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Just a girl who likes to take walks in cemeteries. I love old churches, cathedrals, forgotten places, and cats. Lover of nature. All photos in media are my own. Alt text friendly.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · Mar 7

Spring rain in Highgate is kind of magic.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 10h

Also! I found this - seemed she liked to eat them when she did her best thinking !

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 11h

I think the apple is in reference to one of her short stories! www.agathachristie.com/en/stories/t...

The Apples of Hesperides by Agatha Christie

One of Poirot's labours - a beautiful chalice is stolen from an auction house, and the buyer wants it found. From

www.agathachristie.com

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Julia - Genealogy Journeys @juliagenealogy.bsky.social · 2d

1st gravestone I’ve managed for #31DaysOfGraves Day 12 - Notable Woman. Agatha Christie’s grave in St Mary’s Church Cholsey, Oxfordshire. Not sure about the apple - maybe I could have posted it for Day 10 - Urn 😂

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Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · 2d

Today in #31DaysofGraves it's Notable Women - so how about Gwladus Ddu, a power behind the scenes in C15 SE Wales. The poet Lewys Glyn Cothi described her as ‘y seren o Efenni ... braich i Went a Brychandir’, ‘the star of Abergavenny, the strength of Gwent and Brecon’s land’. At Abergavenny Priory.

Heads of two alabaster effigies, she with butterfly head-dress, he in helm. Crocketed canopies over heads, painted with stars.

Detail of female head of alabaster effigy. Jewelled butterfly head-dress and choker necklace with pendant.

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 2d

Since it's Sunday, one more for #31DaysOfGraves, notable women
- a picture of Haworth Churchyard, resting place of Charlotte and Emily Brontë. It's a beautiful spot, but the photo gives an idea of how crowded it is - apparently somewhere in the region of 40,000 souls lie here, in quite a small plot

Haworth graveyard, Yorkshire. Ranks of gravestones among trees.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 11h

Haworth has been on my list to visit for a long time. One day I hope I can 🤞

🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 11h

I bet she was a wonderful lady. Sending big hugs

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 1d

Day 13 of #31DaysOfGraves - Skeleton

On the leg of a magnificent 18thC table tomb in Liberton Kirkyard, Edinburgh, is carved the figure of death as a skeleton, standing upon a skull, firing a dart at the soon-to-be-deceased while cutting the cord of a weight dangling over the unlucky person's head!

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Yr Spooky Friend Camille @yrouttasight.bsky.social · 1d

#31daysofgraves Day 13: Skeleton

Nmjc, hbu?

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Alison Spring @acspring.bsky.social · 1d

The obverse of a stone in Meigle churchyard (Perthshire). The dedication on the principal side is to Janet Edward, who died in 1737, age 49. Her husband was James Lesly. #31DaysofGraves #Day13 #Skeleton

This gravestone depicts a winged soul above a skeleton that stands between two trumpeting angels and holds an hourglass and an arrow. Other symbols on the stone are tools and a bell.

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Bruderherz @trailchaser.bsky.social · 1d

13 Skelett

Melatenfriedhof Köln.

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Schnitter Tod in wehendem gewandt, aus hellem Stein, dunkel verwittert, die Sense geschultert..

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 1d

#31daysofgraves #13 Skeleton
The monument for Elizabeth Benson, obit 1710, in St Leonard, Shoreditch. Carved by Francis Bird, it shows two gleeful skeletons holding a shroud, vigorously ripping apart the tree of life.
www.speel.me.uk/chlondon/stl...

Carving of two skeletons holding a shroud and tearing a tree in half

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Eine rosa Rose @einerosarose.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysofGraves
Tag 13: Skelett / Skeleton
Grabmalmuseum.
Friedhof Ohlsdorf, Hamburg.

Blick auf ein historischen Grabmal mit einem moosbewachsenem Schädel. Der Schädel liegt oben auf einem runden Stein-Gefäß. Dieses ist beschriftet. Die Schrift ist anber nicht mehr lesbar. Ebenfalls in dem Moos ein Schädel eines kleinen Vogels.

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 14h

Good day all.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 1d

Day 12: Notable Woman

Blanche Roosevelt Macchetta, Marchesa d’Allégri

As always, info in the alt text !

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A full-length grave monument in Brompton Cemetery: a statue of a woman in classical draped robes, standing on a plinth. She holds a small flower in one hand close to her chest; the other hand holds a drape of her dress. Her expression is serene, her feet bare, and she looks slightly left. The base of the monument has an inscription dedicating it to Blanche Roosevelt Macchetta, Marchesa d’Allégri. Surrounding are other gravestones; behind there is a colonnade of arches and grass around the monument.

The base also reads:

By her brilliant accomplishments, and rare graces of mind and person, she gave distinction, in the world or art and literature to the name of Blanche Roosevelt

Info about her In the portrait image >

Blanche Roosevelt Macchetta, Marchesa d’Allégri (1853–1898)

This image is a portrait photograph of Blanche. She has her long hair curled in the front and pinned neatly in a half up style. She wears a white frilled shirt and pearls on her neck.

Born Blanche Isabella Pauline Tucker in Virginia, USA a woman of remarkable talent and grace who found distinction in both the arts and letters. A gifted soprano, she achieved the rare honour of becoming the first American woman to sing Italian opera at London’s Covent Garden. Under the stage name Blanche Roosevelt, she charmed audiences as Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore and created the role of Mabel in the New York premiere of The Pirates of Penzance.

After retiring from the stage, Blanche turned her sharp intellect and cultural curiosity to journalism and writing. Living between Paris, Milan, and London, she moved in the most celebrated artistic circles of her time. She counted among her friends the composer Giuseppe Verdi, the artist Gustave Doré, the novelist Wilkie Collins, and the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, about whom she later wrote. Her biographies and novels reveal a woman deeply engaged with the creative spirit of the nineteenth century, bridging the worlds of music, literature, and art.

In later life, Blanche married an Italian nobleman and became the Marchesa d’Allégri. Her brilliant career was cut short after a tragic carriage accident in Monte Carlo left her gravely injured; she never fully recovered and died in London in 1898, aged forty-four. The statue above her grave serene, classical, and contemplative reflects the elegance and intellect that defined her life. Her portrait shows a beautiful, youthful woman whose talented life was tragically cut short.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 1d

He is very distinguished. 🤭

🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 1d

Working from home means I get to hang out with Magnus all day feeling cosy. (And maybe work)

My tabby cat Magnus sitting/ leaning on a blanket with this front paws outstretched. Magnus has brown fur with black stripes, and big green eyes.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 5d

During a Mast Year for acorns, like this year, squirrels get lazy

A red squirrel with its arms raised above its head

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 2d

#31daysofgraves Day 12 notable women. A famous face in an unmarked grave. Portraits of Elizabeth Johnston(e) Hall (1822-1901) hang in every major photographic collection in the world, but she is buried in a common grave in Warriston. #Edinburgh #PhotoHistory #HillAndAdamson #NewhavenFishwives 1/2

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 2d

#31daysofgraves #12 Notable Woman
The tomb of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, The Panthéon, Paris. When she died in 1934, her body was so radioactive that her coffin was lined with 2.5 millimeters of lead. The bodies of Skłodowska-Curie and her husband, Pierre Curie, were moved to the Panthéon in 1995.

light beige stone classical tombs, one, higher than the other in a niche, a green wreath and multicolor flower nosegay are on the lid of the lower tomb

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 1d

It’s very eye catching isn’t it! When I saw it I immediately had to find out more about him.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 2d

Day 12 of #31DaysOfGraves - Notable Woman

An unassuming slab of stone off the Fife coast at Torryburn covers the mortal remains of Lilias Adie, the only known grave of an accused witch in Scotland

Buried beneath the tidal line by superstitious villagers in 1704, her grave was rediscovered in 2014

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 13 Skeleton

Right order! Nothing to see here!

All our skeletons are in their appropriate place, underground, and no amount of trick or treating is going to bring them out.

Here's a lovely shot of the long avenue instead.

St John's #Graveyard, #Nelson, #Lancashire.

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Welwyn Archaeological Society @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves day 13 skeleton. Lots to choose from for this theme but settled on this tombstone from St John the Devine, Elmswell, Suffolk. The gravestone is for Matthew Marsh who died in 169[5]. The two skeletons are standing on hour glasses which are on top of cherubs and are holding shovels.

Detail on one edge of the tombstone showing a skeleton carving. The proportions are all wrong with the lower half of the body much smaller than the upper. The skull looks like it it is grinning. The skeleton is holding a spade or shovel in its left hand. A description of the rest of the tombstone is given with the second photograph.

$A face-on view of the tombstone. On either edge is a standing skeleton holding a spade in its inside hand. Each skeleton is standing on an hourglass which in turn is on the top of the head of a chubby cherub. At the centre-top of the tombstone is a third cherub head with two outstretched wings either side. Below that is a framed panel with the text. The text reads Memento Mori \ Here lyeth the body of \ Mr Matthew \ Marsh who \ dyed ye 18th of \ Aprill 1695 [the last digit is unclear] \ [in Italics] aetatis suae 52 \ [last line unclear] C...$

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 1d

Great article! Captured what I feel also. Thanks for sharing !