15th century church monuments
In the 15th century (c. 1400–1500), church monuments, primarily effigial tombs and brasses, were the dominant form of commemorative art in parish churches and cathedrals. They reflected social status, piety, and late medieval chivalric culture, with a shift toward realism and personal expression.
The church monuments of this period were lavish, symbolic, and hierarchical, alabaster knights and brass merchants prayed eternally in stone, blending faith, family pride, and fear of death.
Brasses
John Mulsho (d1400) and wife - Geddington, Northamptonshire
Brass to William Bagot (1407). St. John the Baptist, Baginton, Warwickshire.
John Cressy (d1414) and wife. Dodford, Northamptonshire.
William Wylde (d1422) and wife. Dodford Northamptonshire.
Brass to William Chichele (1425) and wife. St. Mary, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire.
Monument to John Tawyer (d1470) and wife. St. Peter, Raunds, Northamptonshire.
Brass monument to Helyn Hardy (d1486). St. Andrew - Lyddington Rutland.
Henry Denton (d1498). Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire.
Memorial to a Lady (c1500). St. Peter, Raunds, Northamptonshire.
Tomb chests and Effigies
Cardinal Jean de la Grange (d1402). Amiens Cathedral, France.
Unidentified 15th century knight and lady - Lutterworth, Leicestershire.
Tomb of William de Roos (d1414) - Bottesford Leicestershire.
Richard de Beauchamp (d1421). Tewkesbury Abbey.
Louis of Luxemboug (d1443). Ely cathedral, Cambridgeshire.
Tomb of John Dycson rector from 1439 to 1445 of Yelvertoft Northamptonshire.
Richard de Beauchamp (d1439), 13th earl of Warwick.
John Cressy (d1445). Dodford Northamptonshire.
Effigy of priest (c1450) in vestments for saying mass
Monument to Agnes Sorel (d1450). Loches, France.
'Wakeham' Cenotaph - Tewkesbury Abbey.
Robert Hungerford (d1464). Salisbury Cathedral.
Bishop Ferry de Beauvoir (d1473). Amiens Cathedral France.
Bishop John Stanbury (d1474). Hereford Cathedral.
Tomb of John Wales (d1496) vicar. Raunds, Northamptonshire.
Lord John Cheney (d1499) - Salisbury Cathedral.