The Journal Journal vol XL
- 40
- 2026

The background to a medieval military effigy, the development of the fashion for kneeling figures on tomb chests, polychrome on a royal effigy, some gruesome charnel carvings, detailed study of some Baroque monuments, the chequered history of a politician’s monument, and a wide range of book reviews.
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NIGEL TRINGHAM
The monument of Ralph, Lord Basset (d. 1390), formerly in Lichfield Cathedral 9-25
MADELEINE GRAY
Kneeling weepers on medieval tomb chests and monumental brasses 26-50
CHRISTINE BUCKLEY with ANN J. ADAMS
The effigy of King John (d. 1216), Worcester Cathedral: evidence for its polychromy 51-97
ROGER BOWDLER
‘A Golgotha of Skulls and Bones’: charnel monuments of the Caroline period 98-131
ELISE PHILIPPE
Documenting the Mérode-d’Allamont commemorative monument: new archival and typological perspectives 132-164
ANNA FAIRLEY NIELSSON
The Huskisson Monument, Liverpool: The biography of a nineteenth-century memorial 165-181
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