MBS Meetings
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These days we have only two meetings a year, including our AGM, in London, but instead prefer to get out and about, holding the remainder of our meetings around the country, often in churches where we can study brasses, incised slabs and other monuments in their architectural context. Although these meetings are very popular with members, many are unable to attend. So, from Spring 2005 we we will providing picture reports of our meetings, to supplement the full written reports that appear in MBS Bulletin. To see these reports, click on the Past Events bar at the top of the page.
Proceedings start at 2pm, unless noted below. Entry is free and MBS members may
invite non-
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Saturday 21 July 2012
Details of the next AGM will appear here.
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2013 Conference
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Saturday 26 May 2012, North-
9.30a.m. from Lowestoft Station and 10.00a.m. from Darsham Station
Darsham, Yoxford, Halesworth and Sotterley
This Excursion to North Suffolk by vintage coach will provide an opportunity to view
27 brasses including the fine memorial to John Norwiche, 1428, at Yoxford and the
series of brasses to the Playters family at Sotterley. The latter church is one of
the most inaccessible in Suffolk with special permission having been obtained in
order to gain access. The day will conclude with afternoon tea in Sotterley Hall.
Full details will appear later. 
Saturday 31 March 2012 at 2pm
SOUTH MIMMS
The church is noted for its connections with members of the medieval Frowyk family of London and Middlesex who were lords of the manor for three centuries. The French inscription brass to Henry Frowyk,[1386], is the earliest surviving in the church. The important brass memorial to Thomas Frowyk, [1448], and his widow, Elizabeth, together with their six sons and thirteen daughters, has recently been moved to the North (Frowyk) Chapel. Attendees
will be given an opportunity to appreciate the church, view the Frowyk memorials together with a further six 17th century brasses and important canopy monuments of comparable date.
The visit will include a series of short talks as follows:
The Frowyk Family of Middlesex and London by Jessica Freeman
Henry Frowyk’s Foundation Stone at the Guildhall Chapel, London by Nick Holder
Commemoration of the Frowyks at South Mimms by Jon Bayliss
The Brasses of South Mimms by Derrick Chivers
Arrangements have also been made for access to the nearby church at Ridge.
The building contains a fine early 16th century military indent, a wall painting
of St. Christopher and other medieval features which are of interest.
St Margaret’s Ridge will be open between 11.30-
South Mimms Church is reasonably close to Potters Bar station on the line from King’s
Cross then catch Bus 84 to the White Hart Inn (a journey time of 7 minutes with a
service every 20 minutes). The postcode for the church for satellite navigation is EN6 3PN.
Ample parking is available.
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Thirteen daughters from the brass to Thomas Frowyk, [1448], and widow Elizabeth at South Mimms, Hertfordshire (Photo: Martin Stuchfield)
Two of the brasses at Sotterley : Thomas and Anne Playters, & John Bomstead (all d. 1479)
Saturday 22 September, Lydd, Kent
10.30 Coffee and registration
11.00 Welcome by the President of the Monumental Brass Society
11.05 Joan Campbell (Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust), The History of All Saints’ Church
11.30 Christian Liddy (University of Durham), Brasses for the Civic Elite: the case at Lydd
Viewing of the brasses and monuments and break for lunch (own arrangements)
2.00 Gill Draper (University of Kent), ‘My boddye shall lye with my name Engraven on it’:
remembering the Godfrey family of Lydd’ Kent
2.30 Sheila Sweetinburgh (University of Kent), Mayors and Monuments: the brasses and tombs of the Stuppeney family of Lydd and New Romney
3.00 Paul Cockerham (Vice-
brass of Grandfather Robert
3.30 Conclusion and Tea
A booking form with full details of the study day can be found here here.
John Thomas (d. 1439)
(Photo: Martin Stuchfield)