A monumental brass is a type of engraved sepulchral memorial once found through Western Europe, which in the 13th century began to partially take the place...
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Brass rubbing was originally a largely British enthusiasm for reproducing onto paper monumental brasses – commemorative brass plaques found in churches...
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About 80 ancient monumental brasses survive in Gloucestershire, many in the parish churches at Cirencester and Northleach. Many have been lost to theft...
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prostitute "Brass", the metallic body of a cartridge case, usually made of brass Horse brass, a plaque used to decorate shire horses Monumental brass, commemorative...
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Hugh Hastings I (section Monumental brass)
War. His largely surviving monumental brass in Elsing Church in Norfolk is "one of the most celebrated of all English brasses". Hugh was the second son...
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Barons of the Exchequer, by his wife Joan de Septvans (d. 1298), whose monumental brass survives in Cobham Church, a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert...
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John Arundell (1474–1545) (section Monumental brass)
His monumental brass in the church at St Columb Major in Cornwall was described by Dunkin (1882) as "perhaps the most elaborate and interesting brass to...
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retrieved 28 March 2013; M. W. Norris, Monumental Brasses: The Memorials, 2 vols., London, 1977; idem, Monumental Brasses: The Craft, London, 1978; F. Haskell...
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the altar rail are brasses of Sir John d'Abernon (died 1277) and of his son Sir John d'Abernon (died 1327). The monumental brass of Sir John the Elder...
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upon for one purpose and later reused for another; for example, a monumental brass the reverse blank side of which has been re-engraved. The word palimpsest...
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John Arundell (admiral) (section Monumental brass)
and was buried at Newlyn East. His monumental brass survives in Stratton Church, Cornwall. His monumental brasses survive in St Andrew's Church, Stratton...
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showing her eight sons (see above). Small monumental brass of John Rolle Detail from Margaret Ford's monumental brass Vivian, p.652, pedigree of Rolle Vivian...
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collars, the 14th and 15th centuries show many private devices. A monumental brass at Mildenhall shows a knight whose badge of a dog or wolf circled by...
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buried in St. Peter's Church, Hever, where survives his elaborate monumental brass. He is depicted dressed in full robes wearing the insignia of a Knight...
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Macklin, Herbert Walter; Page-Phillips, John (January 13, 1969). "Monumental brasses". New York, Praeger. Retrieved January 13, 2024 – via Internet Archive...
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John Speed (section Monumental brass)
In 1944 Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell included a monumental brass, stated to be for the cartographer John Speed, among their collection...
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Norfolk. Geoffrey and Alice Boleyn of Salle are commemorated by a monumental brass in Salle Church, which shows the two figures frontally, standing, set...
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the monumental brass effigy of Sir John Giffard, who died in 1348. The brass effigy is life-size, at around 6 feet long. After around 1740, the brass went...
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Willoughby of Parham (died 1603), and had five children. "Palimpsest; Monumental Brass." The British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1990-0105-1...
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William Huddesfield (section Monumental brass)
Altar", but was probably buried at Shillingford with her husband. A monumental brass of Huddesfield and his second wife Katherine Courtenay survives in...
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in the chantry), father of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland. A monumental brass in memory of Anne of York and her husband Sir Thomas St. Leger survives...
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and was buried in Filleigh Church, where two monumental brasses exist in his memory. Two monumental brasses which formerly adorned a tomb-monument of Richard...
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such as cadaver imagery on incised slabs and monumental brasses, including the so-called "shroud brasses", of which many survive in England. France has...
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William Greville (section Monumental brass)
his ancestors. His very large ledger stone (8 ft 9" * 4 ft 4") with monumental brasses survives in Campden Church, in a position of great prominence, on...
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of Fowey) by his wife Alice Lanyon (d.20 August 1591) (whose 1602 monumental brass survives in Fowey Church,) daughter of William Lanyon by his wife Thomasine...
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sister of kings Edward IV (1442–1483) and Richard III (1452–1485). A monumental brass in memory of Anne and Sir Thomas survives on the east wall of the Rutland...
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The monumental brass of John Rudying is a brass of 1481 to Archdeacon John Rudying in the Church of St Andrew in Biggleswade in Bedfordshire noted for...
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Wotton-under-Edge. His very large chest tomb with Monumental brass on top survives in that church. The brass shows him lying beside his wife, and is very similar...
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denominations from 1 chalkous to 4 obols." For example as inscribed on the monumental brass of Thomas de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys (d.1421) in St George's Church...
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Latten (redirect from Latten brass)
brass or bronze that appeared in the Middle Ages and through to the late-18th and early-19th centuries. Such alloys were used for monumental brasses,...
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