#MonumentsMonday from St Wystan's, Repton. Alabaster memorial of a knight who may represent Sir Robert Frances of Foremark who lived locally at the end of the C14th.
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@carolineirwin3.bsky.social#MonumentsMonday from St Wystan's, Repton. Alabaster memorial of a knight who may represent Sir Robert Frances of Foremark who lived locally at the end of the C14th.
@cathylowe.bsky.social#MonumentsMonday In All Saints, North Morton, with @stroudstory.bsky.social, seen in the background.
The war memorial (a painted wooden triptych) is by Eric Gill, according to Pevsner. He stayed in the village while working on the memorial in the chapel of New College, Oxford.
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialAnother impressive tomb at St Mary the Virgin, Fawsley, commemorating several members of the Knightley family.
There’s more about my visits to this delightful little church here
@carolineirwin3.bsky.social#MonumentsMonday Chest tomb of John Harewell, died 1428, at St Peter's, Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire.
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialMemorial to, Sir Peter Carew, in Exeter Cathedral and a panel on display at Dartmouth Castle.
Kate Champernowne/Astley’s cousin was quite a character!
@antiquity.ac.ukPrague's Stalin monument was the largest in the world, built in the 1950s through forced labour #MonumentsMonday
Excavation of the labour camp hints at everyday life for those forced to construct it.
📷 Fortepan/UWM Libraries/Harrison Forman
@chartresfi.bsky.socialThe mourners at St Nicholas, Teddington, Gloucestershire always have to crawl around on their knees to avoid the low flying angels.
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@simonknott.bsky.socialSir William Bulmer, 1531 at St Hilda's, Hartlepool. He stands above fragmentary Saxon and Norman stonework unearthed when Walter Caroe extended the chancel in the 1920s. He was long thought to be one of the Brus or Bruce family, who had a mausoleum on this site. #MemorialsMonday #MonumentsMonday
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialEverytime I visit Sir John Gilbert (d 1596) and his wife Elizabeth (née Chudleigh) in Exeter Cathedral I spot different details.
This time Sir John’s sword and the scallop shell decoration caught my eye.
@stroudstory.bsky.socialA monument from a sister to a sister: Bridget Price erected this tablet in St John, #Gloucester, to her sister Dorothy, who died, aged 23, in 1693. Their father, Major Price, once a Royalist soldier, watches from the wall opposite. #MementoMoriMonday #MonumentsMonday
@morrismummer.bsky.socialThe Aldeburgh Lifeboat disaster of 1899. Seven members of the lifeboat crew lie facing the monument and the sea. #MonumentMonday #MonumentsMonday
@chartresfi.bsky.socialThe rather bonkers Babington monument of c1538 at St Winifred's, Kingston on Soar.
It's richly covered in carving including over a hundred little people cavorting with barrels. This is a pun or rebus on the family name as a tun/ton is another name for a barrel.
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@carolineirwin3.bsky.social#MonumentsMonday Monument at St Mary, Bottesford, to Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland d 1563 and Countess Margaret d 1560.
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialHoly Trinity, Stratford upon Avon. The children of William Clopton (d. 1582) and his wife Anne. Three who died in infancy shown in swaddling bands. Joyce , 3 from left, married George Carew, Earl of Totnes.
