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

• S.O.M.I.T. (Sources of Monument Inscription Transcriptions; Gerald Parker, St Martin's Church, Castleton, Lancs)
  List of places in England for which monumental inscriptions have been transcribed. The bulk of these are modern inscriptions in churchyards, but many transcripts include surviving medieval inscriptions inside churches
• List of brass rubbings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  An index to these has been compiled by Julian Goodwyn.
• 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)
  Details of the county volumes published so far in this comprehensive survey, including name indexes for:
  • Bedfordshire
  • Berkshire
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cheshire
  • Cornwall
  • Cumberland and Westmorland
  • Derbyshire
  • Devon
  • Dorset
  • Durham
  • Essex
• Topographical index to Monumental Brass Society Transactions, Bulletins and Portfolios 1887-2002 (William Lack)
  Index to churches mentioned in the publications of the society; the index itself is in PDF format
• Index to Monumental Brass Society Bulletins 1-100 1972-2005 (William Lack)
  Index in three sections: (1) to churches mentioned; (2) general index to the bulletins; (3) to books and important papers reviewed or described; the index itself is in PDF format
• A number of medieval monuments are illustrated and described in the Church Monuments and Cadaver Tombs sections of the Churchmouse website
• 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)