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We offer a focus for those with an interest in church monuments of all types and periods. Posts by @heritagepilgrim.bsky.social
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Timeless Vistas, Silent Histories.

Wirrabara Cemetery, Wirrabara, South Australia.

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓖𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽.

#cemetery #cemeteries #grave #graves #gravestone #graveyard #taphophile #gardensofthesilent #southaustralia #photography #cemeteryphotography #cemeterylovers
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Remembering Mary, wife of former engine tenter John Clay, who died on this day in 1857 at the age of 54.
December 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Denton war memorial tablet. St. Andrew’s Church, Denton, Lincolnshire. First World War. #LestWeForget
December 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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The Lace Lady at Isleham, Cambridgeshire: Thomas Peyton's brass (d.1484) at St Andrew's features one of England's most exceptional monumental brass figures.
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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#TombTuesday 🥳 At the majestic Coetan Arthur #Neolithic chambered tomb on St David's Head, #Pembrokeshire in October 2022, among springs & outcrops.

Looking forward to returning this week. 📷 October 2022
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Late sixteenth-century altar tomb with effigies of Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (1495–1568) and his two wives in the Wharton chapel of the Parish Church of Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria.
#TombTuesday
December 9, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. Fantastic grave marker to someone called Silus, probably 6th century.
December 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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should probably have used this to publicise the fact that I could really do with a bit of volunteer help on these (digitised) letters! collections.sal.org.uk/san.19.02

can promise you that 1. it's pretty straighforward and 2. one of them contains a very cute drawing. DMs are open
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Portrait of Victorian mourning for Jane P. Ard Wright (1877-1898). Her die-in-socket headstone was a prevalent style for the late 1800s. The bas-relief Lily of the Valley carving (also popular) symbolizes innocence, purity, & humility. To be memorialized as both dau. & wife suggests recent marriage.
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Remembering former Halifax innkeeper John Robinson, who died on this day in 1865 at the age of 47. John was landlord of the Pine Apple Inn, North Bridge, Halifax.
December 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
Embossed mourning card for Ellen Butler, who died in 1900 framed in an elaborate mat of embossed angels, weeping willows, and a broken pillar, with silver highlights.
Found on Pinterest with no further attribution.
December 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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St Michael, Ledbury.

John Hamilton, the beloved infant son of John Martin and Maria Henrietta, his wife.
Born April 23rd, 1850. Died March 18th, 1851.

Sculpture by John & Mary Thornycroft, featured at the Great Exhibition in 1851.

#adventangels #monumentsmonday
December 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Also Wayne Hart's fascinating exploration of the craft of handcutting inscriptions www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-4E...
December 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It's Advent, we should be thinking about the Four Last Things - and now you can revisit Cóilín Ó Drisceoil's All Hallows lecture from 2024 on excavating the chantry chapels at St Mary's Kilkenny www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1D4...
December 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Just a smashing wormed corpse on this 16th century grave I spotted the other day in the cemetery of St. Peter in Salzburg's old town. Check out the toad detail...
December 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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10 year plan for Wardsend Cemetery Heritage Park!
December 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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In Memory of Mʳ Samuel
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Year of his Age.
December 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The Govan Sarcophagus was discovered by the sexton while digging a grave in the grounds of the old church #OTD in 1855. Dating from around AD 900, it is the only sarcophagus carved from solid stone known from pre-Norman northern Britain. 📸The Govan Stones / Sketchfab #medievalsky
December 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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#StandingStoneSunday
Stood at Cwrt Dafydd farm, south of Margam, where they were found reused to form a footbridge across a stream. They are known as 'cart-wheel' crosses, and so named from the radial form of the cross head, like the wheels of a cart. 10thC.
📸My own #History
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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On Friday I shook hands with a gravestone
December 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Remembering 4-year-old Ely and his 2-year-old brother George, who died on the 7th and 8th December 1850, respectively. The brothers were the sons of painter George (d. 1875) and Susan Wadsworth (d. 1892).
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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When I saw these skele geezer, my eyes nearly escaped their sockets
December 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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A solemn marble sentinel.

Milang Cemetery, Milang, South Australia.

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓖𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽.

#cemetery #cemeteries #grave #graves #gravestone #graveyard #taphophile #gardensofthesilent #southaustralia #photography #cemeteryphotography #cemeterylovers
December 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM