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click photo to enlarge "His means of death, his obscure funeral - No trophy, sword nor hatchment o'er his bones" said by ...

click photo to enlarge Sometimes, when my wife and I are visiting a church, a particular memorial catches our eye. It may be its modest...

click photo to enlarge Thomas Thornycroft (1815-1885) and Mary Thornycroft (neé Francis) (1814-1895), were husband and wife sculptors. ...

click photo to enlarge Recently I posted a photograph of a gravestone that I described as "ordinary". Probably the most intere...

click photo to enlarge I visit a lot of churches and churchyards and see many gravestones and memorials. In Britain the earliest in paris...

click photo to enlarge The gravestones, tomb slabs and funerary monuments of English churches range in date from the twelfth century to...

click photo to enlarge I've long been fascinated by the way that a word can fall out of use. In a blog post of  2009 I reflected on ...

click photo to enlarge Heraldic coats of arms as we know them today became common in Europe around the middle of the twelfth century. Th...

click photos to enlarge "Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original and...

click photo to enlarge First names, often called Christian names, originated in a number of ways. Many are simply descriptive. For examp...

click photo to enlarge It's well known that if you want to be a successful popular beat combo or even a solo artiste then you need to pe...

click photo to enlarge In a post a while ago I commented that anyone wanting to erect a permanent memorial to themselves could do worse...

click photo to enlarge The church of St Denys at Aswarby, Lincolnshire, has this fine memorial on the south wall of its nave. It records the...

click photo to enlarge I'd never visited March in Cambridgeshire until a couple of weeks ago. I knew of its church, St Wendreda, which h...

click photo to enlarge It is all too easy to imagine the zealots of the English Reformation rampaging through our churches, smashing the ...

click photo to enlarge One of the basic themes found in all forms of art is the pairing of unlikely bedfellows. The story of Beauty and The ...

click photo to enlarge "It's a funny old world - a man's lucky if he can get out of it alive." W.C. Fields (1880-1946), U....

click photo to enlarge I first came across the church of St Luke at Gaddesby, Leicestershire, a few years ago when holidaying in the area. T...

click photo to enlarge You wouldn't think of a church yard as a place to find humour, yet I can't pass a grave stone with the words ...

click photo to enlarge Is the personal quest for immortality through artefacts anything more than simple vanity? I can't see that it is....