English Church Monuments

Friday, 26 July 2019

Signed Church Monuments in Kent by Rupert Gunnis

Signed Church Monuments in Kent

by Rupert Gunnis

A useful little directory

https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/archcant/1950%2062%20Signed%20Monuments%20in%20Kentish%20Churches%20Gunnis_1.pdf

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Monument to Lord Brome.

Edward Hodges Baily, R.A. 1788-1867.

St Nicholas Church, Linton, Kent

Rupert Gunnis says:

"Kent is fortunate in possessing one of this sculptor's most beautiful works. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the figure of Lord Brome (d. 1835) at Linton is Baily's monumental master piece. It can, in its way, bear comparison with the superb figure of Guidarello Guklarelli at Ravenna. The youthful figure of Lord Brome lies on a couch, his eyes just closed in death. The monument is simple and untheatrical, and as one looks at it, one understands the calm and peace and repose of death.

Baily's Lady Cornwallis in the same Church, also a semi-recumbent, full-length figure is not so successful".

Monday, 1 July 2019

An anonymous monument in Clonagam, County Waterford, Ireland

An Anonymous and most Unusual Monument to Marcus Beresford

and Catherine Baroness le Poer.

c.1770.

in the Church at Clonagam, County Waterford, Ireland.

I have taken the liberty of lifting these photographs from the very excellent blog

The Irish Aesthete

https://theirishaesthete.com/2019/07/01/curraghmore-church/

To the Memory of Marcus Beresford, Earl, and Viscount of Tyrone, Baron Beresford, and Baronet who departed this life on the 4th of April 1763 in the 69th year of his Age, and of Catherine, Baroness Le Poer in Fee, his Countess, Daughter and Heiress to James Power, Earl of Tyrone, Viscount Decies, and Baron Le Poer, who dyed in the 68th year of her Age on the 16th of July 1769 this Monument is Erected by their Son, George de la Poer Beresford, Marquis of Waterford, in Testimony of his Duty, Gratitude and Affection.

In front of a polished limestone pyramid, the white marble monument features portrait busts of the couple, similar to those seen in Imperial Roman tombs,