Monumental brasses on the internet: Part 1
For a brief guide to funeral monuments,
click here
For general information about monumental brasses, see the
Monumental Brass Society web site.
There is an online list of brass rubbings in the
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. [not available, 20 June 2019]
An index to these has been compiled by
Julian Goodwyn.
The web site of The County Series:
a series of fully illustrated guides to the monumental brasses of the British Isles, by
William Lack, H. Martin Stuchfield and Philip Whittemore.
There is also an online
Topographical index
to Monumental Brass Society Transactions, Bulletins and Portfolios 1887-2016,
compiled by William Lack (PDF format).
Links to some images and descriptions of monumental brasses on the internet
Contents:
Individual brasses
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Anonymous civilian and wife, c.1490, Brown Candover, Hants
(Tudor Dress, Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont)
Image, from Henry Trivick's The Picture Book of Brasses in Gilt (1971)
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Anonymous civilian Lady, c.1540, Little Walsingham, Norfolk
(Tudor Dress, Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont)
Image, from Henry Trivick's The Picture Book of Brasses in Gilt (1971)
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Robert Attelath, 1376, King's Lynn, Norfolk
(
Mapping Margery Kempe, College of the Holy Cross)
Lost brass, from John Sell Cotman's Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk (1838)
- William, Viscount Beaumont and Lord Bardolf [1507] Wivenhoe, Essex (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) [not available, 20 June 2019]
Image of a rubbing
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Thomas Lord Berkeley and his wife Margaret, 1392, Wooton-Under-Edge
(Dave Berkeley)
Image of a rubbing
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Elizabeth Broughton, 1525, Chenies, Buckinghamshire
(Tudor Dress, Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont)
Image, from Henry Trivick's The Picture Book of Brasses in Gilt (1971)
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Walter Coney, 1476, King's Lynn, Norfolk
(
Mapping Margery Kempe, College of the Holy Cross)
Lost brass, from William Taylor, The Antiquities of King's Lynn (London, 1844)
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Sir John and Lady Alyne de Creke, 1325, Westley Waterless, Cambridgeshire (Michael W. Cook) [not available, 19 June 2022; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from January 2020]
Photographs and description
- Edmond Howton of Wormley, Annes, his wife, and children 1479, Wormley, Hertfordshire (Michael Milsom)
Image of a drawing.
- Jeffrey Jocelin (or Joslyne) and his two wives, 1470, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire (Great St Mary's Church)
Photograph, with an experiment in "virtual brass-rubbing". The site also has a List of brasses in the church.
- Robert
Knolles and his wife Elizabeth, 1458,
North Mymms, Hertfordshire (Brookmans Park Newsletter)
Photographs and description
- Margaret Moundeford, 1520, Feltwell, Norfolk (A.J. Orange, Feltwell Village History)
Image of a rubbing; there is also a brief description of this and other brasses in the church.
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Elizabeth Payne, c.1528
(Tudor Dress, Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont)
Image, from Henry Trivick's The Picture Book of Brasses in Gilt (1971)
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Thomas Pownder and wife, c. 1525, Christchurch Mansion Museum, Ipswich, Suffolk
(Tudor Dress, Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont)
Detail; image from Malcolm Norris' Monumental Brasses: the Craft (1978)
- Richard Ruston, rector 1457, Wormley, Hertfordshire (Michael Milsom)
Image of a drawing of a lost brass.
- Walter and Angelette Tooke and children c. 1590, Wormley, Hertfordshire (Michael Milsom)
Image of a drawing.
Collections
This site
The following images were kindly provided by Sally Badham,
of the Monumental Brass Society,
whose web site includes many more images of brasses.
The following image was generously provided by Bob Thornton,
and is reproduced by kind permission of St Nicholas's Cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne.
- Roger and Agnes Thornton (1441): St Nicholas's Cathedral
(formerly at All Saints), Newcastle upon Tyne
(rubbing and commentary)
