Events

• AGM at St Mary's, Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey

  Saturday, 11th July 2026

  The Annual General Meeting will take place in the Hall room in the morning at 11.00a.m. The General Meeting, which is free and open to all, will start in the church at 1.30p.m. Please note the earlier time. We will hear talks from local historian Stephen Chater about the church building, and from our Vice-President Nigel Saul about the brasses. There will be an opportunity to view the church and the brasses during tea.

  The church contains two of England’s finest and earliest military brasses, for Sir John d’Abernon, d.1327 (with considerable remains of original enamel on the shield) and for his son, another Sir John. There are also several later brasses, an incised inscription in Lombardic letters for Richard le Petit, dated c.1280-1305, and many other points of interest.

  The church shares the site with Parkside School. The postcode for satellite navigation is KT11 3PX. Local car parking is available. The nearest station is Cobham & Stoke d’Abernon (on the Surbiton to Guildford line from London Waterloo), just under a mile from the church. Turn right out of the station and walk along Station Road until you reach a T Junction with Stoke Road. Turn right and walk over the railway bridge, past the Chelsea F.C. Training Ground entrance on the right and then, opposite the Garden Centre, turn right into the entrance of Parkside School. Walk down the drive and then turn left. The church is to the right of the main school buildings.

  Squire’s Garden Centre nearby does lunches, for those with cars, but members may prefer to bring their own lunch. If you plan to attend, please email Caroline Metcalfe, events@mbs-brasses.co.uk so that she knows how much cake to bake!

• St Olave Hart Street, London

  Saturday, 12th September 2026

  General Meeting 2 pm

  This meeting will include talks by our Vice-President Nicholas Rogers 'But the plates of memory are gone': visualising the church of St. Olave Hart Street on the eve of the Reformation and Mike Harris. The churchwarden Penny Ritchie Calder has also agreed to speak about the restoration of the Capponi monument, which includes a recycled incised slab. This restoration was partly funded by the M.B.S.