Brass group of 1378 commemorating Sir John Foxley and his two wives in St Michael's Church, Bray, Berkshire
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 of three-dimensional monuments and effigies carved in stone or wood. Made of hard latten or sheet brass, let into the pavement, and thus forming no obstruction in the space required for the services of the church, they speedily came into general use, and continued to be a favourite style of sepulchral memorial for three centuries.[1]
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A monumentalbrass 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 monumentalbrasses – commemorative brass plaques found in churches...
About 80 ancient monumentalbrasses survive in Gloucestershire, many in the parish churches at Cirencester and Northleach. Many have been lost to theft...
War. His largely surviving monumentalbrass in Elsing Church in Norfolk is "one of the most celebrated of all English brasses". Hugh was the second son...
such as cadaver imagery on incised slabs and monumentalbrasses, including the so-called "shroud brasses", of which many survive in England. France has...
Altar", but was probably buried at Shillingford with her husband. A monumentalbrass of Huddesfield and his second wife Katherine Courtenay survives in...
retrieved 28 March 2013; M. W. Norris, MonumentalBrasses: The Memorials, 2 vols., London, 1977; idem, MonumentalBrasses: The Craft, London, 1978; F. Haskell...
upon for one purpose and later reused for another; for example, a monumentalbrass the reverse blank side of which has been re-engraved. The word palimpsest...
collars, the 14th and 15th centuries show many private devices. A monumentalbrass at Mildenhall shows a knight whose badge of a dog or wolf circled by...
Macklin, Herbert Walter; Page-Phillips, John (January 13, 1969). "Monumentalbrasses". New York, Praeger. Retrieved January 13, 2024 – via Internet Archive...
his ancestors. His very large ledger stone (8 ft 9" * 4 ft 4") with monumentalbrasses survives in Campden Church, in a position of great prominence, on...
In 1944 Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell included a monumentalbrass, stated to be for the cartographer John Speed, among their collection...
Norfolk. Geoffrey and Alice Boleyn of Salle are commemorated by a monumentalbrass in Salle Church, which shows the two figures frontally, standing, set...
Willoughby of Parham (died 1603), and had five children. "Palimpsest; MonumentalBrass." The British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1990-0105-1...
denominations from 1 chalkous to 4 obols." For example as inscribed on the monumentalbrass of Thomas de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys (d.1421) in St George's Church...
Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. He is believed to be represented by a monumentalbrass of a knight, without surviving identifying inscription, set into a...
brass or bronze that appeared in the Middle Ages and through to the late-18th and early-19th centuries. Such alloys were used for monumentalbrasses,...
of Fowey. He married Alice Lanyon (died 20 August 1591) (whose 1602 monumentalbrass survives in Fowey Church,: image plate XLV ) daughter of William Lanyon...
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