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Excursion
to South Yorkshire - July 18th 2009
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Starting
from Doncaster station at 10.30 am and led by Patrick
Farman and Peter Hacker the excursion will visit:
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Owston
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A
fine brass of 1409 and two good monuments
by Chantry of 1820 and 1830. Coffee
will be served.
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Hickleton
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The
monuments include a recently discovered
semi-effigial slab of c. 1300, monuments
to the 1st Viscount Halifax by Burton
1885, and the 2nd Viscountess by Reed
1919, and a memorial to the architect
G F Bodley (1907)
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Wentworth
Old Church
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Monuments
to the Earl of Strafford (executed by the
Long Parliament 1641), his son (1685), his
parent Sir William and Lady Wentworth (1614)
and his grandparents Thomas Wentworth and
Wife (1587) Lunch can be found in oone of
the local hostelries.
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Sprotbrough
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Effigy
of a knight of the late 13th centruy and
a lady of the mid 14th century, incised
slabs of 1482 and 1577, and a fine brass
of 1474. Tea will be served
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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
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AGM
- 2009
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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.
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Excursion
to North West Norfolk Saturday October 17th 2009
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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)
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08.45
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Train
from King's Cross to Downham Market
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10.04
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Arrive
at Downham Market and transfer to Eagle
Coaches
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10.15
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Depart
Downham Market for Narborough
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10.45
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Visit
Narborough, All Saints
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11.30
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Depart
Narborough for West Acre.
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11.45
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Visit
West Acre, All Saints
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12.30
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Depart
West Acre for Swaffham
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13.00
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Lunch
at Swaffham - please make own arrangements
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14.10
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Depart
Swaffham for West Dereham.
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14.45
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Visit
West Dereham, St Andrew
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15.30
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Depart
West Dereham for Stowe Bardolph
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15.45
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Visit
Stowe Bardolph, Holy Trinity
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16.45
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Depart
Stowe Bardolph for Downham Market Railway
Station
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17.09
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Train
form Downham Market to London
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18.34
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Arrive
at London, King's Cross
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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)
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of Winchester . Click here
for photographs of monuments in Hampshire - mainly Winchester
at the moment.
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Excursion
to Oxfordshire - 2010
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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.
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Excursion
to Lydiard Tregoze - 2010
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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.
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Excursion
to Cambridgeshire
Late
17th Century Monuments
Autumn
2010
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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.
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Future
Events
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It is expected that the Symposium in 2012 will
be in South Wales
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