Bulletin (Newsletter)

• 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

  

• Bulletin 138 (June 2018)

  • Diary of Events
  • Meeting Reports:
    Edmonton, Middlesex – 28th October 2017
    by Challe Hudson
    Eton College – 21st April 2018
    by Rosalind Willatts
  • Joining the Dots
    by Jerome Bertram
  • Further Indents at York Minster
    by Philip Whittemore
  • Flemish Brasses in Funchal Cathedral, Madeira
    by Stephen Freeth
  • New Fragments of Brasses at the Museum of London
    by Stephen Freeth
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 137 (February 2018)

  • Diary of Events
  • Meeting Report:
    Study Day at Salisbury – 30th September 2017
    by Rosalind Willatts
  • “We’re all tooooombed……” – ‘Loci Sepulcralis: Pantheons
    and other Places of Memory and Burial in the Middle Ages’ –
    a conference in Batalha, Portugal, 21st-23rd September 2017
  • Another addition to the Herefordshire County Series volume
  • ‘Shining with every Virtue’?:
    John Hornley, vicar of Dartford, 1442-77
    by David Lepine
  • Newdegate must fall
    by Jerome Bertram
  • Brass Rood Statues at Holy Trinity Church, Ingham, Norfolk
    by David Stannard
  • Book Review
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 136 (October 2017)

  • Diary of Events
  • Annual General Meeting
    Bristol Grammar School – 29th July 2017
    by Rosalind Willatts
  • A.G.M. Formal Business
    by Janet McQueen
  • An early London brass-slab in need of help at Hever, Kent
    by Julian Luxford
  • The brass of John Killigrew, esquire,
    at Budock, Cornwall: some new evidence
    by Nigel Saul
  • An addition to the Herefordshire list at Aconbury Priory
    by Sally Badham
  • Portable Antiquities Scheme
  • A Plea for help
    by George McHardy
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 135 (June 2017)

  • Diary of Events
  • Meeting Report:
    All Saints North Street, York – 8th April 2017
    by Rosalind Willatts
  • A Memorial Brass on Orkney
    by Hugh and Sandra Guilford
  • ‘Monumentum aere perennius’? The ongoing search
    forprecious-metal effigial tombs in medieval Europe
    (1080-1430)
    by Sophie Oosterwijk and Sally Badham
  • Opus Anglicanum:
    Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery
    Victoria and Albert Museum, October 2016 – February 2017
    by David Lepine
  • The Brass to Margarete of Saxony, Duchess of
    Braunschweig-Lüneburg, 1528, in the Herderkirche, Weimar
    by Kevin Herring
  • Book Review
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

   

  

• Bulletin 134 (February 2017)

  • Diary of Events
  • Meeting Reports:
    St. Augustine’s, Ramsgate, Kent – 21st September 2016
    by Nicholas Rogers
    London, St. Bartholomew-the-Less – 5th November 2016
    by Penny Williams
  • ‘Valour of the highest order’: The Brass to Leslie Manser,
    V.C., 1942, at Radlett, Hertfordshire
    by Philip Whittemore
  • Commissioning a new Brass Conservation Workshop
    by Simon Nadin
  • The Dutch artist Maerten van Heemskerck and his
    connections with the brass in St. Laurenskerk, Alkmaar
    by Kevin Herring
  • Two Brass Fragments in Scunthorpe Museum
    by Stephen Freeth
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 133 (October 2016)

  • Diary of Events
  • Meeting Report
    Study Day at Exeter Cathedral – 28th May 2016
    by Rosalind Willatts
  • Exploring the Heritage of St. Michael and All Angels Church,
    Great Tew, Oxfordshire – 18th June 2016
    by Janet McQueen and Charlotte Stanford
  • Annual General Meeting
    Winchester, St. Cross – 16th July 2016
    by Rosalind Willatts
  • A.G.M. Formal Business
    by Janet McQueen
  • The Athol Brass at Ashford, Kent
    by Philip Whittemore
  • Historic Brasses return to Gloucester
    by Robert Tucker
  • Recovery at Wentworth, Yorkshire
  • Sledmere War Memorial, Yorkshire
    by Peter Hacker
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 132 (June 2016)

  • Diary of Events
  • Meeting Report
    Chrishall, Essex – 9th April 2016
    by Rosalind Willatts
  • The Will of Sir John de la Pole of Chrishall, Essex
    by Nigel Saul
  • John Travers (Jack) Cornwell, V.C., 1900-16
    by Jonathan Ali
  • The slab to Hinrich Gerdener, 1471, at Isenhagen, Germany
    by Reinhard Lamp
  • Lost in the Great Fire:
    the Monuments of St. Mary Aldermanbury, London
    by Philip Whittemore
  • A quirky external brass at Minehead
    by Peter Hacker
  • A Memorial at Agincourt
    by Derrick Chivers
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 131 (February 2016)

  • Diary of Events
    Meeting Report:
    Newark, Nottinghamshire – 17th October 2015
    by Wilf White
  • Brass and Glass: George Washington’s Ancestor –
    Laurence Washington of Sulgrave, Northamptonshire
    by Philip Whittemore
  • Dedication of Westminster College Chapel, Cambridge
    in 1919
    by Nicholas Rogers
  • The Brass to Lieutenant R.L. Ward, 1916,
    formerly in St. Mary’s Soho, (Charing Cross) London
    by David Meara
  • Fragments from Dame Kateryne Grey’s monument,
    St. Swithun’s, East Grinstead, Sussex
    by Caroline Metcalfe
  • Book Review
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 130 (October 2015)

  • Diary of Events
  • Meeting Reports:
    Annual General Meeting
    Great Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire – 8th August 2015
    by Joanna Laynesmith
    2015 Conference
    Norwich – 18th to 20th September 2015
    by Anne F. Sutton
  • Robert Markham slab from Rufford Abbey
    by Peter Ryder
  • Willem Loemans of Cologne and
    the patronage of 15th-century brasses
    by Ann Adams
  • Brass to John and Elizabeth Davey,
    St. Birinus R.C. Church, Dorchester
    by David Meara
  • Brass theft at Islip, Northamptonshire
    by Philip Whittemore
  • Vicar slain –wife and children evicted
    by Jane Houghton
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 129 (June 2015)

  • Diary of Events
  • Meeting Reports:
    Battle, East Sussex – 28th March 2015
    by Caroline Metcalfe
    A Day in Honour of Jerome Bertram Oxford –
    30th May 2015
    by Michael Harris
  • Stolen brasses recovered
    by Martin Stuchfield
  • The 15th century brass at Trotton:
    A hero of Agincourt as armoured icon
    by Tobias Capwell
  • Dunwich, Suffolk
    by Philip Whittemore
  • Marblers and Monuments in the Middle Ages:
    A contribution by our Hon. Secretary to a Study Day
    in Oxford
    by Hubert Allen
  • At the going down of the sun . . .
    by Philip Whittemore
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 128 (February 2015)

  • Diary of Events
  • Meeting Reports:
    Cirencester, Gloucestershire – 27th September 2014
    by Ann Wintle
    Commemoration of the Dead: new approaches,
    new perspectives, new material – 15th November 2014
    by David Lepine
  • Politics and Piety:
    the 15th century brasses at St. Giles-on-the-Hill, Norwich
    by Carole Hill
  • Bat Habitats Regulation Bill 2015
    by Martin Stuchfield
  • What constitutes error? Idiosyncrasies of composition
    and engraving in the inscription of 1586 to
    Sir Thomas Brudenell, 1549, Deene, Northamptonshire
    by Mike Good and David Miller
  • Recording in Northamptonshire
    by Jane Houghton
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet