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.

List of monumental brasses of Gloucestershire

ImageDateLocationName
c. 1370WinterbourneA lady of the Bradestone family
1396Temple Church, BristolCivilian, half-length
1400DeerhurstSir John Cassy and wife Alice, with canopy
c. 1400CirencesterWine merchant and wife Margaret, imperfect with canopy
c. 1400NorthleachJohn Taylour and wife Joane
1401Chipping CampdenWilliam Greville and wife Marion, with canopy
c. 1411Trinity Church, BristolJohn Barstaple
c. 1411Trinity Church, BristolIsabella, wife of John Barstaple
1416DyrhamMaurice Russell, knight
1417Wooton-under-EdgeThomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley
c. 1430QuintonJoan Clopton with canopy
1438CirencesterRichard Dixton in armour, with canopy
1439St Mary Redcliffe, BristolSir John Juyn in judicial costume
1440CirencesterRobert Page in civilian costume and wife Margaret, 6 sons, 8 daughters with canopy
1442CirencesterReginald Spyeer in civilian costume and 4 wives: Margaret, Juliana, Margaret and Joan
c. 1445NewlandMan in armour and wife, imperfect, crest of "free miner"
1447NorthleachThomas Fortey, imperfect, William Scors, both in civilian costume and their wife Agnes, head missing, with 2 groups of children and canopy, both imperfect
1450Chipping CampdenWilliam Welley in civilian costume and wife Alice
c. 1450LechladeWool merchant and wife
1459NorthleachJohn Fortey in civilian costume with canopy
c. 1460Temple Church, BristolA priest, palimpsest
1461St Peter's, BristolRobert Lond, chaplain
1461RodmartonJohn Edward in civilian costume
1462CirencesterWilliam Prelatte in armour and 2 wives Agnes and Joan
1467Chipping CampdenJohn Lethenard in civilian dress and wife Joan
c. 1470CirencesterWilliam Notyngham in civilian dress, imperfect, and wife Christine
1491St Mary Redcliffe, BristolRichard Mede in tabard and 2 wives, to right Juliana/Anne Pauncefoot, left Elizabeth Sharp
1478St John's, BristolThomas Rowley in civilian dress and wife Margaret
1478CirencesterRalph Parsons, priest
c. 1480St Mary Redcliffe, BristolJohn Jay, civilian, and wife Joan
c. 1480CirencesterA priest
c. 1480CirencesterCivilian and wife
1484Chipping CampdenWilliam Gybbys, civilian and 3 wives: Alice, Margaret and Marion
c. 1485MitcheldeanWives of Thomas Baynham: Margaret Hody and Alice Walwyn
c. 1485NorthleachWoolman and wife
1493TormartonJohn Ceysyll, civilian
1497CirencesterJohn Benet, civilian, imperfect, and wife Joan
1497SevenhamptonJohn Camber, civilian
1500FairfordJohn Tame in armour and wife Alice
c. 1500CirencesterCivilian, imperfect, head restored
c. 1500MinchinhamptonCivilian and wife
1501NorthleachWilliam Midwinter and his wife
1501NorthleachRobert Serche and his wife Anne
1526NorthleachThomas Busshe and his wife Johane
1530NorthleachWilliam Lander, priest
c. 1571Thornbury, GlosAvice Tyndall
1505OlvestonDenys brass, Maurice Denys and son Sir Walter Denys, both in armour]
c.1510LechladeJohn Twynyho wool merchant
1534FairfordSir Edmund Tame I and wives Agnes Greville, to his left Elizabeth Tyringham, to his right