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@churchmonuments.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:34 PM

Call for papers: Online conference for postgraduate students whose research centres on or is relevant to church monuments. Come along to hear the latest work being done and to support new entrants to the field. churchmonumentssociety.org/events/stude...

Call for Papers for Student Spotlight 2027 conference. Postgraduate Students are invited to share research on any aspect of church monuments and related fields with a friendly audience in this FREE online symposium, held via Zoom on Saturday 20 March 2027, 2pm-5pm GMT. Research topics might touch on (but are not limited to): Church monuments Gravestones Monumental Brasses Shrines Commemoration Mausolea Ossuaries Vaults Coffins Church Archaeology Conservation Archival Sources Submission Guidelines: Send a 250-word abstract with your name and affiliation to churchmonuments [at] gmail [dot] com by 31 January 2027 See https://churchmonumentssociety.org/events Papers should be c.15-20 minutes in length

@parishchurches.org Oct 10, 2026, 11:43 AMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

Bookish architecture This huge monument to Sir Henry (d.1630) & Mary Yelverton is squeezed into the east end of the north aisle of Easton Maudit church (Northants). It features a superstructure made from piles of books. Two bedesmen with cushioned heads support the canopy.

@listerlanecem.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 10:43 AMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

Good morning from the Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery.

A close-up photo featuring a pair of orange ladybirds with black spots on sunlit green foliage.

@skullsandsheets.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 10:48 AMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

The Guild Chapel in Stratford Upon Avon is wonderful! Wormy Shroud guy and demons taking souls on a piggy back ride!

@listerlanecem.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 11:06 AMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

#31DaysOfGraves Day 10: Missing
Stone figure with missing head on grave monument at Lister Lane Cemetery.

A weathered Gothic stone grave monument at Lister Lane Cemetery featuring a robed figure in a niche with its head cleanly removed.

@ranaroth.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 11:14 AMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

West Norwood, London. War memorial. 1922 by William Douglas Caröe. Photo: 16.05.2026. #London #memorial #WarMemorial #WilliamCaröe

@dianeechambers.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:15 AMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

#31DaysofGraves
Day 10 Missing

@debsadelight.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:47 AMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

#31DaysOfGraves #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Day 10. Missing

Bellingham
Sadly in disrepair

@elisemadeleine.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:29 AMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

Day 9 of #31daysofgraves: Lettering. Stonecutting brothers Samuel and Sylvanus Tingley invented some of the most intricate fonts in early 19th c Providence, RI. This rather plain-looking slate for Charles Haskell, a Black Revolutionary War veteran, takes on new dimensions when you get verrrry close.

@orsa-marga.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:14 AMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

#31DaysOfGraves 2026
Day 9: Lettering Sütterlin script handwritten German 1917.
Translation in Alt-Text.
Berlin Grunewald
20 year old Herrmann died in WWI in West-Flandern.

Schwarze Grabtafel an einer hellen Wand. Bild einer Möwe. Text in alter deutscher Schreibschrift:
Ich bin die Möwe. Zur Heimat auf Flügeln unverletzt schwing ich mich weiter.
Zur Ehre Herrmann Moebius Fahnenjunker - Gefreiter. 1. Marine Infanterie Regiment
Geboren 22. Dezember 1897 zu Grunewald Gefallen 20. Oktober 1917 vor Poelkapelle
"rein und reif" gab er sein junges Leben dem Vaterlande
English: I am the seagull. Unharmed, I soar onward on wings toward home.
In honor of Herrmann Moebius, Officer Cadet – Lance Corporal, 1st Marine Infantry Regiment.
Born December 22, 1897, in Grunewald; fell October 20, 1917, near Poelkapelle.
"Pure and mature," he gave his young life for the Fatherland.

@carolineirwin3.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:24 AMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

#31DaysofGraves Day 10 Missing Inscriptions on gravestones in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul, Mottistone, Isle of Wight, have been worn away by weathering.

@chartresfi.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:39 PMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

When you start carving a headstone but have a serious attack of the curlicues..
Todays theme for #31DaysofGraves is Lettering and I'm sure there's a letter in there somewhere.

@fotc.au Oct 9, 2026, 9:01 PMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

🪦 #31DaysOfGraves — Day 10: Missing

These unmarked graves are missing headstones but the rain helps us remember that people are buried there.

📍 Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 🦘 fotc.au

Unmarked graves can be clearly seen after rain.

There are many unmarked graves in Toowong Cemetery. Take care when you walk across the grass as unmarked graves can leave hidden hollows that are a trip hazard.

@orsa-marga.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:16 AMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

#31DaysofGraves
Day 10 Missing
St. Alban Basel

Grabplatte der Basler Patrizierfamilie Iselin-Forcart mit starken Rissen und Ergänzungen ohne text

@ianebbage.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:23 AMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

The memorial to P.Caelius, a centurion in the XVIIIth Legion. His body is "missing" (ossa inferre licebit) because he was killed in an ambush in the Teutoburg Forest in Germany in AD9 in which up to 20,000 Romans were lost #31DaysofGraves Day 10 Missing (LVR LandesMuseum, Bonn)

@welwynarchsoc.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:53 AMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

Day 10 of #31DaysOfGraves theme is missing. This monument is in the churchyard of St Mary's, #Hertingfordbury. I wonder whose grave this is?

A black and white photograph of a grave monument which consists of a low brick wall on which is written "To the Glory of God and in unfading memory of" The name is then missing.

@cjamcmahon.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:21 PMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

clearly, I have a theory. I think the 'great ancestor' is Art Moyle Mac Mahon who died in 1560, (AFM 1560.2). I think I can make the case, but the paper keeps expanding and expanding!

@scotchurchestrust.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 5:55 PMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

Day 9 of #31DaysOfGraves - Lettering

If you are ever having trouble reading an historic gravestone you will be absolutely amazed what a night-time visit and a torch held at a raked angle will reveal! 🪦🔦

This beautiful example is in Stenton Kirkyard in East Lothian.

@lensblurred.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:03 AMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

#31DaysOfGraves Day 9: Lettering

Forgotten Words

Bexleyheath Cemetary

Close up photograph of a gravestone that has fallen and laying on its back. Water has pooled on the surface and loosened all of the letters away from the stone. They are now jumbled like spaghetti letters. Some freshly cut grass lays amongst the letters. A flower is also carved into the stone.

@antiquaries.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:42 PMReposted by @churchmonuments.bsky.social

Is there a coat of arms more suited to the Halloween season than this one?! This image comes from a German manuscript made up of a collection of coats of arms which relate mainly to the Holy Roman Empire. It was probably written in southwest Germany or Switzerland, around the early 16th century.