In the Early Modern period, expenditure on grand funerals in England reached a point where it was regarded as a social problem. Where did all the money go? Some of it went on extravagant hearses and catalfalques which gave scope for artificers and designers. Their influence on permanent memorials will be explored.
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Geoff Brandwood Memorial Lecture: Historic building mythbusting – investigating mediaeval parish churches
Places of Worship in Britain and Ireland, 1990–2021
Competing Churches and Chapels, 1829–1939
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The Ecclesiological Society