Monumental brasses of Gloucestershire
Appearance
About 80 ancient monumental brasses survive in Gloucestershire, many in the parish churches at Cirencester and Northleach. Many have been lost to theft over the ages. The first complete listing of brasses in Gloucestershire was made by Cecil T Davis who stated that they may be divided into three categories: ecclesiastical, military and civil.[1]
List of monumental brasses of Gloucestershire
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Image(Drawing/Rubbing;Photograph) | Date | Location | Name[1] |
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c. 1370 | Winterbourne | A lady of the Bradestone family | |
1396 | Temple Church, Bristol | Civilian, half-length | |
1400 | Deerhurst | Sir John Cassy (judicial costume) and wife Alice, with canopy | |
c. 1400 | Cirencester | Wine merchant(?) and wife Margaret, imperfect with canopy | |
c. 1400 | Northleach | John Taylour (wool merchant) and wife Joane | |
1401 | Chipping Campden | William Greville (civilian costume) and wife Marion, with canopy | |
c. 1411 | Trinity Church, Bristol | John Barstaple | |
c. 1411 | Trinity Church, Bristol | Isabella, wife of John Barstaple | |
1416 [2] | Dyrham | Maurice Russell, knight | |
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1417[3] | Wooton-under-Edge | Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley |
c. 1430 | Quinton | Joan Clopton (vowess) with canopy | |
1438 | Cirencester | Richard Dixton in armour, with canopy | |
1439 | St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol | Sir John Juyn in judicial costume | |
1440 | Cirencester | Robert Page in civilian costume and wife Margaret, 6 sons, 8 daughters with canopy | |
1442 | Cirencester | Reginald Spyeer in civilian costume and 4 wives: Margaret, Juliana, Margaret and Joan | |
c. 1445 | Newland | Man in armour and wife, imperfect, crest of "free miner" | |
1447 | Northleach | Thomas Fortey, imperfect, William Scors, both in civilian costume and their wife Agnes, head missing, with 2 groups of children and canopy, both imperfect | |
1450 | Chipping Campden | William Welley in civilian costume and wife Alice | |
c. 1450 | Lechlade | Wool merchant and wife | |
1459 | Northleach | John Fortey in civilian costume with canopy | |
c. 1460 | Temple Church, Bristol | A priest, palimpsest | |
1461 | St Peter's, Bristol | Robert Lond, chaplain | |
1461 | Rodmarton | John Edward in civilian costume | |
1462 | Cirencester | William Prelatte in armour and 2 wives Agnes and Joan | |
1467 | Chipping Campden | John Lethenard in civilian dress and wife Joan | |
c. 1470 | Cirencester | William Notyngham in civilian dress, imperfect, and wife Christine | |
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1491 | St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol | Richard Mede in tabard and 2 wives, to right Juliana/Anne Pauncefoot, left Elizabeth Sharp[4] |
1478 | St John's, Bristol | Thomas Rowley in civilian dress and wife Margaret | |
1478 | Cirencester | Ralph Parsons, priest | |
c. 1480 | St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol | John Jay, civilian, and wife Joan | |
c. 1480 | Cirencester | A priest | |
c. 1480 | Cirencester | Civilian and wife | |
1484 | Chipping Campden | William Gybbys, civilian and 3 wives: Alice, Margaret and Marion | |
c. 1485 | Mitcheldean | Wives of Thomas Baynham(d.1499/1500): (1)Margaret Hody (left) and (2)Alice Walwyn (right) | |
c. 1485 | Northleach | Woolman and wife | |
1493 | Tormarton | John Ceysyll, civilian | |
1497 | Cirencester | John Benet, civilian, imperfect, and wife Joan | |
1497 | Sevenhampton | John Camber, civilian | |
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1500 | Fairford | John Tame in armour and wife Alice |
c. 1500 | Cirencester | Civilian, imperfect, head restored | |
c. 1500 | Minchinhampton | Civilian and wife | |
1501 | Northleach | William Midwinter and his wife | |
1501 | Northleach | Robert Serche and his wife Anne | |
1526 | Northleach | Thomas Busshe and his wife Johane | |
1530 | Northleach | William Lander, priest | |
c. 1571 | Thornbury, Glos | Avice Tyndall | |
1505 | Olveston | Denys brass, Maurice Denys and son Sir Walter Denys, both in armour] | |
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c.1510 | Lechlade | John Twynyho (?) wool merchant |
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1534 | Fairford | Sir Edmund Tame I and wives (1)Agnes Greville, to his left (2)Elizabeth Tyringham, to his right |
References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- Davis, Cecil T. (1881-2) List of Monumental Brasses in Gloucestershire, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol. 6, Transactions at Gloucester.
- Davis, Cecil T. (1899) The Monumental Brasses of Gloucestershire.
- Lack, William; Stuchfield, H. Martin; Whittemore, Philip (2005). The Monumental Brasses of Gloucestershire. Monumental Brass Society County Series. London: Monumental Brass Society. ISBN 9780954327125.