Church brass

A Brief History of Monumental Brasses

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History of monumental brasses. Other pages on the site discuss clothing and armour depicted on brass monuments. Site sells equipment for brass rubbing.

A manual of costume as illustrated by monumental brasses ([1907])

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The aim of this book is to give, as far as possible, a straight-forward account of the costume to be found represented on that large class of sepulchral memorials known as Monumental Brasses.
 
This is a link to the Internet Archive's collection in PDF, Text, and Kindle formats.
 
 

Children and Monuments from the late medieval period to the 17th century.

Monuments or memorials to children in English churches were extremely rare until the late 18th and early 19th century. In the 16th century one can find the occassional child tomb amongst the aristocracy, such as that of the The Noble Impe at St Mary's Warwick, but otherwise children do not appear to have warranted memorials in their own right.

Monumental Brass Society

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The Society for those interested in any aspect of monumental brasses and incised slabs of all dates in all countries.

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