The
Church
Monuments
Society

              

Monuments

 

 


The links below will list churches, cathedrals, chapels and other sites both in Britain and in France, which contain interesting collections of monuments or, in some cases, one outstanding monument. For Britain the list is given by county but, for ease of reference, the "old" counties, set in stone by Pevsner, will be used. Photographs and brief notes are given of the monuments and, in some cases, links to the websites (which may be the actual church web site) where further details may be found, often including further photographs of the monuments. I will also add links to web sites about the various scuptors and the commemorated. This list is by no means comprehensive and the reader is refered to Pevner's
Buildings of England from which may be obtain as complete a list as is available anywhere.

Click on the link below to access the relevant page.

Note that this work is forever "in progress" and more monuments will be added as time goes on. I will upload a county before I have by any means completed it but when I feel there is sufficient material to be of interest. If you think there are any omissions or errors please e-mail the Society

Berkshire (new text 26-06-07) (this page was begun for the 2007 Study Day at Aldworth; more information will be added progressively)
Cambridgeshire (new material 02-10-07)
Cheshire (under construction)
Dorset
Devon (additions and corrections to text 28-07-07) (progressing if slowly!)
Essex (in progess....)
Gloucestershire  (new material 21-10-07)
 Hampshire (under construction)
Kent (new photographs 18-06-07)
Leicestershire  
Lincolnshire
  (1 church added - 2 monuments 30-08-07)
London (new material 26-06-07)
Norfolk
(new material 02-10-07)
Oxfordshire (will start shortly)

Somerset - including Bristol (new material  - Lord Mayor's Chapel -16-10-07 ) 
Suffolk (will start shortly)
Surrey (under construction)
Warwickshire (new material 11-09-07)
Wiltshire (only one photograph at the moment)

Worcestershire (a start with photographs and etchings)
Yorkshire: East Riding     
                                                        
 
Yorkshire: NorthRiding (illustrations of medieval monuments only for the time being)        
Westmoreland (under construction - a few photographs only) 
                                         
  
Scotland (beginning only)
                
Wales  (new 03-02-07) (two churches only - St David's Cathedral & Abergavenny Priory but lots of potographs, mainly medieval)
   
 
France (new material 16-07-07) (beginning only)
Europe (new: 03-07-07) (a small collection of photographs taken in the Low Countries and Germany by Dr John Physick)

Future Projects: . I will resume work on the Somerset & Bristol page next spring and hope to complete it in time for the symposium in the summer of that year. After that I will add more material to Worcester Cathedral, in preparation for the study day there, and work on the Hampshire page (not yet uploaded), which will include Winchester Cathedral initially, in time for the symposium of 2010.