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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