Welcome to the picture gallery of past MBS events.
These days we have only two meetings a year, including our AGM, in London and another at a different London church each year. We 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.
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St Andrew Undershaft retains two sixteenth century brasses and a host of monuments, including that to John Stow, whose ’Survey of London’ details so many of the brasses that once adorned the churches of the City of London. Fortunately, St Andrew’s church escaped the Great Fire of London that destroyed so much of Stow’s London. Our visit also saw the launch of the excellent new Shire publication, with text by Sally Badham and photographs by Martin Stuchfield.
Martin Stuchfield and Sally Badham holding a copy of Monumental Brasses
The front cover of Monumental Brasses
Nicholas Leveson, 1534, and his wife Denys, 1560
Simon Burton, 1593, and two wives
Sally Badham, who organised the study day at Boston, calls the floor of the church’ the most important historic church floor in England.’ The bumerous Flemish and English slabs that once held brasses show why. The church authorities produced a collection of brass plates taken from the slabs, most of them unfortunately very worn.
Rubbing of the lost figure of a lady placed in the indent of her brass
Flemish composite slab showing a merchant and his wife, early C14
Dog from a Flemish slab
Group of sons from an English brass
The day started with refreshments served beneath the Boston stump
These pictures of the launch of our president’s new book are reproduced by courtesy of Derrick Chivers