LINCOLNSHIRE

                                                          Ashby-cum-Fenby - St Peter

Knight (early 14th century) with cross legs.
Suzanne Drury (ob 1606). Standing wall monument of the 17th century but the semi-reclining effigy said to be a replacement of c. 1700:
Sir William & Lady Frances Wray  Ten poster bed monument of c 1640 with two reclining effigies, children lean against base . This Sir William's father was Sir Christopher Wray of Glentworth. (shown)

TOWER
Sir Richard Brownlow (ob. 1668)  In the style of  William Stanton. Large architectural tablet with achievement in an open scrolly pediment at the top.

SOUTH WALL
Lady Cust  (ob. 1772) by William.Tyler.
William Brownlow (ob. 1726) by Edward Stanton & Christopher Horsnaile. Architectural tablet with two columns and standing putti outside them.
Alice, Lady Brownlow, widow of Younf Sir John (ob. 1721) by Edward Stanton & Christopher Horsnaile. Tablet with fluted pilasters, an oval inscription plate, and three fine putto heads at the top.

CHANCEL - SOUTH
Sir Brownlow Cust, 4th Bt of Stamford, 1st Baron Brownlow (ob. 1807) by Sir Richard Westmacott. Standing monuments of white marble. Semicircular plinth, and on it a kneeling maiden by a broken column. The capital lies by her on the ground. Reredos background. He was elevated to the peerage in recognition of his father's service as Speaker. (shown)
Sir John Brownlow, 5th Bt of Humby, Viscount Tyrconnel and Baron Charleville (ob. 1754) by Sir Henry Cheere. Standing monument of white and pink marble. Seated figure of Hope (note the anchor) holding a portrait medallion. Richly decorated reredos background (shown)

CHANCEL - NORTH
Sir John Cust, 3rd Bt of Stamford, Speaker of the House of Commons (ob. 1770) by William Tyler. Standing monument of white, black and brown marble. Seated figure holding a key; to her right a medallion, and on it, in relief, the Speaker's chair. At her feet an open book; in it recorded in the Journal of the House of Commons the year 1768 when Sir John was re-elected Speaker. (shown)
Etheldred Anne Cust (ob. 1788 aged 17) by John Bacon, 1793. Tablet with a charming roundel of a young girl with a lamb.
Katherine Cust (ob. 1827) Small tablet with of flowers around the frame.
Hon. Rev. Richard Cust (ob. 1864) by W. Theed. Big white tablet with Christ and kneeling shepherd. 

NORTH CHAPEL
"Old" Sir John, 1st Bt of Belton (ob. 1679) and Dame Alicia Brownlow (ob. 1679) by William Stanton 1679. Standing monument. Black and white. Against the reredos background, two frontal demi-figures holding hands. Columns and an open segmental pediment. Inscription on a draped cloth. Stanton received £166 17s 0d for this monument. There is a photograph of the monuments in Brian Kemp's Church Monuments (Shire 1997) p. 19.
Richard Brownlow (ob. 1638) by Joshua Marshall but as Marshall was only in his teens in 1638, it must date from the 1650's or 60's. Alabaster. Frontal demi-figure in an arched niche. Complex surround. Richard Brownlow was a prominent Elizabethan lawyer who founded the Brownlow fortunes and built the uper stages of the church tower. Marshall carved the plinth of the equestrian statue of Charles l in Whitehall and, as master mason, was responsible for the Monument and for City churches after the Fire of London.

MORTUARY CHAPEL
John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow (ob. 1853) by Marochetti. Tomb chest with white recumbent effigy. Marochetti was also responsible for the equestrian bronze of Richard the Lionhear outside the Palace of Westminster and the effigies of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the Frogmore Mausoleum at Windsor. (shown)
Caroline, Countess Brownlow (ob. 1824) Standing white monument with a seated lady. Pilgrim's staff and pilgrim's hat on the ground. Putti in the sky.
Adelaide, Countess Brownlow (ob. 1917)   by Lady Feodora Gleichen. Tablet with white profile against dark blue mosaic. Surround of green marbles.
Sophia Hume, Countess Brownlow (ob. 1814) was the first wife of the 1st Earl. The monument for which the chapel was built. By Antonio Canova. Standing monument of an upright Grecian woman, one hand raised, the other on a portrait medallion.  This stands on a short Greek Doric column (not quite it has a base). But the plinth has a band of knobbly Perp foliage. This latter may be by Westmacott, Canova's pupil. (shown)
John Hume, Viscount Alford ( ob 1851) designed by Sir G. G. Scott. Fine Gothick tomb.Tomb-recess in the west wall. Tomb-chest richly inlaid with a pattern of coloured marble and with a brass cross on the cover slab. Pillars, surmounted by lions holding shields, flank an elaborated canopy. (shown)

NORTH AISLE
"Young" Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Bt of Humby  (ob. 1697) Architectural. Standing monument with two columns and a segmental pediment. By W. Stanton (Mrs Esdale). This Sir John "built" Belton House; the actual master mason was Stanton himself.
Henry "Harry" John Cockayne Cust, (ob. 1917) by his wife, Emmeline "Nina" Crust, who also carved a bust of her husband which is in Belton House. Recumbent effigy on slab supported by disagreeable stumpy red marble pillasters with equally disagreeable beige marble capitals. He was a poet and editor or the Pall Mall Gazette and would have succedded to the Brownlow title but predeceased his cousin, the 3rd Earl.
The beautifully simple wall mounted stone (shown) to Brig. Richard Brownlow Purey-Cust (ob 1958) and his wife Patricia (ob 1993) contrasts with the above proud monuments of an earlier age.

OUTSIDE - NORTH OF TOWER
Adelbert Cust, 5th Baron Brownlow (ob. 1927) by Sir Edwin Lutyens. A plain classical tomb-chest, cruciform.

Boston - St Botolph

Wisselus de Smalenburgh (1312) of Münster, a Hanseatic merchant, incised slab. From Grayfriar's church.
Walter Pescod (ob 1398) & Wife brass
Priest (c. 1400) brass
Civilian & 2 Wives (1400) brass, poor
Knight (c 1500) alabaster on tomb chest. shown
Lady (c 1400) alabaster shown
Brass (c 1500) part of, chancel floor
John Boult (ob 1700) cartouch
John Wood (ob 1702) cartouch
Richard Fydell (ob 1780) big tablet of coloured marbles with profile in oval medallion. By James Wallis of Newark
Mrs Elizabeth Fydell (ob 1783) tablet by James Wallis of Newark
Thomas Fydell (ob 1812) sarcopagus with inscription. By Craik of London
Elizabeth Fydell (ob 1816) tablet with draped urn. By John Bacon Jnr
Thomas & Elizabeth Fydell (ob 1812) by Craik (see above)
James Hollway (1828)
John Connington (ob 1873) by Scott Tablet with resurection
Rev John Cotton (1857) brass
Herbert Ingram (ob 1860) bust
Richard Rolle brass
Job Phillips tablet

           Brocklesby      -     All Saints
16th century standing alabaster with effigies of Sir William Pelham (ob 1587) and wife with sons and daughters, kneeling and facing each other;
17th century: Sir William Pelham (ob 1629): two recumbent effigies with rows of children kneeling on the tomb chest by William Wright of Charing Cross.
Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley (ob 1914) in the 17th century style (shown left) by Charles Jagger.
Marcia, Countess of Yarbourough, 1928 by Sir W Reid Dick, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield; white marble standing figure with two children; neo-Flaxman style.
Charles, 4th Earl of Yarbourough (ob 1936) large wall tablet with portrait and arms.

                Brocklesby Mausoleum
                    (in private hands)
By Wyatt and completed by 1792. Figure of Sophia Aufrere (ob. 1786) carved by Nollekens in c. 1791, the raison d'être for the building.
(shown right)
In three recesses are monuments of the Pelham family made in Italy in the late 1760'sivate hands) 

Buslingthorpe - St Mary
(redundant)

Sir Richard Boselyngthorpe (early 14th century) demi-brass in a coffin lid with Lombarding inscription (shown)
Sir John Buslingthorpe (ob 1340/4) cross legged knight
Priest incised slab

Careby
St Stephen

Two unusual medieval monuments:
13th century heart burial, shield with two hands holding heart,
A mid 14th century knight/lady; busts only, their bodies dissapear into solid slab with shield.  
knight with crossed legs.

Denton - St Andrew

14th century sunken effigy of a priest.
John Blyth (ob 1602): recumbent effigy on half rolled up mattress; children with their names against the tomb chest.
Richard Welby: 1714 statue by Green of Camberwell, on base surrounded by four putti. (shown)
Several 18th century tablets including one to Suzanna Gregory with bats' wings,skull, snake & hourglass by Thomas Taylor and one to John Welby (ob 1736) attributed to Rysbrack
Good 18th century slate headstones in church yard.  

Edenham

St Michael

Civilian/Lady of c1300.
Another lady of same date.
Later 14th century knight/lady on tomb chest with shields displaying the Simeon and Neville arms.
The church houses a series of monuments to Berties, Lords Willoughby of Eresby and later Dukes of Ancaster, namely:-
Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Linsey (ob 1642) & his son (ob 1666), black & white marble.
Richard Bertie (ob 1686) possibly by James Hardy.
1st Duke of Ancaster (ob 1723); standing white figure against black reredos; by Henry Scheemakers & Henry Cheere.
Robert Willoughby & others, 1738; black & white; big sarcophagus with urn & seven busts; attributed to PeterScheemakers.
2nd Duke of Ancaster (ob 1741), standing figure leaning on urn; below which a medallion with profile of his wife; by Henry Cheere.
Third & Fourth Dukes (ob 1778 & 1779), two standing figures with medallion of wife of one; against convex back panel a medallion of child; by Charles Harris.
Hon Frederick Burrell (ob 1819) as a baby carried by angels.
1st Lord Gwydyr (ob 1820), bust on round pedastal; by Nollekens.
Clementine, Baroness Willoughby (ob 1881), neo-baroque.
Tablet to Rev John Bland (ob 1761) by Bingham.
George Parker (ob 1831), neo-gothic; by Smith of Stamford.
There are more High Victorian monuments to the Berties family in the church yard.
Also in the church are the Heathcote memorials, removed here from Normaton church, Rutland and all of the 19th century

Glentworth - St Michael

Alabaster standing wall monument, 1593, with two recumbent effigies of Sir Christopher Wray (ob 1592)and wife; coffered arch with a kneeling effigy of their son at the top; four kneeling daughters on the tomb chest. Perhaps by Nicholas Johnson of Southwark.
Elizabeth Saunderson (ob 1714), white marble with cherubs' head and putti; by Edward Hurst. (shown)

Gosberton

Grantham

St Wulfram

The "Harrington Tomb", a recess of 1360-80.
Richard Saltby 1369 - similar to above.
Mrs Middlemore (ob 1710); tablet attributed to circle of William Stanton.
William Middlemore (ob 1712); tablet by Benjamin Palmer.
Lord Chief Justice Sir Dudly Rider (ob 1756) by Henry Cheere (1759); a seated figure with black obelisk behind. A very fine monuments.
Sir William Bury (ob 1706); a black columned aedicule by Edward Stanton.
Sir Thomas Bury (ob 1722) attributed to Christopher Horsnaile.
William Cust (ob 1747); standing monuments with a bust before an obelisk with a military still life at foot. By Cheere.
Randolph Clarke (ob 1751) by Christopher Staveley.
Revd Mr Stevens (ob 1751) by Christopher Staveley.
Edward Turner (ob 1769); standing monument by Bingham.
Samuel Foster (ob 1776); tablet by James Hickey.
William Thorold (ob 1808) White profile bust.

Hainton

St Mary

Harmston - All Saints

Sir George Thorold, Lord Mayor of London (ob 1722) Former Lord Mayor of London. Bust wearing wig with a pair of weeping putti' (shown - left)

Sir Samuel Thorold (ob 1738) similar to above but no wig.(shown - right)

Heydour
 St Michael

 An exceptionally good set in the Newton family chapel:
Abigail Newton (ob 1688), large wall monument by William Stanton
Sir John (ob 1734), tablet by Rysbrack
Lady Newton (ob 1737), standing monument with balck sarcophagus with bust on top; by Peter Scheemakers.
Sir Michael (ob 1746) Two life sized seated figures, between which a sarcophagus with urn; by Peter Scheemakers.(shown)
Margaret, Countess of Coningsby(ob 1761), daughter-in-law of above; tablet by  Rysbrack

Honington - St Wilfred

William Smith (ob 1552) incised slab on tomb chest (shown - left)
Thomas Hussey (ob 1697) bust with wig
Dame Sarah Hussey (ob 1714) three cherubs head above inscription

Hougham  - All Saints

Sir Hugh de Bussey (ob 1306) cross legged knight
Revd George Thorold AM, Rector of Houghton-cum-Marston (ob 1823) books and chilice by P Rouw the Younger (shown - right)
Arthur William Thorold (ob 1853) marble by Boucheau of London

                                          Hough-on- the- Hill - All Saints
Edward Payne (ob 1728) standing monment of white sarcophagus before black obelisk. By Behjamin Palmer c. 1742
Thomas Payne (ob 1642) idenical, also by Palmer
John Marris (ob 1785) by Edward Tatem
Arabella Ashton, wife of William Ashton of Brandon, Lincs (ob 1792) She died age 42 giving birth to her eleventh child. The monument also to three of her children: Sancta, Charlotte and Catherine. By J Wallis (shown - left)
William Ashton (ob 1826) age 72. By  R Marshall (shown- right)
The above two sculptors eventually went into partnership
Francis Musson (ob 1837) by Collingwood of Grantham

                                                                                         Howell - St Oswald
Large grave slab with primitive crosses.
Lady & Child (14th cnetury) Bust of lady in relief under a trefoil arch on a grave slab; below this is repeated with the bust of her daughter
John Crosby, Rector (c 1470) incised slab with the figure under a canopy
Sir Charles Dymock Jacobean with kneelers
John Spenser, Rector 1424-48 inscription on the base of the  remains of the medieval cross in the church yard

Kelstern St Faith

Elizabeth South (ob 1604) alabaster standing monument. She is seated frontally, on her left a putto with spade and on her right a putto with skull and extinguished torch. Clock face in one of the spandrels of the arch above
Richard Parnell Booth of Culverthorpe (ob 1837) by John Earl of Hull

Kingerby - St Peter
(Redundant Churches Fund)

Knight (14th century) crossed legs, puppies by pillow
Knight (late 14th century)
A Disney knight (late 14th century) only upper part of fugure and shoes sppear
Cecilia Young (ob 1830) tablet by Durance of Lincoln; Other members of family have tablets also probably by the same.
 

Laughton - All Saints

Hugo Francis Maynell-Ingram and to his wife Emily Charlotte by T Woolner (1874). There is another of these monuments at Hoare Cross, Staffordshire.

                   Leadenham -St Swithin
Elizabethan tablet with coat of arms.
Lady Jane Sherard (ob 1851): mourning kneeling woman by an urn; by Gaffin.
Frances Reeve (ob 1851): kneeling young woman; by T Gaffin.
General John Reeve and wife (both ob 1864): with figures of Faith and Hope; by Burke.
There are many other 18th and 19 century tablets.
Good slate headstones in the church yard.

                                                      Lenton - St. Peter's
Armyne Family (erected 1605) Large limestone monument on the north wall of the chancel. Pevsner says it looks c.1570 (left)
Jane Chaworth (ob 1606) Alabaster with a strapwork frame and inscription on south wall of the chancel. Mrs Chaworth had 12 sons and 4 daughters.
These photographs were contributed by Elizabeth Heaton

Lincoln Cathedral

            Little Steeping - St Andrew

Thomas of Reading, Rector (1318-1353) The inscription is in Norman French (shown)

Nocton -All Saints

A tall standing monuments in white & gray marble to Sir William Ellys (ob 1680) attributed to William Santon; no figures.
Other monuments are of the 19th century with work by John Bacon Jnr, Richard Westmacott & G P White. They include a monument to the First Earl of Ripon  (ob 1859) designed by Scott with a recumbent white marble effigy by Mathew Nobel 1862 (shown)

Norton Disney

St Peter

A Disney (d'Isigny) c 1350. Military effigy on tomb-chest. Straight legs, mail, praying, shield carved with d'Isigny arms. (shown)
A Disney Lady c. 1300 Slender figure under an arch in the north wall with d'Isigny shields in wall behind. Very good. (shown)
Joan Disney  mid 14th century. An elaborate semi-effigial slab. It features a cusped staright-armed cross flanked by shields, above which is a canopy with the sunk-relief bust of a lady with flowing hair, resting her head on a pillow and wearing a tight sleeved gown, buttoned from the wrist to the elbow, hands in prayer. Within the cusped architectural mount of the cross are her feet, lying on a hound, again in sunk relief. The incised Norman-French Lombardic inscription around the slab records her being Joan, wife of Sir William Disni and daughter of Nicholas de Lancforte. A similar effigy to a member of the same family is at Kingerby. (shown)
Hantascia Disney late 14th century. She is praying, beasts at her head and feet, angels by her pillow. Shields with the d'Iseni arms are on the coping of the stone, and on one side of it the inscription, giving her name.
Sir William Disney, husband of Joan above. Brass indent which shows a cross-legged knight under a canopy, with a fillet inscription round the perimeter of the slab. c 1330
William Disney (ob. 1540) and family. An unusual geneological brass of c 1580. A quadrangular plate with two panels of demi-effigies. The upper shows William facing his wife, Margaret Joiner, across a prayer desk, with behind their 5 sons and 4 daughters, their names in scrolls. Below, forward facing are Richard Disney (ob. 1578), William's heir, and his two wives, Nele Hussey and Jane Ayscough. Behind Nele are ranged 7 sons and 5 daughters,  but the area behind Jane is blank, indicating that she was childless. The boys' names have been cut out but the girls' survive. This is a palimpsest brass, the reverse having been part of a Flemish incription (another portion of which is on the back of a brass at West Lavington, Wiltshire) recording the endowment of a mass in 1518 by Adrian Adrianson and Paechine van den Steyne in the church of Westmonstre in the city of Middleburgh. The brass is mounted on a hinge so that both sides can be viewed. The Netherlands were under the unpopular rule of the Catholic Spanish King, Phillip ll and opposition under the protestant William the Silent led to destruction in the Low Country churches, initially motivated by iconoclasm but later the raise money; much brass scrap was sold to London and Norwich based brass engravers.
This Disney brass is illustrated in Gough Sepulchral Monuments Volume 1 Part 1 facing page cxxii.
The d'Isneys are ancestors of Walt Disney.
Fourth Viscount St Vincent by J. S. Westmacott, 1887. Angel with a wreath hovering over a flag. Still in the Georgian tradition of the Westmacott family

Rand
St Oswald

Two fine medieval monuments: a coped coffin lid in Tournai marble, c. 1200, and
A lady of the late 13th century, shield on her middle; inspired by the Angel Choir of Lincoln Cathedral.
The five other monuments are Elizabethan to Jacobean.

Redbourne

St Andrew
(Redundant Churches Fund)

Rippingdale

St Andrew

Deacon, mid 13th century, holding open book with inscription; very rare type.
knight (late 13th century. Cross legged
Another similar but defaced.
Early to mid 14th century lady on tomb chest; ogee canopy above her head & similar above whole tomb.
Richard de Quincey & Wives( Late 15th century)male with two ladies; effigies on tomb chest with angels holding shields in panel
The Brownlow children of 1669 and earlier: an aedicule.

Riby

St Edmunds

William and Elizabeth Tomline (ob 1773) free stnadin wreathed urn in niche; above a small tablet with woman by urn with drapery from above. Signed: L. Tomline Delineat (shown)
Marmaduke Tomline (ob 1803) Signed E Tomline delineat and P M VanGelder fecit 1806
John Parkinson (ob 1840) white marble

Scrivelsby

St Benedict

 A Marmion & wife, cross legged knight  & lady, c. 1300.
Sir Robert Dymoke (ob 1545), brass effigy on tomb chest.
Lewis Dymoke (ob 1760), standing wall monument of white and beige marble. At base snake biting tail and two extinguished torches. By W Atkinson.(shown)
John Dymoke (ob 1784), by Richard Haywood.
Lewis Dymoke (ob 1820) by Mullane.
John Tyrwhitt (ob 1844) by King.
Emma Dymoke (ob 1884)
In the churchyard Romanesque table tomb with eight legs.

Snarford
 
St Lawrence 

  Sir Thomas St Paule (ob 1582) & wife, alabaster. A six-poster with poorly executed recumbent effigies. Flat top on which kneeling children.
 Sir George St Paule (ob 1613) & wife, a big standing wall monument (shown). The effigies lie on their sides propped up on their elbows, he behind and a little above his wife.
Robert Lord Riche, Earl of Warwick (ob 1619) & his last wife (widow of Sir George, above); alabaster tablet with effectively arranged busts. Possibly by Epiphanius Evesham. The Earl was buried at Felsted, Essex.

South Cockeringham
St Leonard's

 Sir Adrian  Scrope (ob 1623), alabaster semi-reclining effigy; Against tomb chest kneeling daughters and sons. By Epiphanius Evesham.(shown)

South Stoke or
Stoke Rochford

 
St Mary & St Andrew 

Spilsby


 

St James
 
 

 Series of Willoughby & Bertie monuments in chapel:
Knight (cross legs) & lady, 1st half of 14th century; on a tomb chest with buttresses (which carry pinnacles, not, however, original).Attributed to Robert, 1st Lord Willoughby (ob 1348).
John, 2nd Lord (ob 1372); alabaster effigy flanked by shafting with tiny figures of monks. Tomb chest with figures holding shields. He fought in the 100 Years' War with Edward lll and the Black Prince, distinguishing himself at Poiters in 1365. (shown)
John, 3rd Lord (ob 1396) & wife. Alabaster effigies on tomb chest, much renewed.
Margaret (ob 1391), 3rd wife of above; brass.
William, 5th Lord (ob 1410) & wife; brasses under canopy.
Richard Bertie (ob 1582) & wife, Baroness Katherine Willoughby de Eresby and former Duchess of Suffolk (ob 1580). A large monument which fills west wall of chapel. The back of the monument, like a reredos, has three Ionic columns separating fields with passages from the Bible, five in Latin & one in English; below is a tomb chest projection. To the east, the front of the monument, there is again a tomb chest projection with colonettes and shields. Above are three large and coarsely carved figures of a hermit, a Saracen king and a "woodwose" or wildman of the woods (All Willoughby badge) between which niches with columns, in which are well carved but out of proportion alabaster busts. Katherine & Richard were Protestants and friends of Bishop Latimer and left the country in Mary's reign, their son, Peregrine (The Wandering Falcon, see below)  was born during their wanderings. (shown)
Peregrine Bertie, 10th Lord (ob 1601) & daughter, who died in childbirth (ob 1610), dated 1612. The latter is represented semi-reclining with a baby in bed at her feet. Above in an arches niche is the 10th Lord, represented in what is probably the first standing monumental effigy in England.
Sir John Franklin, the explorer (ob1847) tablet with portrait in relief. He died in the Arctic Seas attempting to find the North West Passage. He is also commemorated in a famous ballad. (shown). Other sites about Franklin are here and here.

                                                         Stallingborough  - St Peter & St Paul

Sir Francis Ayscough , bust in arched recess. This was the brother of Anne Ayscough who tradition has it was the person who betrayed her. He expression is said to be "cold and chilling". (shown left)
Sir Edward Ayscough (1612) & wife, alabaster. Children kneel on tomb chest. (shown right)
Sir William Ayscough (1612) & wife, brasses. 

Stamford: St Martin

Richard Cecil (ob 1587) & wife; alabaster with two figures kneeling, facing across a prayer desk with three daughters kneeling below. By Cornelius Cure.
William Cecil, Lord Burghley (ob 1598), Queen Elizabeth's adviser. A six poster alabaster (shown) with recumbent effigy on a rolled up mat. Top with arms. Perhaps by Cornelius Cure.
William Wissing, the painter (ob 1687), small tablet.
Edward Dethe (ob 1687), tablet
John, 5th Earl of Exeter (ob 1700); large sarcophagus with semi-reclining figures at the base of which figures representing Victory and Art. By P. -É. Monnot, Rome; erected by William Palmer in 1710.
Noal Neal (ob 1769) by Sparrow
William Mackenzie (ob 1770)
James Davie (ob 1785) by Bingham
Cyril Jackson (ob 1797) by Westmacott.
John Truman (ob 1788) by Bingham.
William Harper (ob 1803) by Bingham
Elizabeth Plumptre (ob 1806) by William Harrison.
Thomas Truman (ob 1810) by Harrison.
Mary (ob 1814) & Henrietta (ob 1817) Mottram
John Lawson (ob 1828) by Gilbert
Martha Etough (ob 1835) by Smith of Stamford
Edward Henry (ob 1862) & Henry Poyntz Cecil (ob 1858) White marble with large frontal angle and portrait medallions below. By G M Benzoni of Rome (1864)
Brownlow Cecil (ob 1867), a Gothic tablet.
Lord Thomas Cecil (ob 1873) by Millward & Co, London.
There is also a large group of mainly plain 19th century tablets.

Stowe - St Mary

Lady (13th century) coffin lin with head and praying hands sunk in roundel (shown)
Lady - similar

One of these coffin lids had an English inscription running round the edge:

Alle men yat ben in lyf prai for Emme was Fuk wife

Richard Earle (ob 1697). A hanging wall monument of various marbles consisting of a wall plaque with plinths, on which are two busts and cherubs with skulls. The inscription, shown below, also appears on a totally different monument in Twyford, Berkshire. By Thomas Green of Camberwell. (shown)

Stay, Reader and observe Deaths partial doom
A spreading Virtue in a narrow Tomb,
A generous Mind mingled with common Dust;
Like Burnishd Steel cover'd and left in Rust.
Dark in the Earth he lies, in whom did Shine
All the Divided Merits of his Line,
The Lustre of his Name seems faded here,
No fairer Star in all that fruitfull Sphere.
In Piety and Parts extremely Bright;
Clear was his Youth, and filled with Crowning light
A morn that promised much Yet saw no Noon
None ever Rose so fair, an Set so soon
All lines of Worth were Centred here in One,
Yet see, he lies in Shades, whose Life had none,
But while the Mother this sad Structure Rears,
A double Dissolution there Appears;
He into Dust dissolves, She into Tears
Richardus Earle Bar.nt Obyt
Decimo Tertio Die Augufti
Anno Dom 1697 Aetatis Suae 24

Stragglethorpe

St Michael

                                                                           Tathwell - St Vedast

Edward Hanby (ob 1626) and Wife standing albaster wall monument in four tiers: at foot kneling children in relief, then the couple kneeling and facing each other across a pryer desk, then a kneeling son (ob 1626) and then the acheivements. Inscription.
Thomas Chaplin (ob 1747) obelisk with double winged hour glass; seated mourning woman by urn. By Hoare of Bath (shown left)
Charles Chaplin (ob 1795), wife Elizabeth (ob 1785), Revd William Chaplin MA (ob1835) and wife Isabella Frances (ob 1824). Tablet signed by W T Hale, Baker Street, London.(shown right)

Uffington
St Michael

Knight (c 1400) on tomb chest with ogee canopy.
Roger (ob 1587) and Olyver Manneres; two kneeling knights facing each other; alabaster, c. 1607.
Dean Staunton (ob 1612); again two alabaster figures facing each other. This and the above are signed by Green of Denton but he was the 19th century restorer.
Tablet with inscriptions on drapery - 1679 .
Another similar of 1710.

Utterby - St Andrew

 Priest (ob 1373) demi-effigy in sunk relief in quatrefoil surround; insription (shown)

Washingborough -St John the Evangelist

Lady she is sunk in relief. Note the feet peeping out at the bottom (shown)
Lady similar to above but head is sunk in simple trefoil recess. Outside chancel
A Eure (ob 1664) tablet with inscriotioin in convex oval
Ann Rudgard (ob 1844) profile portrait

Wilsthorpe

St Faith

Knight ( c 1340) cross legged. This is not - as often claimed - a 17th century fake but an exceptionally interesting medieval figure, with the unique feature of having an inscription around the hem of the surcoat which is not only in Middle English but neither an epitaph nor a religious theme. It suggests he was either an early peace protester ot member of a local jousting society! In Modern English is reads: Peace is better than wars. (information from Dr Claude Blaire)

Many of the Sculptors and Artists do not have individual web sites devoted to them that I have yet found; I should be grateful for any information from visitors to this site for any that I am unaware of. The Courtauld Institute of Art produces an excellent data base which will give further information about these people as well as those with their own sites:

http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/index.html

This page is dedicated to Peter Fairweather, who was a Church Monuments Society member of long standing and a Lincoln resident, who kindly allowed me to use may of his photographs on this page and provided me with much information and advice.  Sadly Peter died in July 2006 after a long illness.
Thanks also to member Sally Badham for supplying further information about the monuments, especially the brasses. The drawings are from  Boutell's Christian Monuments