Country Church Monuments

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This well-preserved effigy shows a man in armour, his ridged bascinet resting on a pillow supported by angels. They show monuments in 365 churches, all of them in rural parishes or small towns (classified as those under ten thousand in population) outside the orbit of the M25. ST MARY’S CHURCH, SUFFOLK: ‘This very rare and beautiful altar retable from around 1330 is one of the most miraculous survivals of art of the English Middle Ages,’ declares Matthew.

From stunning Saxon sculpture to masterpieces of medieval woodcarving, the polychrome brilliance of Victorian interiors to the moving memorial legacies of two world wars and the oldest Easter bunnies depicted in medieval stonework, the book is billed as 'a remarkable window into English history'. The subjects and styles are so different as to be clearly by sculptors of different artistic cultures and times. Her prints and drawings of the nature she spots, mostly in her back garden in Rutland, but also in Norfolk and on the Cornish coast, are stylised and very beautiful: her birds, in particular, seem to fly even more fluidly than real birds, and her foxes slink more threateningly than even the slinkiest real fox. A happy bedfellow for Nicholas Pevsner -- Matthew Rice An enthralling testament to our ceaseless human striving for eternity -- Editor's Choice * Bookseller * Antiquarian CB Newham's book might seem more melancholy than merry. This book celebrates the various shades of light she sees in the morning, at noon, in the fading of day and at the dead of night.The oak effigy of Sir Robert du Bois at St Andrew, Fersfield, Norfolk, (below) retains most of its mid- fourteenth-century painted decoration. There’s one of the infant Stella sitting on Paul’s lap, as he plays a piano and composes another worldwide hit (possibly), that will squeeze the heart of every father of daughters. The figure has a restless attitude; the body sways to the right while his head is turned to the left. Frances Dirdoe is flanked by two of her sisters, Rebecca and Rachel, in a lovely relief carving on her monument at St Mary, Gillingham, Dorset (below) . It begins with an introduction that includes a short history of the development of church monuments from medieval times to the modern era.

Here’s the latest — the 11th, no less — in Hoxton Mini Press’s superb series of books of photographs of Brits enjoying themselves through the ages. Claire Walker, CEO of the National Churches Trust, said: 'With many church buildings under threat due to the ravages of time and with fewer worshippers to look after them, this book shows the importance of their art and architecture and why this needs to be preserved for future generations.But more moving are the countless others—minor aristocrats, small-time industrialists, much-loved mothers, fathers, and children—who, if not for their memorials, would wholly be lost to time. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. B. Newham has visited and photographed more than eight thousand rural churches, cataloguing the monumental sculptures encountered on his quest.

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. Heidi Klum reveals behind-the-scenes look of THAT Peacock Halloween costume (which took SIX HOURS to complete!Unlike the other items that one regularly encounters inside churches, such as fonts, stained glass and furnishings, monuments come in all shapes, sizes and ages; everything from humble wall tablets with just a name and date of death to huge vainglorious piles of marble with lengthy inscriptions extolling the virtues of those commemorated. Newham's pictures are a revelation -- Christopher Howse * Telegraph * This is a true labour of love and one of the most wonderful books I have ever seen -- Marcus Berkmann * Daily Mail * A tour de force. This one anatomises the British picnic, with pictures of people eating white bread sandwiches in fields and car parks from 1900 onwards.

Originally in a local abbey church, it was lost in the Reformation, found again and donated here for its original purpose in 1927. He has a prodigious wealth of knowledge about English and Welsh parish churches, is director of the Parish Church Photographic Survey and has an archive of more than half a million photographs to draw on, the product of visits to nearly nine thousand churches.

MAFS UK viewers SHOCKED after Thomas and Roz engage in X-rated shenanigans during group dinner party: 'He's turned into Mr Grey! They explain in their introduction that ‘unlike most photo books, emotions are its organising principle’, and I think it’s fair to say that anyone still in touch with their inner five-year-old will be blown away by what they have accomplished.