An owl looks down from an Imposing white marble monument in Durham Cathedral. Matthew Woodifield (1758-1826). was a land agent who administered Cathedral lands. #MonumentsMonday#owlishmonday
An owl looks down from an Imposing white marble monument in Durham Cathedral. Matthew Woodifield (1758-1826). was a land agent who administered Cathedral lands. #MonumentsMonday#owlishmonday
Sir John Pole (d 1658) confined amongst the columns if the mini-temple that is his monument in St Andrew’s, Colyton, Devon. His large ruff was out if fashion long before the time of his death. #MonumentsMonday#MementoMoriMonday
Durham Cathedral A much mutilated effigy of John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville of Raby (d1388), on a once magnificent tomb he shares with his first wife, Maud Percy (d.1379) #MonumentsMonday
The elaborate tomb of Prince Bishop Thomas Hatfield, (d1381) in Durham Cathedral @durhamcathedral Bishop Hatfield fought at the Battle of Crecy + a wealthy courtier. He built Durham House in London — later SirWalter Raleigh’s home. #MonumentsMonday
Ornate marble monument to Sir John Wynne and his wife Sidney in the Gwydir Chapel, St Grwst's Church, Llanrwst #MementoMoriMonday#MonumentsMonday
Traces of colour survive on memorial to Alexander Stanton (d.1620) who clutches a skull in St Faith’s, Bacton, while his wife, Rachel Hopton ( remarried and d.1663, aged 85) carries a book . #MementoMoriMonday#MonumentsMonday
St Michael’s Cornwood, Devon Philip Cole of Slade (d1596) + wife Joane (d1633), with shadowy figures of Philip’s parents behind. His mother, Elizabeth, Katherine Raleigh’s sister, is Eliza in my novel “A Woman of Noble Wit.” #MonumentsMonday
Monument to Dorothy Snell (born 1710, married 1737, died 1740) in St Mary le Crypt, Gloucester. 2 sons and 1 daughter survived her and she was “Obedient, Faithful, Affectionate, Sincere, Benovolent and Charitable” #MonumentsMonday
