Bulletin (Newsletter)

• 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

  

• Bulletin 127 (October 2014)

  • Diary of Events
    Meeting Reports:
    A.G.M. Formal Business
    by Christian Steer
    Joint Symposium at Sotterley, Suffolk – 7th June 2014
    by Stephen Freeth
    Annual General Meeting
    Bray, Berkshire – 5th July 2014
    by Hilary Wheeler
  • International Medieval Congress – Kalamazoo
    by Ellie Pridgeon
  • Lincolnshire Museum – a postscript
    by Stephen Freeth
  • There’s some corner of a foreign field . . .
    by Philip Whittemore
  • A recent discovery in Newcastle
    by Richard Busby
  • Hawkshaw Lane End Wesleyan Memorial
    by Jonathan Ali
  • Erfurt, St. Marien Cathedral revisited:
    the brass to Dr. Hunold von Plettenberg, 1475
    by Kevin Herring
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 126 (June 2014)

  • Diary of Events
    Meeting Reports:
    The Temple Church, London – 22nd February 2014
    Men of the Inner Temple and their Brasses
    by David Harte
    Hillingdon, Middlesex – 12th April 2014
    by Ken Surman
  • Dau Arysgrifau Cymraeg arall
    by Philip Whittemore
  • Brass thefts continue
    by Martin Stuchfield
  • Intriguing palimpsest surfaces in Essex saleroom
    by Martin Stuchfield
  • The Quadryng Brass at Outwell, Norfolk
    by Christian Steer
  • The export of brass from England during the Reformation
    by Jon Bayliss
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 125 (February 2014)

  • Diary of Events
    Meeting Reports:
    Study Day at Lingfield, Surrey – 28th September 2013
    by Jennifer Ward
    St. Paul’s Cathedral − 16th November 2013
    ‘Remembered Lives’: The importance of
    continuing the tradition of church memorials
    by Penny Williams
  • The 100 Church Treasures
    by Sally Badham
  • A Brass Figure in Lincolnshire Museum
    by Stephen Freeth
  • Millbrook, Bedfordshire: A Note on the Were Brass
    by Philip Whittemore
  • War Memorial at St. Mary’s Church, Bocking, Essex
    by Very Rev. Philip Need
  • Loyalty and Locality in Tudor Derbyshire:
    the brass of Nicholas Kniveton, 1500
    by Matthew Ward
  • Lest we forget
    by Robert Tucker
  • Lost monuments from Goltho, Lincolnshire
    by Sally Badham
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 124 (October 2013)

  • Diary of Events
    Meeting Reports:
    Museum of London – 1st June 2013
    by Graham Javes
    A.G.M. Formal Business
    by Christian Steer
  • Laid to rest in a foreign land: brasses and tombs
    of England’s resident immigrants, 1330-1550
    by Jessica Lutkin
  • Whittington Turned Again or The Strange Case
    of the Brass of Richard and Margaret Coton
    by Jerome Bertram
  • AROUND THE COUNTRY
    Norfolk
    by Martin Stuchfield
    Nottinghamshire
    by Patrick Farman
    Suffolk
    by Martin Stuchfield
  • The Lost Brass to John Dunstaple, ‘Musitian’, 1453
    formerly in St. Stephen, Walbrook, London
    by Philip Whittemore
  • John Green Waller, 1813-2013
    by Philip Whittemore
  • Book Review
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 123 (June 2013)

  • Diary of Events
    Meeting Reports:
    Enfield, Middlesex – 2nd March 2013
    by Andrew Elkerton
    2013 Conference
    Trinity Hall, Cambridge – 12th to 14th April 2013
    by David Harte
  • The Strode Single Deliverance Brass rediscovered
    Serendipity, or ‘chance favours the prepared mind’?
    by John Blatchly
  • Early Brass Rubbings
    by Philip Whittemore
  • The Blackburn Indent – a York merchant and his wives
    by Ann Rycraft
  • A foray into Northamptonshire
    by Jane Houghton
  • Another Brass Theft
  • ‘Medieval knight’ unearthed in Edinburgh car park
  • An American Rubbing
    by Patricia Seibold
  • Book Review
  • A Brass Rubbing Recipe
    by Peter Heseltine
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 122 (February 2013)

  • Matters Arising
  • Diary of Events
  • Meeting Report:
    ‘Monumental Worthies’ – 3rd November 2012
    by Christian Steer
  • Leicester, Greyfriars
  • AROUND THE COUNTRY
    Middlesex
    Norfolk
    by Martin Stuchfield
  • Identifying a brass rubbing
    by Mike Harris
  • Groote Kerk, Breda, Noord-Brabant – The tomb of
    Roelandt Alartsz and wife Marina Godevaert Heijs,
    both died 1485, and their son Adrianus Heijs, 1550
    by Kevin Herring
  • A late-medieval shroud brass in Alkmaar
    in the new MeMO database
    by Sophie Oosterwijk
  • S.S. Waratah:
    Brasses commemorating those lost aboard “Australia’s Titanic”
    by Jonathan Moor
  • The Edleston Archive at Durham
    by Philip Whittemore
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 121 (October 2012)

  • Diary of Events
  • Meeting Reports:
    Presentation of the Grant of Arms – 27th June 2012
    by Martin Stuchfield
    Annual General Meeting – 21st July 2012
    Lincoln Cathedral
    by Rosalind Willatts
    A.G.M. Formal Business
    by Christian Steer
    Study Day at Lydd, Kent – 22nd September 2012
    by Adele Sykes
  • Bonhams sells Brass
    by Martin Stuchfield
  • Brasses in Singapore and New Zealand
    by Patrick Farman
  • AROUND THE COUNTRY
    Berkshire
    by Martin Stuchfield
    Suffolk
    by Martin Stuchfield
    Yorkshire
    by Patrick Farman and Martin Stuchfield
  • Reflections
    by Hector Catling
  • An English Brass in America
    by Philip Whittemore
  • Ingham, Norfolk
    by Derrick Chivers
  • Around the Southern Foothills of the Harz Mountains 2010
    by Kevin Herring
  • An unusual clerical indent at Wingfield, Suffolk
    by Sally Badham
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 120 (June 2012)

  • Diary of Events
  • Society’s Report and Accounts
  • A Rare Survival – Stoke Lyne, Oxfordshire
    by Jonathan Moor
  • Meeting Report:
    South Mimms and Ridge – 31st March 2012
    by Rosalind Willatts
  • Ricardian Replicas
    by Iris Day
  • AROUND THE COUNTRY
    Norfolk
    by Martin Stuchfield
    Yorkshire
    by Patrick Farman
  • A Trip to the Bodensee 2010
    by Kevin Herring
  • An uncommissioned brass
    by Janet Whitham
  • Mill Stephenson – A life in brass
    by Philip Whittemore
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 119 (February 2012)

  • Diary of Events
  • Meeting Reports:
    Our Founder: ‘Chalcotriptic Expeditions:
    The Life and Diary of H.W. Macklin’ – 8th October 2011
    by Michael Harris
    Sir John Soane Museum – 14th January 2012
    by Rosalind Willatts
  • Shottesbrooke, Berkshire
    by Martin Stuchfield
  • A lost brass in Santa Sabina, Rome
    by Nicholas Rogers
  • The indent in St. Lawrence, Ipswich
    by Stephen Freeth
  • Margareta of Austria, Duchess of Saxony (1416-86)
    by Reinhard Lamp
  • Reformation and recycling in the Netherlands
    by Sophie Oosterwijk
  • The Fayrey family of Dunstable, their brass and their
    involvement with Bedfordshire religious guilds
    by Sally Badham
  • Book Review
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet

  

• Bulletin 118 (October 2011)

  • Diary of Events
  • Meeting Reports:
    St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Study Day – 4th June 2011
    by Laura Callingham
    Standon, Hertfordshire – 25th June 2011
    by Laura Wood
    Annual General Meeting – 23rd July 2011
    East Horndon, Essex
    by Rosalind Willatts
    A.G.M. Formal Business
    by Christian Steer
  • Transactions Editorial Committee
  • AROUND THE COUNTRY
    Kent
    Lincolnshire
    by Patrick Farman
    Yorkshire
    by Patrick Farman
  • Top Gear goes brass rubbing
  • The illustrated woman
  • A sixteen-fragment indent restored
    by John Blatchly
  • The Portable Antiquities Scheme
    In Brass and Glass – Heythrop, Oxfordshire
    by Jonathan Moor
  • Notes on Books, Articles and the Internet