Excursion to South Yorkshire - July 18th 2009

Starting from Doncaster station at 10.30 am and led by Patrick Farman and Peter Hacker the excursion will visit: 

Tickets are £20 (£25 for non CMS members). Please make cheques payable to The Church Monuments Society and sent to Mr Patrick Farman, 4 Hollins Cresent, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG1 2JG (01423 567968)
hollins4@uwclub.net

AGM - 2009

This will take place Saturday, September 19th 2009 at 2.00 pm in St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, London. For a map, details of the church and further links click here. The nearest underground station is King's Cross and St Pancras, served by the Victoria, Northern, Central, Metropolitan, Circle and Piccadilly Lines. This year will be the 30th anniversary of the Society and Council Member Simon Watney will talk on The Origins and Aims of the Church Membership Society. There is no charge and all members very welcome.

 Excursion to North West Norfolk
Saturday October 17th 2009

This excursion will be led by Dr Julian Litten,Vice President of the Society. The churches to be visited will include Narborough, which contains a late 13th century effigial monument and a series of monuments to the Spelman family from 1496 to 1679, including an exceptionally fine brass of 1545, a double-effigy tomb of 1607 and a curious standing wall monument of 1676 by William Wilson to Clement Spelman. From there we go to West Acre, the burial place of the Barkham-Hammonds since 1628, containing provincial monuments to the family through to the early 20th Century,including a massive monument to Anthony Hammond (d. 1744) by Joseph Theakson. After lunch at Swaffham we go to West Dereham to see the fascinating monument by Robert Singleton to Col Edmund Soame (d. 1706), and thence to Stowe Bardolph, with an impressive series of monuments to the Hare family from 1557 to the present day, including works by Scheemakers, Macdonald and William Theed, and a rather unusual monument to Sarah Hare (d. 1744)

Tickets are £20 (£25 for non-CMS members) each and cheques, made payable to The Church Monuments Society, should be sent to Dr Julian Litten, Friarscot, Church Street, King's Lynn, Norfolk PE30 5EB. (01553 766643)

 Symposium 2010 - Making Monuments

This will take place in the City of Winchester . Click here for photographs of monuments in Hampshire - mainly Winchester at the moment.

Excursion to Oxfordshire - 2010

This excursion has not yet been finalised; further details will be posted as soon as they become available. It will take place in late April.

Excursion to Lydiard Tregoze - 2010

 This excursion has not yet been finalised; further details will be posted as soon as they become available. It will take place in the summer.

Excursion to Cambridgeshire

Late 17th Century Monuments

Autumn 2010

This will probably take place in the autumn but details have not yet been finalised. Provisionally we will start at Cambridge station and from there take a coach to Babraham, where St Peter's Church contains the enigmatic Bushnell monument to Richard (ob 1658) and Sir Thomas Bennet (ob 1667) as well as the small monument by Stanton to Judith Bennet (ob 1713) and a Gothick mural monument of 1802 by Henry Hopper to General Adene. Then to Haslingfield where All Saints Church contains a wealth of tombs and some funerary achievements to the Wendy family of Haslingfield Hall, including a fine standing figure of 1673 to Sir Thomas Wendy, probably by William Stanton. Then to Bassingbourne where SS Peter and Paul's church contains a large brass to the Turpin family (1683) and an unusual bas-relief shrouded effigy in white marble to Henry Buller (ob 1647). Finally to Longstowe where the Victorian St Mary's church - in the grounds of Longstowe Hall - contains a number of monuments to the Cage and Bovey families removed from the  former St Mary's, that of Sir Ralph Bovey (ob 1679) depicting the deceased rising up from his grave and grasping an anchor let down from the sky.

Future Events

It is expected that the Symposium in 2012 will be in South Wales