers died 1643

Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

Coberley tombs

An unidentified female miniature effigy at St Giles’s church, Coberley (Gloucestershire)

St Giles’s church, Coberley

Llancarfan and Carisbrooke some thoughts on a seventeenth century cross slab in the Vale of Glamorgan

Llancarfan and Carisbrooke: some thoughts on a seventeenth-century cross slab in the Vale of Glamorgan

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