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All Hallows-by-the-Tower
also known as All Hallows, Barking
Great Tower Street |
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Underground:
Tower Hill
District &
Circle Lines
Opening Hours: Sun &
Mon: 11.00am-2.00pm; Tues - Fri: 11.00am - 5.00pm;
Sat: Closed
Website
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Right:
[2] Alderman John Croke (1477) and his
wife, Margaret. Purbeck marble with brasses of
kneeling figures - male civilian with seven sons on the same
plate and widow with five daughters. on the back wall, although
these can be scarcely made out since the tomb acts as a
housing for the T-Hoc lamp.
Above: Philip Thomas Byard Clayton (1972)
'Tubby' Clayton, the founder of Toc H |
Other Monuments |
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Jerome Benali (1583/4) Kneeling figure of male
civilian flank by frame; cartouche of arms. |
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Francis Covell (1621) and his wife,
Margery (1643/4) Figures only remaining? Male civilian
and female, both kneeling
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Gyles Lytcott
(1696) and his wife, Sarah (1713); his
son-in-law, Col. Nathaniel Long (1714),
and the latter's wife, Sarah (Lytcott) (1731/2).
White marble wall monument of column flanked by putti. |
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John Winder
(1699), his brother, Samuel Winder (n/d)
Marble wall monument with achievement of arms, and
shield supported by putti. |
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There are a number of
brasses remaining 14th - 16th centuries |
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St Bartholomew the Great
West Smithfield |
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Underground:
Barbican:
Circle, Hammersmith
& City and Metropolitan Lines
Hours: Mon-Fri. 8.30am-5.00pm (11th Nov-14th Feb
4.00pm). Sat 10.30am-4.00pm. Sun 8.30am-8.00pm.
There is a charge for visitors of £4.00 (adults)
but not for the 1st hour or those wishing to
worship. Check:
http://www.greatstbarts.com/ |
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Rahere (1144)Founder of the
church. Made when the east end was modified in
c. 1405. Effigy, in Augustinian habit, of
Reigate stone. Two bedesmen and angel holding
shield at feet. Back wall is pierced to the
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John (1681) & Margaret (1680) Whiting
'lived lovingly in holy Wedlock in this Parish
40 years and upwards...' |
Edward Cooke (1652)
Attributed to
Thomas Burman |
Percival Smalpace (1558 & Wife (1588)
Below the busts is a slate panel incised with
images of the couple's naked corpses. Attrib to
Giles de Witt |
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St
Batholomew the Less
St Batholomew's
Hospital |
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Underground:
Barbican:
Circle,
Hammersmith & City
and Metropolitan
Lines
Hours: 7.00am - 8.00 pm or later
Website of the Friends
(if you click on this
link, click 'cancel' when the box shows)
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William Markeby (1439) & Wife |
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Richard Chiswell (1711)
'Citizen and Stationer of London' Also his
parentsJohn and Margaret - his
first wife Sarah, and his five
children, who died young, whom he had with his
second wife Mary; she is buried
in 'Christ Church, London.' Attrib. to
William Woodman Snr |
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Sir John Micklethwaite (1682)
Attrib. to Gibbons |
Dame Anne Packington (1563)
The three kneeling figures, shield and
inscription are not 'brasses' but incised and
painted to look like a brass. |
There are many other monuments
not yet shown |
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St Dunstan-in-the-West
Fleet Street |
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Underground:
Chancery Lane:
Central Line; Temple:
District &
Circle Lines; Farringdon: Metropolitan Line
Opening hours: Monday - Friday, 10.00 am - 4.00 pm;
Saturday and Sunday: Closed
Website |
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Above: Edward
James Auriol (1847) who drowned in the Rhône.
Marble.
Right: Sir Richard Hoare (1754),
Alderman and Lord Mayor of London in 1745. Sarcophagus on which putto with portrait
medallion. Also his two wives: Sarah (Tully)
and Elizabeth (Ruby) No dates.
The inscription below tells us that the monument was
removed from the old church and re-erected by the
parishioners in 1832
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Other Monuments |
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William Morecroft (1657)
Bust in niche with curtains, black and white
marble. Attached pillars. Skull below. Attrib. Joshua
Marshall |
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Edward Marshall (1675)
Master mason, and
his wife, Ann and son Joshua
(1675). Marble tablet with several cherubs,
cartouche of arms. By
Marshall workshop c. 1678 |
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Gerard Legh (1563)
Marble tablet flanked by male and female caryatids |
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Cuthbert Fetherstone (1615)
Bust in circular niche. Painted stone panel
below |
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Sir Richard Hutton (1640)
Black and white stone tablet with pillars and
cherub's heads and pillars. By Nicholas
Stone |
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Richard Peirson (1718)
and others. Reset in Gothick frame |
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Elizabeth Moore (1668)
Wall monument with black marble panel, with
cherub head, pillars, lozenge of arms. Attrib Joshua Marshall |
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Hobson Judkin (1812)
'The honest solicitor' Circular tablet
with tiny skulls |
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Elizabeth North (Gilbert) (1612)
Kneeling figure at prayer desk. Two sons and
two daughters also kneel similarly behind the main
figure. |
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Thomas Valence (1601)
Tablet of black marble in elaborate white
marble frame with fruit, flowers, hour glass, skull and
shield of arms above |
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Thomas White
Founder of Sion college. By Bloomfield 1877 |
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Kneeling civilian male figure late 16th
century. Alabaster on modern bracket. |
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Margaret Talbot (Windsor) (1620)
Kneeling figure incised (in gilt lines?) on slate
(or black marble), in architectural (alabaster?)
frame with cherub head at base and shield and lozenge of
arms at side. |
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Albrect Otto
Faber (1684) Marble tablet with cartouche of
arms. Signed John Settle |
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Damaris Turner (Worthington) (1703)
Cartouche with foliage, skull at base and
cartouche of arms at head. |
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Sir Richard Hoare (1723)
Tablet with two putti on top |
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John Shaw (1832)
Circular tablet with angels by Shaw Jnr |
The cut off date of 1714
of the RCHM inventory results in several monuments which
are listed above being omitted.
RCHM numbers 2, 3, 7 - 9, 13, 17, 19, 21, and 22
are omitted from Pevsner. I do not know if
these still exist or have simply been ignored. |
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Agnes and John
Crosby (1476)
Purbeck marble tomb chest
with alabaster effigies |

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Samuel Pepys (1703 )
The
diarist.
By Blomfield (1884) |
Sir Andrew Riccard (1672)
in Roman dress;
erected by Levant Company of
which he was chairman.
Attrib. to
Bushnell |
Mrs Elisabeth Pepys (1669) - wife of the diarist.
By
John Bushnell |
Sir John Radclif
(1568)
This is a fragment of a
recumbent effigy on a later base |
Jane Humberstone
(1694)
The monument was erected by her
husband, Matthew (1709) whose
name is added at the bottom |
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Sir James Deane (1608)
Sir
James and his three wives. |
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Other
Monuments |
Lady Radclif (1585)
The kneeling figure only
Peter Cappone (1582)
A
Florentine merchant. Kneeling figure in
surround.
Andrew (1610), Alderman,
and Paul Bayning (1616),
Alderman and Sheriff. Kneeling figures
surrounding a corner. Attrib. to
Christopher Kingsfield
Elizabeth Gore (1698)
- one
month short of her 19th birthday
Lord
Mayor Sir Richard Haddon (1524) Brass
with kneeling figures of two wives and five
children.
Thomas Morley
(1566) Brass - a palimpsest
Also several brasses of
the 17th century
Sir William
Ogborne (1734) Master Carpenter to
Board of Ordnance. Cartouche. |
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The above photographs were mostly send to me by Dr
John Physick and Miss Sally Badham, both former presidents of the Church
Monuments Society, and to whom thanks
More London photographs would be very welcome. Thank you! |
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