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Bulletin 128 (February 2015)_2010 Report and Accounts.qxd 26/02/2015 09:19 Page 541 Monumental Brass Society FEBRUARY 2015 BULLETIN 128 Bulletin 128 (February 2015)_2010 Report and Accounts.qxd 26/02/2015 09:19 Page 542 Monumental Brass Society 542 The Bulletin is published three times a year, in February, June and October. Articles for inclusion in the next issue Personalia The Society is particularly pleased to be able to should be sent to the Hon. Bulletin Editor, William Lack at 2 The Radleth, Plealey, Pontesbury, announce that our long-standing member, Shrewsbury SY5 0XF by 1st May 2015. Contributions John Blatchly has been appointed Honorary to Notes on Books and Articles should be sent to Wolsey Professor in the Department of Arts and Richard Busby at ‘Treetops’, Beech Hill, Hexham, Humanities at University Campus Suffolk. Northumberland NE46 3AG by 1st April 2015. We also congratulate our member Jessica Barker on Contributors may send articles either as typed double- spaced copy or as an email attachment, to either the award of a doctorate from the University of [email protected] or [email protected]. London on Joint Memorials in Late Medieval England. We welcome as new members: Useful Society contacts: Gabriel Byng, 1 Windmill Road, Stroud, For general enquiries, subscriptions or Gloucestershire GL6 9DX membership of the Society: Alicia Cannizzo, 386 Fort Washington Avenue, Christian Steer, Hon. Secretary, 8 Shefford Lodge, Apartment 6B, New York, New York 10033, U.S.A. Link Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 7LR Email: [email protected] Marla Morris, 82 Wandle Road, Wandsworth, London SW17 7DW (Associate) Robin Netherton, 715 Aramis Drive, St. Louis, For matters concerning the conservation of Missouri 63141, U.S.A. brasses (including thefts etc.): Martin Stuchfield, Hon. Conservation Officer, David Stocker, Manor Farm House, Main Street, Pentlow Hall, Cavendish, Suffolk CO10 7SP Thorpe-on-the-Hill, Lincolnshire LN6 9BG Email: [email protected] Holly Wain, 15 Sharphill Road, Edwalton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG12 4BA (Associate) Contributions for publication in the Transactions: Help wanted Nicholas Rogers, Hon. Editor, c/o Muniment Room, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge CB2 3HU I am seeking help with a new project being Email: [email protected] undertaken in conjunction with the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Experiencing Tomb Sculpture in Medieval Website: www.mbs-brasses.co.uk Europe, seeks to understand and characterise medieval Jon Bayliss, Hon. Internet Publicity Officer tomb sculpture from the perspective of the viewer. 31 Churchfields, Hethersett, Norwich, I am interested in: Norfolk NR9 3AF G Testators requesting prayers to be said, candles Email: [email protected] to be lit, etc. at the site of their tomb. G Descriptions of monuments in chronicles, Hon. Treasurer’s Notice On 1st January all subscriptions for 2015 become pilgrimage accounts, literary texts or other due. Please send £25.00 (associate/student £12.50, medieval documents. G family £35.00) to Christian Steer (see above). Payment Images of tombs in other medieval artworks can be made using the PayPal system via mbs_brasses @yahoo.com or make cheques payable to the Please email [email protected] or by ‘Monumental Brass Society’. Many thanks to all those post to Jessica Barker, The Courtauld Institute, members who have completed Gift Aid forms. Any U.K. Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN. tax-paying member can enable the Society to reclaim Jessica Barker tax on their subscription. Complete and send in the form that can be downloaded directly from www.mbs-brasses.co.uk. U.S. members preferring to pay Cover illustration in dollars can send a cheque for U.S. $45.00 to Coffin plate of Oliver Cromwell, 1658. Taken in January Shirley Mattox at 1313 Jackson Street, Oshkosh, 1661 by James Norfolke when exhuming Cromwell’s body Wisconsin 54901. Correspondence on all other financial to be hanged and beheaded at Tyburn. Sold at Sotheby’s matters should be sent to the Hon. Treasurer, on 9th December 2014 for £74,500 including buyer’s Robert Kinsey at 18 Haughgate Close, Woodbridge, premium, etc. Suffolk IP12 1LQ. (photo.: The Guardian) Bulletin 128 (February 2015)_2010 Report and Accounts.qxd 26/02/2015 09:19 Page 543 543 Monumental Brass Society Diary of Events Saturday, 8th August 2015 at 2.00p.m. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Saturday, 28th March 2015 at 2.00p.m. GREAT BERKHAMSTED, HERTFORDSHIRE GENERAL MEETING The Annual General Meeting will be held in BATTLE CHURCH, EAST SUSSEX St. Peter’s church, Great Berkhamsted. Following The first meeting of 2015 will take the Society to the formal business, our member Jessica Barker, Battle Church with the opportunity to view and will speak on Middle Class Love: the 14th century brass learn about their important collection of brasses. to Richard Torryngton and his wife Margaret Incent. Memorials of note include those for John Lowe, Members are asked not to arrive at the church 1426, and John Wythines, Vice-Chancellor of until after 1.30p.m. because of an earlier event the University of Oxford, 1615. Clifford taking place. Braybrooke will speak on St. Mary’s Church, Battle; Robert Hutchinson on The Brasses of Battle Church; 18th-20th September 2015 and Nigel Llewellyn on The Monument to SOCIETY CONFERENCE Sir Anthony Browne and his wife, Alice Gage. THE MAID’S HEAD HOTEL, NORWICH Pat Roberts will also provide an optional tour of Booking is now open for the 2015 Conference to be the church with tea available at the conclusion of held in Norwich with the theme Symbols in Life and the meeting. Death. The Conference will include an opportunity to visit Salle church and many of the fine medieval The church dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin is located in city churches containing a wealth of brasses and Upper Lake in the centre of Battle with ample parking monuments. The Conference programme includes in the vicinity. The postcode for satellite navigation is the following speakers: Jon Bayliss, Paul Binski, TN33 0AN. The nearest station is Battle (served from Claire Daunton, Sam Gibbs, David Harry, London: London Bridge). Rosemary Hayes, Sandy Heslop, Carole Hill, David King, Helen Lunnon, Julian Luxford, Saturday, 30th May 2015 at 10.30a.m. Matthew Sillence, Martin Stuchfield and GENERAL MEETING Norman Tanner. A deposit of £50.00 per person ‘A DAY IN HONOUR OF JEROME BERTRAM’, is payable in order to secure a booking with the OXFORD balance to be paid by 30th June 2015. The booking The Society is holding a special all-day meeting in form has been emailed to members. However, Oxford. The day will begin at the ‘Tom Gate’ of anybody requiring a printed copy should contact Christ Church College where Jerome Bertram the Hon. Secretary. will conduct a tour of the Chapel and its brasses. This will be followed by an opportunity to visit the THE HESELTINE LIBRARY chapel and library at Merton College with our A large collection of books on brasses, member, Alan Bott. The chapel contains an monuments and allied subjects has been extensive collection of brasses. An optional buffet bequeathed to the Society by the late Peter lunch is also available together with a copy of Heseltine (see Bulletin 123 (June 2013), p.443). Treasures of Merton College (cost: £25.00). Having augmented the Society’s extensive library at the University of Birmingham the The afternoon will commence at 3.00p.m. at remainder (comprising some 400 lots) will be The Oratory, Woodstock Road, where speakers sold in two tranches with the proceeds destined will include John Blair on Recording indents: the pros for the Society’s Conservation Fund. and cons of drawing; Robin Emmerson on “His Studies are of Death, of Heaven his Meditation”; This is a rare opportunity to acquire books and David Griffith on Speaking in tongues: reading which seldom appear on the market. The items brasses in multilingual England. The event will also will not be sold on a first-come first-served basis include an exhibition of rubbings and conclude with but to the highest bidder by a closing date of afternoon tea. Friday, 27th March 2015. To book lunch at Merton College please send a Members are invited to apply for the catalogue cheque for £25.00 (made payable to the list from Martin Stuchfield (Pentlow Hall, Monumental Brass Society) to the Hon. Secretary Cavendish, Suffolk CO10 7SP) preferably by with your name, address, email and/or telephone email ([email protected]). number. Bulletin 128 (February 2015)_2010 Report and Accounts.qxd 26/02/2015 09:19 Page 544 Monumental Brass Society 544 MEETING REPORTS Cirencester, Gloucestershire – 27th September 2014 St. John the Baptist, Cirencester, the largest parish church in Gloucestershire, was the venue for this Study Day The church boasts sixteen medieval brasses, many of which were removed from the chancel by Sir George Gilbert Scott and are now to be found in the Trinity Chapel at the east end of the north aisle and in the Lady Chapel. In 1457 John Chedworth, a native of Cirencester who died as Bishop of Lincoln in 1471, gave money for four priests to celebrate his chantry at the altar of St. Nicholas and St. Catherine in the chapel now dedicated to both saints. Chedworth was buried in Lincoln Cathedral and commemorated by an elaborate (but now lost) memorial brass. The bishop thus benefited from two different commemorative arenas, and it was the first speaker, Miriam Gill, who introduced us to his devotion at Cirencester with her talk on The Chantry Chapel of Bishop Chedworth. Dr. Gill drew our attention to the wall paintings which include an image of St. Nicholas, produced with very expensive pigments and shown on a background of damask design and a small panel of early 14th century roundels, an image of St.