Medieval source material on the internet: Funeral monuments

Funeral monuments

For a brief guide to funeral monuments, click here

For a selection of images of monumental brasses on the internet, click here

For some medieval records in Ancestry's UK and Ireland Collection, click here

• List of brass rubbings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford [not available, 20 June 2019]
  An index to these has been compiled by Julian Goodwyn.
• Brass Rubbings Collection (Hamline University)
  High-resolution images of about 1100 English brass rubbings, mostly from the 15th and 16th centuries, searchable by surname and place name, with detailed descriptive notes.
• The County Series: a series of fully illustrated guides to the monumental brasses of the British Isles (William Lack, H. Martin Stuchfield and Philip Whittemore)
  There are name indexes online for the county volumes published so far in this comprehensive survey [copies at the Internet Archive]:
  • Bedfordshire
  • Berkshire
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cheshire
  • Cornwall
  • Cumberland and Westmorland
  • Derbyshire
  • Devon
  • Dorset
  • Durham
  • Essex
  • Gloucestershire
  • Hampshire
  • Isle of Wight
  • Herefordshire
  • Hertfordshire
  • Huntingdonshire
• Topographical index to Monumental Brass Society Transactions, Bulletins and Portfolios 1887-2016 (William Lack)
  Index to churches mentioned in the publications of the society; the index itself is in PDF format
• Monumental Brass Society Bulletin, 113-144 (2010-2020)
  
• A number of medieval monuments are illustrated and described in the Church Monuments section of the Churchmouse website [no longer available; copy at archive.today].
• Thomas Dingley (with and introduction and descriptive table of contents by John Gough Nichols), History from Marble. Volume 1. (1867) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Camden Society, number 94. Facsimile of 17th-century notes on funeral monuments in many churches and chapels.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• Thomas Dingley (with and introduction and descriptive table of contents by John Gough Nichols), History from Marble. Volume 2. (1867) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Camden Society, number 97. Facsimile of 17th-century notes on funeral monuments in many churches and chapels.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• G. Blacker Morgan, ed., Catalogue of the Tombs In the Churches of the City of London, A.D. 1666. (1885) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Alphabetical list of tombs in the churches of London, based on a work by Payne Fisher published in 1668, but supplemented by information from Stow's Survey of London and other sources.
  [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
• Thomas Wilson, A Verbatim Copy of all the Monuments, Gravestones and other Sepulchral memorials in Ripon Cathedral and its Burial Ground (1847) (Andrew Richards)
  Images and transcript (in progress)
• John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments. (1631) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  Early work recording a large number of monumental inscriptions in south-east England, many of which have since been destroyed.
• John Weever, Antient Funeral Monuments. (1767) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]