St John the Baptist, Stowe by Chartley.
Here lieth the body of Thomas Harding
who departed this life
July the 20 1762 Aged 62
Humphrey HILL
Of Chartley, 27 April 1759, 63
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A 1907 headstone at Rushmere, Suffolk with a machine gun bullet through it. Not something you see every day. 1/2
Rushmere: suffolkchurches.co.uk/rushmerestmi.h…
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Two of six curious/strange/beautiful/kitch (delete according to personal taste) painted plaster musical angels either side of marble memorial. Chancel wall #StMichaelWilsford #MemorialMonday #MementoMoriMonday
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This beauty from Shankill Graveyard #Belfast Shankill from Seanchill, meaning “old church”
Thought to be site of the medieval church. A bullaun stone from the graveyard is mortared to a plinth outside of St Mathews CoI.
#explorechurches
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Perhaps the sun and its rays on the upper part, and the fall of death below,
St Andrews Cathedral, #Fife
The walls of the church of #StMichaelWilsford are adorned with small highly polished sconces that are really very fetching. One seen here with two of many memorials #MemorialMonday #MementoMoriMonday
#MementoMoriMonday This lair in Greyfriars Kirkyard filled up fairly quickly. Three children died in the 1830s, wife in 1844 and, according to the burial register in the OPRs, two infant children of surviving daughter were buried there in 1841 and 42. The British Newspaper Archive
It’s the juxtapositions that make Rosslyn Chapel so beguiling. An angel strums right next to a skull vomiting tendrils. Eternal song and eternal rotting living cheek by jowl. Twas ever thus. #MementoMoriMonday
A great discovery this week in Oxfam Haddington
From the authors' introduction: 'Our pleasure has not been in death, but in the evocation of the living past; in the arousal of curiosity and the satisfaction of deciphering the symbols.' #MementoMoriMonday
The tomb of Pope Alexander VII (by Bernini) in St Peter's Basilica depicts the pope in prayer and four female allegorical figures: Charity, Truth, Prudence and Justice.
Death is portrayed as a winged skeleton holding an hourglass.
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St Fillan’s Chapel and burial ground in the shadow of Dundurn #Pictish hillfort, #Perthshire #Scotland
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Last 📸 🪦1729, Catherine Dwar - more detail can be seen in Betty Willsher’s photos on Canmore👇
canmore.org.uk/collection/226…
