Monumental brasses of Gloucestershire

About 80 ancient monumental brasses survive in Gloucestershire, many in the parish churches at Cirencester and Northleach. Many have been lost to theft over the ages. The first complete listing of brasses in Gloucestershire was made by Cecil T Davis who stated that they may be divided into three categories: ecclesiastical, military and civil.^[1]

List of monumental brasses of Gloucestershire

Image(Drawing/Rubbing;Photograph)	Date	Location	Name[1]
	c. 1370	Winterbourne	A lady of the Bradestone family
	1396	Temple Church, Bristol	Civilian, half-length
	1400	Deerhurst	Sir John Cassy (judicial costume) and wife Alice, with canopy
	c. 1400	Cirencester	Wine merchant(?) and wife Margaret, imperfect with canopy
	c. 1400	Northleach	John Taylour (wool merchant) and wife Joane
	1401	Chipping Campden	William Greville (civilian costume) and wife Marion, with canopy
	c. 1411	Trinity Church, Bristol	John Barstaple
	c. 1411	Trinity Church, Bristol	Isabella, wife of John Barstaple
	1416 [2]	Dyrham	Maurice Russell, knight
	1417[3]	Wooton-under-Edge	Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley
	c. 1430	Quinton	Joan Clopton (vowess) with canopy
	1438	Cirencester	Richard Dixton in armour, with canopy
	1439	St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol	Sir John Juyn in judicial costume
	1440	Cirencester	Robert Page in civilian costume and wife Margaret, 6 sons, 8 daughters with canopy
	1442	Cirencester	Reginald Spyeer in civilian costume and 4 wives: Margaret, Juliana, Margaret and Joan
	c. 1445	Newland	Man in armour and wife, imperfect, crest of "free miner"
	1447	Northleach	Thomas Fortey, imperfect, William Scors, both in civilian costume and their wife Agnes, head missing, with 2 groups of children and canopy, both imperfect
	1450	Chipping Campden	William Welley in civilian costume and wife Alice
	c. 1450	Lechlade	Wool merchant and wife
	1459	Northleach	John Fortey in civilian costume with canopy
	c. 1460	Temple Church, Bristol	A priest, palimpsest
	1461	St Peter's, Bristol	Robert Lond, chaplain
	1461	Rodmarton	John Edward in civilian costume
	1462	Cirencester	William Prelatte in armour and 2 wives Agnes and Joan
	1467	Chipping Campden	John Lethenard in civilian dress and wife Joan
	c. 1470	Cirencester	William Notyngham in civilian dress, imperfect, and wife Christine
	1475	St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol	Philip(?) Mede in tabard and 2 wives
	1478	St John's, Bristol	Thomas Rowley in civilian dress and wife Margaret
	1478	Cirencester	Ralph Parsons, priest
	c. 1480	St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol	John Jay, civilian, and wife Joan
	c. 1480	Cirencester	A priest
	c. 1480	Cirencester	Civilian and wife
	1484	Chipping Campden	William Gybbys, civilian and 3 wives: Alice, Margaret and Marion
	c. 1485	Mitcheldean	Wives of Thomas Baynham(d.1499/1500): (1)Margaret Hody (left) and (2)Alice Walwyn (right)
	c. 1485	Northleach	Woolman and wife
	1493	Tormarton	John Ceysyll, civilian
	1497	Cirencester	John Benet, civilian, imperfect, and wife Joan
	1497	Sevenhampton	John Camber, civilian
	1500	Fairford	John Tame in armour and wife Alice
	c. 1500	Cirencester	Civilian, imperfect, head restored
	c. 1500	Minchinhampton	Civilian and wife
	1501	Northleach	William Midwinter and his wife
	1501	Northleach	Robert Serche and his wife Anne
	1526	Northleach	Thomas Busshe and his wife Johane
	1530	Northleach	William Lander, priest
	c. 1571	Thornbury, Glos	Avice Tyndall
	1505	Olveston	Denys brass, Maurice Denys and son Sir Walter Denys, both in armour]
	c.1510	Lechlade	John Twynyho (?) wool merchant
	1534	Fairford	Sir Edmund Tame I and wives (1)Agnes Greville, to his left (2)Elizabeth Tyringham, to his right

References

1. Davis (1881–2), pp. 339–344.
2. Davis (1881–2) p. 339 gives date as 1401.
3. Davis (1881–2) p. 339 gives date of 1392.

Sources

• Davis, Cecil T. (1881-2) List of Monumental Brasses in Gloucestershire, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol. 6, Transactions at Gloucester.
• Davis Cecil T. (1899) The Monumental Brasses of Gloucestershire.