Bath, Art and Architecture

Monday, 8 September 2025

Monument in St Lawrence Parish Church Ludlow and another at All Saints Honington.

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  The slightly macabre marble monument to Theophilus Salway b. c 1699 d. 1760, St Lawrence Parish Church, Ludlow.  Salway was a director of ...
Saturday, 6 September 2025

Some designs of Funeral Monuments by James Gibbs of 1728

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  This post is was created as an aide memoire. Images from A Book of Architecture, containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments. By James G...

The Monuments to Katherine Villiers Lewis at Chalgrove, Oxfordshire and to Anne Wyntle at Merton College Oxford by Henry Cheere.

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  The Monument to Katherine Villiers Lewis (1724 - 13 April 1756).   Wife of the Rev John Lewis who was from 1755 Dean of Ossory in Ireland....
Friday, 5 September 2025

Two very fine Monuments from the workshop of Henry Cheere at Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford.

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  Bishop George Berkeley (1685 - 1753). Bishop George Berkeley was an Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who is best known for his theory...
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