West End Congregational Church war memorial tablet. Haverhill, Suffolk.
West End Congregational Church war memorial tablet. West End Congregational Church, Haverhill, Suffolk. First World War. #LestWeForget
Last month I travelled from the Highlands of Scotland to Cornwall in pursuit of spring and finished a watercolour and post every day - here's Day Eight at Newport Cathedral in Wales. www.digest.andymarsh...
a slate gravestone dated 1692 with lush gourds in the border
another slate gravestone dated 1710 with big old boobs under head finials
another gravestone 1709 heads on finials big round gourds/boobs in border
In the words of poet Rev. Edward Taylor (1642-1729),
Lord put these nibbles then my mouth into
And suckle me therewith I humbly pray
Then with this milk thy spiritual babe I'st grow
And these two milke pails shall themselves display
small slate gravestones with a cross and IHS above a busty winged effigy epitaph: James Slaven son of Patrick and Ann Slaven, died May 4, 1833, aged 19 month
detail of the same stone, focused on the angel with melon-sized boobs
Crosses were not a common motif on New England gravestones before the 19th century, when Catholic immigrants brought their cross-iconography traditions to NE graveyards.
Big, luscious boobs, however, were actually a very common symbol on 18th-century gravestones โ a metaphor for the two testaments.
Congratulations to the Australian Remembrance Army for securing a grant from the Australian Government to mark 120 unmarked graves of World War 1 soldiers in Toowong Cemetery.
An outstanding achievement by Katrina Trevethan and Cate Walker.
Lest We Forget ๐บ
www.dva.gov.au/news/latest-...
Vast burial complex discovered in Romeโs Ostiense Necropolis
www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/vast...
St. Mary's Cemetery, Battersea Rise, Wandsworth, London. Grave of James Horne d.1868. Photo: 26.10.2024. #London #cemetery #grave #burial #JamesHorne
A black and white photograph of a serene, weathered stone angel statue with large wings, standing on a pedestal within a cemetery setting, framed by the soft-focus textures of surrounding trees.
Riverton Cemetery, Riverton, South Australia.
ยฉ ๐๐ต๐ต ๐ก๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฝ๐ผ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ผ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ช๐ป๐ญ๐ฎ๐ท๐ผ ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฒ๐ต๐ฎ๐ท๐ฝ.
#cemetery #cemeteries #grave #graves #gravestone #graveyard #taphophile #gardensofthesilent #southaustralia #photography #cemeteryphotography #cemeterylovers
#MementoMoriMonday Carregfedd coes Henry Hughes ym mynwent Eglwys y Santes Fair yn Ystrad Fflur / Headstone of the leg of Henry Hughes in St Mary's cemetery in Strata Florida.
www.strataflorida.org.uk
Restoring identity and humanity to the names we walk past. #MountMoriahCemeteryPhiladelphia #MoreThanAName #Taphophile #CemeteryLover #EchoesOfALife #StillRemembered #365Days #68of365 #EveryStoneHasAStory #GravestoneStories #LivesRemembered #MoreThanAName
Looking forward to Wednesday 2pm-3.30pm
Tour of Rarely Seen parts of St Davids Cathedral - with Tudor theme
Surrounded by the Tudor story - which one is buried here? which Tudor monarch helped save the Welsh language?
Tickets online or nave shop:
www.stdavidscathedral.org,uk/discover/library
A close up of an ornate gravestone featuring a crude drawing of a woman with droopy breasts.
It's #MementoMoriMonday, so I thought I'd share this absolutely wild gravestone of Prudence Hammond who died in 1711. It's located in Watertown, Massachusetts - and it's certainly... memorable!
Photo: Gravestones of New England
More info: shorturl.at/ldIcG
Graveside plaque that reads: In Memory of SARAH JARVIS Who departed this life the 11th Day of December 1753 In the Hundred and Seventh Year of her Age Some Time before her Death She had Fresh Teeth
I feel like this lady and this other woman from Wiltshire, England might have been kindred spirits.
It looks like the old link is broken, so try this one instead!
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Image shows a close-up of the headstone of the Hanson family buried at Lister Lane Cemetrey. The inscription on the stone reads: In memory of Joseph Hanson, of Halifax, born May 24th 1822, died June 2nd 1880. Also of Harriet Emma, daughter of the above, born May 3rd 1860, died October 2nd 1862. Also of Ellen, daughter of the above, born January 4th 1868, died February 2nd 1869. "Thy will be done." Also of Martha, widow of the above Joseph Hanson, who died March 9th 1899, aged 73 years.
Remembering Martha, wife of Joseph Hanson, who died on this day in 1899 at the age of 73.
The obverse face features a large shafted Christian cross with hollow angles which spans the full width of the face and the majority of its length. The front of the stone is the most weathered face as, having been laid face-down, this portion of the stone was subjected to many years of cyclical wetting and drying. However, panels of decorative interlace and entangled zoomorphic creatures are still visible around the cross. Above the cross lies a narrow upper section which depicts the confronting heads of two fanged beasts. The Conan beasts have anatomically specific teeth โ they have molars, canines and incisors โ and feature dangling interlace from their mouths, perhaps representing their tongues or snakes. The reverse face depicts a range of different real and mythical creatures. In the upper left corner, approximately one fifth of the surface has been deliberately chipped away and re-inscribed with the names Hugh McAulay and Alexander McAulay, together with the date January 2 1796. This Pre-Reformation inscription obscures what may once have been a full-width serpent and Z-rod Pictish symbol, the floriated terminals of which are still visible as is the double disc and Z-shaped symbol below. To the side sits a small S-shaped figure matching the hippocampus (symbol no.159) in ECMS. The remaining space is occupied by rows of paired beasts: a kneeling figure with an animal head that often appears on Pictish cross-slabs, and is often termed the โformidable manโ, faces a now headless centaur with two axes and a small cauldron-like object stands between them. Below, a pair of quadrupeds also face each other and two oxen with large U-shaped horns face rightwards. Interlace appears on both the narrow east and west faces of the stone. On the west face, the interlace terminates just beyond the half way point to give way to an angular key pattern.
Discovered in 2019, this 1,200-year-old Pictish cross-slab featuring real and mythical creatures was reused as a gravestone in the Highlands in the 18th century ๐ชฆ
Dig into the story with the North of Scotland Archaeological Society in Inverness on 19 March: www.digitscotland.com/events/not-a...
A black and white photograph of an ornate, pointed gravestone for Hanna Pauline Schilling in a quiet cemetery, featuring detailed German inscriptions and decorative carvings set against a backdrop of dark, lush foliage.
Bethany Pioneer Cemetery, Bethany, South Australia.
ยฉ ๐๐ต๐ต ๐ก๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฝ๐ผ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ผ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ช๐ป๐ญ๐ฎ๐ท๐ผ ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฒ๐ต๐ฎ๐ท๐ฝ.
#cemetery #cemeteries #grave #graves #gravestone #graveyard #taphophile #gardensofthesilent #southaustralia #photography #cemeteryphotography #cemeterylovers
#ChurchMonuments the memorial
To Thomas Bodley in Merton College Chapel
#Oxford English diplomat and scholar who founded the Bodleian #Library Died 1613
#ChurchMonuments memorial to Henry Savile. Warden of Merton College #Oxford 1549-1622. He was an English scholar and mathematician. Translated the Bible from Greek - English. MP for Bossiney #Cornwall & Dunwich #Suffolk A busy man!!
Good news that the digitised Beowulf manuscript has survived the digital equivalent of the Cottonian Library fire, the British Library cyberattack of 2023
Artist Timothy Yufitโs In Place project uses Layers of London to document displaced headstones embedded within Londonโs parks and public spaces. These fragmented historical traces remain present within the contemporary urban landscape. www.layersoflondon.org/map/collecti...
Close-up of about twenty overwintering ladybirds clustered together against the weathered stonework of a grave monument.
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Good day all.
Groups of ladybirds clustered aginst weathered stonework or in crevices of grave monuments.
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2/2 Here's the whole thing, with another angel and more skulls. A creature of the night holds the drapery of the inscription in its teeth.
#MemorialsMonday #MonumentsMonday #MementoMoriMonday
#ChurchMonuments monuments to the Acland family in All Saints Selworthy #Somerset #Exmoor #churches the monuments are by Francis Chantrey. On the left Charles Baldwin Dyke Acland died of fever in 1837 whilst on an anti-slavery operations with Royal Navy
#Chantrey
#MementoMori in St Georgeโs Priory church #Dunster
Mary Slingsby nee Percy 1598 at Knaresborough Church, Yorkshire.
Crudely carved skull with cross bones above and four acorn-like pendants below
For #MementoMoriMonday this rather odd skull from the graveyard at Llanbeblig - crossbones above rather than below the skull, and what are those strange pendants?
An angel with a skull and sheaves of corn on the 1686 memorial to Thomas Robertson in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. It was inside the church originally, but was removed in the major restoration of 1883.
#MemorialsMonday #MonumentsMonday #MementoMoriMonday
Four small figures โ S. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary, S. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read, S. Roch and S.Sebastian โ on a second โcenotaphโ, which is now squashed in beside the organ in St. John the Baptist, Marldon, Devon.
#SundayStonework
#MonumentsMonday I remember visiting Exeter cathedral and a friend pointing out The Reverend Nutcombe Nutcombe's memorial to me.
As delightful on my recent visit as it was several years ago! @chartresfi.bsky.social @thehistorymouse.bsky.social
