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...

Brass rubbing was originally a largely British enthusiasm for reproducing onto paper monumental brasses – commemorative brass plaques found in churches...

About 80 ancient monumental brasses survive in Gloucestershire, many in the parish churches at Cirencester and Northleach. Many have been lost to theft...

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...

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...

John's 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...

In 1944 Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell included a monumental brass, stated to be for the cartographer John Speed, among their collection...

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...

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...

and was buried at Newlyn East. His monumental brass survives in Stratton Church, Cornwall. His monumental brasses survive in St Andrew's Church, Stratton...

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...

Somerset, was a Knight of the Shire, Sheriff and High Sheriff. His monumental brass effigy survives in South Petherton Church. Daubeney was born in 1395...

Macklin, Herbert Walter; Page-Phillips, John (January 13, 1969). "Monumental brasses". New York, Praeger. Retrieved January 13, 2024 – via Internet Archive...

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...

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...

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...

and heir apparent who predeceased his father without progeny. His monumental brass survives set into the floor of Great Bedwyn church, inscribed as follows:...

such as cadaver imagery on incised slabs and monumental brasses, including the so-called "shroud brasses", of which many survive in England. France has...

Norfolk. Geoffrey and Alice Boleyn of Salle are commemorated by a monumental brass in Salle Church, which shows the two figures frontally, standing, set...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Altar", but was probably buried at Shillingford with her husband. A monumental brass of Huddesfield and his second wife Katherine Courtenay survives in...

wife) Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland (1493–1542), KG. Her monumental brass survives in Skipton Parish Church, Cumbria. Maud Percy, who may have...

daughter of Thomas Alabaster, a cloth merchant of Hadleigh, Suffolk. A monumental brass in her memory remains in Hadleigh Church. Her brother John Alabaster...

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,...

buried in the middle of the choir of Olveston Church, as the Denys monumental brass there states. In 1490 Walshe was appointed King's Receiver of the estates...

retrieved 28 March 2013; M. W. Norris, Monumental Brasses: The Memorials, 2 vols., London, 1977; idem, Monumental Brasses: The Craft, London, 1978; F. Haskell...

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...