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Ruhrlaubszeit @ruhrlaubszeit.bsky.social · 17h

#31DaysOfGraves Tag 14: Innen / Inside
Im "Tal der Könige" oder auch Theben-West in Ägypten. Wohl behütet ist diese Grabkammer mitten im Berg in der Nähe von Luxor.

Chamber inside the Mountain in the "Valley of the Kings" near Luxor, Egypt

Beleuchtete Innenwand einer ägyptischen Grabkammer mit Relief-Darstellungen von Pharaonen, Hieroglyphen und geometrischen Mustern in warmem Goldton.

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Flâneuse | mallow era @wertvollel.bsky.social · 19h

#31DaysOfGraves

Day14: Inside / Innen

Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1786 - 1859)

Historical cemetery Weimar

The Russian Orthodox Chapel is a funerary chapel built in Weimar in 1860 for Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. It was constructed in the Historical Cemetery behind the Weimarer Fürstengruft, to which it is connected by an underground passage. Maria Pavlovna's coffin is located in the passage, with her husband Charles Frederick's coffin placed directly beside

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 19h

#31daysofgraves #14 Inside
The crypts at Elyria Mausoleum in (I'm assuming) Ridgelawn Cemetery, Elyria, Ohio. c. 1915-1920 Photographed by Frank A. Day.
Personal collection
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

A black and white photograph of two men standing inside a mausoleum. There are wreaths and bouquets at a couple of the crypts.

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 19h

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 14 - Inside

I took this picture inside the Highgate Catacombs on a tour last year. Shortly after this the tour guide asked if I wanted to volunteer because I looked the part and I sadly had to say "sorry, I have to go back to Canada!"

The long hallway of the Highgate Catacombs with round skylights periodically along the ceiling. On the left wall are niches for caskets.

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 14h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 14: Inside

Brasses taken from tombstones on the floor of St Michael’s church in my #OnePlaceStudy of Waters Upton in #Shropshire, and mounted on the South wall when the church was rebuilt in 1864. Transcriptions on my website: waters-upton.uk/memorial-ins...

Photo of a tablet on a wall, bearing five monumental brasses. An explanatory sign mounted at the foot of the tablet reads: "These brasses were taken from Tombstones which were on the floor of the aisle of the old Church 1864".

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lostinhistory @lostinhistory.bsky.social · 8h

#31DaysOfGraves day 13: skeleton

A little guy from Montmartre Cemetery, Paris

A small winged skeleton, grinning wildly, shoves a boat beneath the waves.

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lostinhistory @lostinhistory.bsky.social · 4d

#31DayOfGraves day 10: urn

Montmartre Cemetery, Paris

A large grey urn with a green cloth and ivy wrapped around it. Both are metal, with the cloth and ivy having a green patina.

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Pacoulmag @pacoulmag.bsky.social · 5h

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 15: Damaged
Sir Nicholas Montgomery, 1492, dressed as a knight, feet resting on his pet, but missing his legs,
St Andrew, Great Cubley, #Derbyshire

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 5h

Day 13 - Skeleton

#31daysofgraves

An old weathered gravestone stands in a grassy churchyard surrounded by other headstones. The top of the stone is elaborately carved with a skull surrounded by leaves and vines, symbolizing mortality. The inscription below is partly in Latin and partly in English, its letters softened by time and moss. It reads in part: “In spem Beatae Resurrectionis Hic reconditum est quicquid Mortale fuit… Judith… Daughter of Matthew Nicholas…” and dates to October 6th, 1748. The lower portion mentions that Judith was aged 14 years. The stone’s age and ornate memento mori carving give it a haunting yet reverent beauty, evocative of 18th-century funerary art.

Latin translation:

“In the hope of a Blessed Resurrection,
Here is laid whatever was mortal
of Judith, daughter of Matthew Nicholas, Master of Arts,
of Shalford in the County of Surrey,
who returned her soul to God
on the 6th of October, 1748,
aged 14 years.”

The combination of Latin and English was common at that time for educated families, particularly clergy or scholars (the “A.M.” stands for Artium Magister, or Master of Arts).

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Marisa Fez @marisafez.bsky.social · 12h

#31daysofgraves
14. Inside 🚪
Abbey Church of La Mota — Alcalá la Real (Jaén) 🇪🇸

Beneath Sta. María Mayor Church lies a —probably— Visigothic necropolis carved in stone, twelve crypts deep and walls plenty of Renaissance arcosolia echoing centuries of faith and silence.

Jaén never stops amazing me 💘

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 3h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 15 Damaged

I don't suppose in 1848, when St John's Churchyard #Nelson, ( then #GreatMarsden ) opened anyone thought of land management and irrigation?
As a result, the exposed sloping northern side has lots of land movement, damaging graves as it goes.

#Graveyard problems...

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 3h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 15: Damaged. Broken stones in Kilmadock old churchyard. It’s an interesting place to visit in an idyllic spot near Doune in Stirlingshire

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Gardens Of The Silent @gardensofthesilent.bsky.social · 2h

The Weight of Time: Ornate crosses stand as solemn markers against the vineyard backdrop

St Johns Cemetery, Tanunda, Sth Australia

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓖𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽.

#cemetery #cemeteries #gravestone #graveyard #gardensofthesilent #southaustralia #photography #cemeteryphotography

Black and white photograph of an old cemetery with multiple ornate tombstones and crosses, featuring a large, tiered central monument with a decorative cross on top.

The foreground graves are surrounded by white marble edging and gravel. Immediately behind the graves, a wooden fence separates the cemetery from a bare, winter vineyard stretching across the mid-ground.

A line of eucalyptus and scrub trees stands in the distant background. The bottom left is signed "© Kev Peirce".

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2h

The headstone of Robert Lincoln Andrews, 1907, holed by a machine gun bullet from a German plane strafing a navigation beacon in the next field during WWII, at Rushmere St Michael, Suffolk.

More: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/rushmerestmi...

#31daysofgraves 15: damaged

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 16h

#31DaysofGraves Day 14: Inside - mortsafe cages in Ramshorn Kirkyard, Glasgow.
Designed to keep bodies inside their graves, safe from the attentions of the 'Resurrection Men' who supplied corpses to Glasgow's medical schools for dissection.

Photograph of two mortsafe cages covering two family graves adjoining the inner walls of Ramshorn Kirkyard & surrounded by green trees and grass.

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 15h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 13 Inside

Upto not long a go some were not permitted to be buried INSIDE the parish cemetery, inside consecrated ground.

Unbaptised babies, non-Catholics, suicides were not allowed inside. Many were buried in Cillíní - small liminal spaces, bits of fields

#Derrymore #Kerry

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Cape Cod Adventure Pictures @capecodpictures.bsky.social · 16h

Unmarked headstones at Provincetown Pest House/Smallpox Cemetery

#Graveyard #Cemetery #CemeteryPhotography #photography #Gravestone #Headstone #GraveyardPhotography #31DaysofGraves #Provincetown #CapeCod #BlueskyArtShow #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersofBluesky

NO 12 is the grave of William H. Butler Died 01/07/1873 age unknown

NO 4 is the grave of Elizabeth Hill who died 05/20/1860 aged 51

NO 5 is the grave of Kennis Fergerson who died 05/20/1860 aged 22

NO 10 is the grave of Frank Sofrine who died 12/24/1872 aged unknown

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn.bsky.social · 17h

#31DaysOfGraves #Day14Inside
Tomb of Godolphin Arabian #inside Wandlebury House stable block near Cambridge; he is believed to be one of the three stallions that founded the modern Thoroughbred in horse racing 🏇
#TombTuesday #GodolphinArabian

The tomb of Godolphin Arabian inside Wandlebury House Stable block near Cambridge; it is set into the floor, close to a wall and surrounded by cobblestones

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 15h

A sorry sight and a frequent problem.

Norma Explores @normaexplores.bsky.social · 19h

Day 14 of #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'inside'

Not an intentional interior viewing of this collapsed vault, photographed last year.

📍St Thomas a Becket, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire.

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Holundra 🐌 @holundra.bsky.social · 19h

Tag 14 • Inside / Innen

Brockdorffsche Gruft
📍 Dreifaltigkeitskirche Krusendorf

Mehr Fotos und Infos: holundra.de/2025/03/drei...

#31DaysOfGraves #cemetery #graveyard

Crypt in black and white with 2 windows and 2 coffins

2 coffins in black stone, decorated with white coat of arms and crucifix

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Holundra 🐌 @holundra.bsky.social · 20h

Tag 14 • Inside / Innen

Alt-Bülker Begräbnis
📍 Kirche Dänischenhagen

Mehr Fotos und Infos: holundra.de/2025/06/kirc...

#31DaysOfGraves #cemetery #graveyard

Mausoleum with 30 different styled coffins, The window can be opened to have a look into the room.

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Friends of Wombwell Cemetery @fowcemetery.bsky.social · 23h

Day 14: Inside. #31DaysOfGraves

Something a bit different today. Here is a before and after of the 'inside' of our chapel, renovated in 2016.

On the left is the photo of the chapel before with bare stone walls and debris on the ground, including some old dirty furniture. To the right is the photo of the chapel after. The walls are an off white having been plastered, with a wooden skirting, the floor is carpet, and there are pictures hung on the wall. The old cross is also restored and put back on the wall.

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Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · 15h

Bonus tomb carving: this late C13 (probably) cross slab was reused as the lintel for one of the crypt windows

Head of cross slab with fleur-de-lys finials, reused as window lintel

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 16h

Day 14 of #31DaysOfGraves - Inside

Here are just two monuments from the extraordinary assemblage of 14th-15th century graveslabs that are now housed within the reroofed former Prior's house within the ruins of the Augustinian priory on the island of Oronsay.

These were most likely MacDuffie chiefs

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Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · 15h

Today in #31DaysofGraves is Inside - so here's the crypt at Llanblethian, closed off for centuries and found during repair work in late C19, full of skeletons (they are now reburied in the churchyard).

Church crypt with light through ground-level windows

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