Country Church Monuments

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In her introduction, Lucy Davies admits that her picnic de choix would be the one with Cecil Beaton and his elegant chums in the Wiltshire Downs in 1935, but as you look through the book, you may decide (as I did) that the ordinary families picnicking anywhere they can find (on a wall, on the beach, on a roadside verge, above) look rather more fun. Vibrant paintings were originally common across walls and screens in churches but were largely destroyed and whitewashed in the Reformation. No truer words express the sentiment behind CB Newham’s tour de force Country Church Monuments, a study of funerary monuments, the underappreciated and overlooked treasure of our nation’s parish churches.Alice de la Pole’s monument at St Mary the Virgin, Ewelme, Oxfordshire, (above) is one of the finest medieval tombs outside the metropolis. The 365 examples chosen for full-page illustration and commentary here are the clotted cream of the milk of human mortality. A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and Wales.

The cadaver’s heavy-lidded eyes rest upon painted images of the Annunciation and her favourite saints, St John the Baptist and St Mary Magdalene.Ugaz’s case is all too familiar in Peru, where powerful groups regularly use the courts to silence journalists by fabricating criminal allegations against them. All ten previous volumes (which include Dog Show 1961-1978 and Butlin’s Holiday Camp 1982) are worth a look, but this is one of the best. These artworks - medieval brasses and elegant marble effigies, stone tomb chests and grand mausoleums - are of great.

In 'Country Church Monuments', he presents 365 of the very best, each accompanied by detailed photographs, biographies of both the deceased and their sculptors and a wealth of contextual material. Anyway, here are photographs from his family’s weddings, his friends’ weddings and not a few Royal weddings.A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, he is Director of The Digital Atlas of England, a complete photographic record of English’s parish churches. Newham has visited 9,000 country churches in the past few years for his stupendous project of photographing every rural church in England. Tombs with effigies can show us the clothes or armour of particular eras for which real examples no longer exist. In life she was the most powerful woman in the country bar the queen, but here she is reduced to a rotting corpse: What you are, I was; what I am, you will be. The military effigy at All Saints, Clehonger, Herefordshire (right) probably represents Sir Richard de Pembrugge, briefly a Member of Parliament who resided at Clehonger Manor in the first half of the 14th century.

Celtic crosses frequently had a circular piece surrounding the intersection of the vertical shaft and the shorter cross pieces – these are the “wheelhead” crosses. neck in semi-darkness to discern the contours of an effigy lying at eye level can appreciate, even if they cannot explain, the expertise of Cameron Newham's technique.

On top of a tomb chest lies the Duchess of Suffolk as in life, her heavy-jawed face possibly an attempt at portraiture — rare for such an early period. The remains of these are particularly rare and fragmentary as during the Reformation it was easy to obliterate them under a coat of whitewash. Here he is leaning on his hands, drinking a glass of water and generally looking beautiful, which was his number two job after singing all those amazing songs.