Bulletin (Newsletter)

• Bulletin 158 (February 2025)

  • Diary of events
  • The brass of Guy Wade, merchant taylor, d.1557, at Standon, Hertfordshire
  • The brass in Fürstenwalde Cathedral, Germany, to Johann VII von Deher, Bishop of Lebus, d.1455
  • The lost brass to John Reeve, last abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, 1540
  • An unusual Victorian brass at Welford, Berkshire
  • Notices, news and notes on books, articles and the internet

  

• Bulletin 157 (October 2024)

  • Diary of events
  • Annual General Meeting: Beddington, Surrey – 20th July 2024
  • A.G.M. formal busines
  • Study Day: St. Alban's Cathedral – 14th September 2024
  • Memoir of a brass rubber
  • Susan Harriet Harcourt (1829-94)
  • A recently-discovered incised slab at Hietzing, Vienna
  • Book review
  • The brass to John T. Appleby in the abbey grounds of Bury St. Edmunds
  • Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2024

  

• Bulletin 156 (June 2024)

  • Diary of events
  • General Meeting: Hereford Cathedral – 20th April 2024
  • Noel Boston’s brass inscription
  • Fragments of brass in private possession in France
  • The brass of Sir Peter von Stettenberg (d.1428) at Bronnbach, Germany
  • ‘Blue Peter’ and brasses
  • An anagram on a brass
  • Betjeman and brasses
  • Notes on books, articles and the internet

  

• Bulletin 155 (February 2024)

  • Diary of events
  • Notices and news
  • The Flemish incised slab at Gressenhall, Norfolk, revealed
  • The Van Thielt slab at St. Olave, Hart Street, London
  • A tangle of Webbes
  • In memoriam: Richard James Busby (1938-2023)

  

• Bulletin 154 (October 2023)

  • A message from our new President
  • Diary of events
  • Annual General Meeting: Ardingley, Sussex – 8th July 2023
  • A.G.M. formal business
  • General Meeting: British Museum, London – 12th September 2023
  • The brass of Johannes von Geissel, d.1864, in Cologne Cathedral
  • The revival of the M.B.S. in 1934
  • Sixty years a member
  • The discovery of a brass indent at St. Peter’s, Colchester
  • An addendum to ‘The Victor of St. George’s Cay: Commander John Ralph Moss, R.N. (1759-99)’
  • In memoriam: Clive Burgess (1952-2023)

  

• Bulletin 153 (June 2023)

  • Diary of events
  • General Meeting: Haverstock Hill, London NW5 – 29th April 2023
  • The brass to Philippa de Beauchamp, d.1383, at Necton, Norfolk
  • The discovery of a brass indent at Mundon, Essex
  • The Courtenay-Huddesfeld brass at Shillingford, Devonshire
  • The brass to George Estye, d.1601, at St. Mary’s, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
  • An early enthusiast: Reginald Grove – postscript
  • Winchester Cathedral

  

• Bulletin 152 (February 2023)

  • Diary of events
  • Joint Symposium: King's Lynn – 2nd to 4th September 2022
  • General Meeting: Trotton, West Sussex – 15th October 2022
  • Two for one: twin medieval inscriptions at Alfreton, Derbyshire and Launde Priory, Leicestershire
  • The brass of Lady Margery Arundell (d.1420) at Antony: the most spectacular early brass in Cornwall?
  • The brasses of Hans von Dörnberg and his wives in St. Elisabethkirche, Marburg-an-der-Lahn, Hesse, Germany
  • Jonathan Ali Essay Prize
  • Monuments of the Wars of the Roses: A one-day Colloquium in honour of Mark Downing, F.S.A. – Guildhall, Leicester – 21st October 2023
  • Monumental brasses in literature, art and film: An addendum

  

• Bulletin 151 (October 2022)

  • Diary of events
  • Essay competition
  • Annual General Meeting: Saffron Walden, Essex – 16th July 2022
  • A.G.M. formal business
  • The brasses for Sir John and Lady Joan de Northwode, c.1330, at Minster Abbey church, Isle of Sheppey, Kent
  • The incised slabs and brasses of the Priory of St. Bartholomew, London
  • ‘Young Man of Brass’: a brass-rubbing tour of Norfolk in the early 1970s
  • The brass to Thomas Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield (d.1854), in Lichfield Cathedral
  • Notes on books, articles and the internet

  

• Bulletin 150 (June 2022)

  • President’s farewell message
  • Diary of events
  • General Meeting: Virtual – 19th February 2022
  • General Meeting: Stamford, Lincolnshire – 2nd April 2022
  • A brass at Ashby St. Ledgers reassessed
  • A palimpsest discovery at Butterton, Staffordshire
  • An early enthusiast: Reginald Grove – Part II
  • Johann Rode (d.1477) and his brass at St. Petri Dom, Bremen, Germany

  

• Bulletin 149 (February 2022)

  • Diary of events
  • General Meeting: Virtual – 11th September 2021
  • The Martyn family brasses at Long Melford, Suffolk
  • An early enthusiast: Reginald Grove – Part I
  • The revival of the religious life in Victorian Britain reflected in memorial brasses
  • In memoriam: Jennifer Ward (1938-2022)
  • Notes on books, articles and the internet

  

• Bulletin 148 (October 2021)

  • Annual General Meeting: Virtual – 10th July 2021
  • A.G.M. formal business
  • The lost brass to Roger Brabazon, 1498, formerly in Old St. Paul’s Cathedral
  • The Strachleigh brass at Ermington, Devonshire
  • Post-Reformation cadaver and skeleton brasses
  • Conwy Lloyd Morgan: brass rubber
  • Notes on books, articles and the internet

  

• Bulletin 147 (June 2021)

  • General Meeting: Virtual – 20th March 2021
  • ‘Malice aforethought’: A 14th-century murder recorded in brass
  • The incised slab to John and Elizabeth Coplestone, 1458 at Colebrooke, Devonshire
  • The Dartmouth brass formerly at Holy Trinity, Minories
  • A proposed brass for St. Mary’s, Bury, Lancashire
  • A touch of brass
  • The brass to Heinrich III von Werther, 1397 at Angermuseum, Erfurt, Germany
  • Notes on books, articles and the internet

  

• Bulletin 146 (February 2021)

  • Annual General Meeting: Virtual – 17th October 2020
  • A.G.M. formal business
  • The brass of John Waltham, Bishop of Salisbury (d.1395) in Westminster Abbey: a postscript
  • William Gonson's funerary agreement
  • John Pyke, 'magister scholarum'
  • Philanthropy and brasses after the Reformation
  • Facing east or west?: The brass to Bishop William Vaughan (1814-1902) at St. Mary and St. Boniface R.C. Cathedral, Plymouth
  • Notes on books, articles and the internet

  

• Bulletin 145 (October 2020)

  • ‘Spiritual Gentlemen’?: Rank and status among the late medieval clergy: the evidence of monumental brasses
  • Testamentary requests for brasses in Bedfordshire churches
  • Between England and Spain: Pedro Dávila y Zúñiga, 1st Marquess of Las Navas, 1498-1567
  • Notes on books, articles and the internet

  

• Bulletin 144 (June 2020)

  • Diary of events
  • Meeting report: Willesden, Middlesex – 26th October 2019
  • Heart imagery on medieval English brasses
  • Further testamentary requests for brasses in Suffolk churches
  • Plague and pestilence: a recurring pandemic
  • The brass to Abbot Heribert von Lülsdorf (1481) revisited:
    Kornelimünster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
  • Notes on books, articles and the internet

  

• Bulletin 143 (February 2020)

  • Diary of events
  • A.V.B. Norman Research Trust
  • Meeting report: Walthamstow, Essex – 28th September 2019
  • Testamentary brasses and related slabs in late medieval Suffolk parish churches
  • The brass to Sir Brian Rouclyff (d.1494) and wife Joan at Cowthorpe, Yorkshire
  • Neo-Gothic brasses in Cologne Cathedral
  • Notes on books, articles and the internet

  

• Bulletin 142 (October 2019)

  • Diary of events
  • Annual General Meeting: Oxford – 13th July 2019
  • A.G.M. formal business
  • The fixing and unfixing of monumental brasses
  • The rape and restoration of a Surrey brass
  • Major-General James Wolfe: the Captor of Quebec, 1759
  • The brass rubbing exploits of T.E. Lawrence
  • Where is it now?
  • Notes on books, articles and the internet

  

• Bulletin 141 (June 2019)

  • Diary of events
  • In memoriam: Jonathan Ali (1969-2019)
    and William Lack (1945-2019)
  • Meeting Report:
    Fairford, Gloucestershire – 30th March 2019
    by Challe Hudson
  • The marble quarry at Vaudey Abbey, Lincolnshire
    by Jon Bayliss
  • Fragments of medieval tomb slabs at St. Paul’s Cathedral
    by Stephen Freeth and Derrick Chivers
  • A curious indent at Southwold, Suffolk
    by Philip Whittemore
  • The Sibell Tyger
    by Roger Barnes
  • Chesham Bois: a hidden connection between LSW.IV and V
    by Mike Harris
  • Notes on books, articles and the internet

  

• Bulletin 140 (February 2019)

  • Diary of Events
  • Meeting Reports:
    Study Day at Cobham, Kent – 29th September 2018
    by Challe Hudson
    Tottenham, Middlesex – 27th October 2018
    by Challe Hudson
  • St. Maria-im-Capitol, Köln, Germany
    by Hans Gerd Dormagen
  • The importance of documentation
    by William Lack
  • Wills and Brasses: surviving examples
    by Philip Whittemore
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 139 (October 2018)

  • Dairy of Events
  • Annual General Meeting: St. Andrew’s church,
    Rochford, Essex – 14th July 2018
  • A.G.M. Formal Business
  • Medieval knight on the move from
    Sutton to Rochford, Essex
    by Martin Stuchfield
  • The Fortescue Brass at Weare Giffard, Devonshire
    by Philip Whittemore
  • Echoes of the Great War in Midlands churches
    by Rosalind Willatts
  • The Brass to Johann II, Duke of Kleve, 1521, and his wife
    Mechtild, 1505, in St. Mariae Himmelfahrt, Kleve, Germany
    by Kevin Herring
  • Adam Smallwood’s Latten Cross
    by Nicholas Rogers
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet