North chapel #StDecumanWatchet #Somerset for #MemorialMonday The problem with family chapels is they just keep filling up and some people have no sense of proportion. Various memorials to the Wyndham family. Whatever the origin of the name, Mouse still thinks windy village

Wyndham (north) chapel #StDecumanWatchet #Somerset for #MemorialMonday With everything so squished in it's hard to do these memorials full justice, particularly as Mouse seem to have clumsy paws today

Holding hands for all time. Romance is not dead even if we are. (Winterbourne Bassett) C13 tomb of possibly Hugh Despenser and Aline Basset.

Wyndham (north) chapel #StDecumanWatchet #Somerset for #MemorialMonday Very fine chest tomb very badly photographed by Mouse

St Leonard’s - The Fairfax Lucy family Church next to Charlecote Park

This lovely little gravestone in Harvard Square is very old for Massachusetts. Very few gravestones were made here before 1675, and most of them are like this — mostly text with a few small embellishments. Sarah Hastings, died 1673, age 34

Little brass inlay. You really do have to keep your eyes peeled when you're #ChurchChomping #StDecumanWatchet #Somerset for #MemorialMonday

On Wednesday 26 Nov we hope to have a hybrid event on modern sculpture with the MMT - £5, online or in person in Cowcross Street, London. Book via the MMT site at www.mmtrust.org.uk/events.php (scroll down to book to attend online)

Wyndham (north) chapel #StDecumanWatchet #Somerset for #MemorialMonday and #MementoMoriMonday Overseen by a seemingly winged skull, these two are clinging on for dear life it appears. Some say theses figures are malleable, they're like putti in your hands

After last Saturday's Renaissance splendour - join us next Saturday to look at the humbler granite and slate monuments of west and north Devon churchmonumentssociety.org/events/grani... Free but you need to book - click the link to go to the Eventbrite page.

Here lieth Inter'd the Body, of JOHN NICCOLL: who unfor- tunatily lost his life by a fall from his cart: the 10th of November 1790 Aged 39 Years Also near the same place lieth the Body of his Son JOSEPH who Departed this life: the 25th October 178? Aged 4 Years Old Burying Ground

#mementomorimonday St George Newbold Pacey

John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter, and his wife Ann atop their imposing 1704 memorial in St Martin, Stamford. They're dressed as wealthy Romans, and indeed their memorial was made in Rome by the sculptor Monnot. Pevsner thought them 'comfortable and at ease'. 1/3 #MemorialsMonday #MonumentsMonday

Hofkirche in Innsbruck. Tomb of Maximilian, surrounded by larger than life-size statues. #MementoMori #Innsbruck #MaximilianI

The beautiful Bohun swans at the feet of Margaret, wife of Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon (1303–1377), south transept, Exeter Cathedral. His feet rest on a lion. #MonumentsMonday #exetercathedral

Although this unknown lady of c.1400 at St John the Baptist, Barnack is now much damaged enough still remains to show how beautifully carved it was. Her headress and the plaited hair beneath it is shown in such stunning detail. #MonumentsMonday

📢 Invitation to tender: we are inviting tenders for a consultancy to advise on the replacement of our current collections management system for archives and manuscripts. Deadline for applications: Closing date: 23:00, Thursday 27th November 2025 www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/about-lambet...

St Mary’s Church, Longworth, Oxfordshire. #memorialMonday

It's #MementoMoriMonday - we spotted this beauty in the churchyard at St Lawrence, Edgware, at our annual study day and AGM last month

Past and presence marked by stone and wood on the wide, open plains. Wirrabara Cemetery, South Australia. © 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓖𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽. #cemetery #cemeteries #grave #graves #gravestone #graveyard #taphophile #gardensofthesilent #southaustralia #photography #cemeteryphotography

Actually, no, it's this one (never type while cooking tea).

In Memory of JAMES & GEORGE FREDERICK BOYD Sons of JOHN & ELIZABETH BOYD, who Departed this life JAMES the 9th Nov'r 1792 Aged 4 Months Also GEORGE FREDERICK, the 27th Oct'r 1795 Aged 2 Years Old Burying Ground

Gravestone of Esther Corwin and her infant child, who both died in 1797, probably in childbirth. Located at Plains Cemetery in Franklin, Connecticut, and carved by the Manning family.

Now that's what I call news.

We remember them today. This is Y Ravine cemetery in Beaumont-Hamel. Only a third of the men buried here were identified, as many were not reclaimed from the Somme until long after the fighting had ceased. Heroes, every one of them.

Autumn at Wardsend. A short video taken after this morning's volunteer session.

I forgot to take a team photo at our volunteer session so here's a last minute half-team photo! Thanks everyone Tasks included continuing to clear the front bank, removing ivy from memorials and litter picking. We were very lucky with the weather. Wardsend always looks lovely in the Autumn sunshine.

Armoiries de la ville de Nancy, sculptées par Auguste #Rodin, avec le concours de Jules Desbois, Victor Peter et Jean Escoula. Photos couleurs : © Marc Baronnet @baronnet.bsky.social MMXXV. www.francebleu.fr/emissions/c-...

Good day all. In the forground, the Prunus 'Kiku-shidare-zakura' cherry tree with its autumn leaf colour. Planted in celebration of the coronation of King Charles III on 6th May 2023.

This is disgusting and disturbing. They can complain all they want but the Battlefield Commission didn’t have to act on it! #shame

Does anyone know if any names have been added yet to Bradley Stoke's memorial to those that will die in future wars? It's been more than 10 years and UK soldiers haven't stopped dying www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/168...

4/5 Arthur Page's grave amongst those of his comrades in Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval on the Somme. 'Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?' - Wilfred Owen 📷Dave Cole

“Sacred to the memory of Frederick Matthias a native of the Kingdom of Prussia who departed this life in joyful hope of a blisful immortality November 9th 1826 Aged 42 years." Methodist Burying Ground

Nether Winchendon roll of honour. St. Nicholas Church, Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. First World War. #LestWeForget

In Memoriam - Remembrance Sunday 2025 - Compton The carved inscription on the monument reads: 'In honoured memory of the men of Compton who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. "Through the ages one clear flame of sacrifice has burned, and by its light men see god."'

We will remember them. In our churches, there are many reminders of tragic toll of the First World War. On the altar at St Beuno's, Penmorfa in Gwynedd is a simple cross that was carved by Emile de Vynck, a refugee from Belgium, who luckily escaped the conflict on the Continent.

#LestWeForget #StainedGlassSunday Memorial window, by #DouglasStrachan in Morrison’s Academy, Crieff. Photos of just a few of the FPs who died.

St Peter and St Paul Church, Eastham, Worcestershire. #stoneworkSunday

Ashwellthorpe hentut. Land of the Knyvetts and Thorps.

This #FrescoFriday we travel to the tomb of Gaius Vestorius Priscus, Pompeii. This scene is part the inner west wall of the tomb and depicts gladiators squaring off. It seems reasonable to suppose this fresco captures a fight held in honour of the departed Gaius Vestorius Priscus.

Here’s what we got on the other side of the peak.

Sitting in a graveyard, waiting to see if the light will shift so I can get a good photo of Seeth Andrews’ gravestone. Due to trees, buildings, and weather, there is a 10-minute window on late autumn days if it’s not cloudy.

Gravestone of Earl Cooley, who died “by a casual Blow in a well” in 1809. Carved by John Ely, and located in Springfield Cemetery in Springfield, Mass. And to clarify, “casual” in this context means “accidental,” and the “blow” was from a mallet that fell on his head while he was digging a well.

I love this lion’s tail on the Feilding monument carved by Garrat Hollemans (1580) at Monks Kirby, Warwickshire.

Still time to register for tomorrow's FREE lecture putting this gorgeous Renaissance tomb in context - go to www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-tomb-fun... to book.

Time for some of Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset. The bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share during the week: #ThingsThatMakeMouseGoHmm. The other side of the tomb and a blocked aperture with label above. If only Mouse had her tape measure

Time for some of Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset. The bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share during the week: Grave marker on its own little podium adjacent to the small slit light in the eastern end of the south porch

A misty Autumn day at Wardsend. Photo from November 2017.

Dumbleton war memorial. Dumbleton, Gloucestershire. First World War. #LestWeForget