Some images and notes.
In preparation.
Thomas Green of Camberwell (c. 1659–1730).
Gloucester Cathedral.
https://www.visitchurches.org.uk/what-we-do/blog/church-monument-of-the-month-may-2025-st-
“Green is something of a mystery figure since his common
surname makes it difficult to identify him from contemporary records. He was
the son of a tailor, Edward Greene of St Giles, Cripplegate, in the City of
London, and was probably born c1659,
since he is likely to have been about 14
when he was apprenticed to a London mason, John Fitch, on 27 March
1673...”
“Twenty of his monuments have been identified, either
because he advertised his authorship
with a prominent signature or because he
transcribed the inscriptions for publication in John Le Nevea’s
Monumenta Anglicana, 1717-19”.
“Green’s first known work, the monument to Sir Richard
Earle at Stragglethorpe, Lincs was commissioned by the mother of
the deceased, Eleanor Payne, nee Welby,
and was probably completed around 1700. It has two busts flanking
a tablet with distinctive consoles and
above is a segmental pediment, with a heavy curtain drawn up over it to reveal
a panel with four winged cherub heads.
https://www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/stragglethorpe.html
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