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Sarah Morley monument - Gloucester Cathedral.

Sarah Morley monument - Gloucester Cathedral.

This monument by John Flaxman is to Sarah Morley (d1784) who died a few days after giving birth whilst travelling back to England from India. Both Sarah and her child were buried at sea.

  

 

19th-century tombs

19th-century tombs

19th-century tombs (c. 1801–1900) range from restrained memorials to highly elaborate architectural monuments. Influenced by Gothic Revival and Romantic historicism, they emphasize identity, family memory, and renewed Christian symbolism through sculpture, inscription, and material richness.

19th-century wall monuments

19th-century wall monuments

19th-century wall monuments (c. 1801–1900) are the most prolific and visually varied form of commemoration. Tablets, reliefs, and sculptural ensembles combine revival styles, moral sentiment, and biographical detail, reflecting Victorian attitudes to memory, faith, and social achievement.

Col Sir Henry Walton Ellis - Worcester Cathedral

Col Sir Henry Walton Ellis - Worcester Cathedral

This monument placed by the officers and men of the royal Welch Fusiliers is by John Bacon Jr . It depicts Col Sir Henry Walton Ellis falling from his horse, with Victory crowning him with a Laurel wreath.

 

 

Elizabeth Darnell - Thrapston, Northamptonshire

Elizabeth Darnell - Thrapston, Northamptonshire

This wall monument, dated 1831, commemorates Elizabeth Darnell and is located at Thrapston, Northamptonshire. It was commissioned by her daughter, Mary Montague, and is signed by the sculptor Edward Physick (1810–1842), whose short career produced a small but refined body of funerary work.

Richard Colt Hoare

Richard Colt Hoare

This sculpted monument commemorates Sir Richard Colt Hoare (d1818) and is located in Salisbury Cathedral. It was carved by the sculptor Richard Cockle Lucas , one of the most distinctive British sculptors of the early nineteenth century.

Hoare is shown seated, absorbed in the act of reading and writing. A large open manuscript rests across his knees, presenting him not as a figure of rank or authority but as an active scholar. His contemporary dress is rendered with close attention to texture and fall, reinforcing the sense of immediacy and naturalism.

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