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Sir Thomas of Canterbury

£174.49

C1500 Edenham, Lincolnshire

Dimensions of whole product (figure may lay within this):

Height in inches: 38

Width in inches: 15

Weight in kg: 5.5

Full Scale, Replica or Theme? Reduced Scale

This finely engraved brass is unique in that until 1910 it was mounted forty feet up on the outside of the church tower, from where it looked out over the delightful Lincolnshire countryside for over four hundred years.

In the time of King Henry VIII, when the final break with the Church of Rome took place in England, Henry's emissaries travelled the kingdom seeking out and destroying all relics of the famous English Saint. The position of this brass, however, ensured it's safety: as local legend has it, "Henry just did not have a long enough ladder"!

No records exist to indicate who is commemorated by the brass but from the rivet holes - still visible by the tower clock - he was depicted as a small figure kneeling at the feet of, and being blessed by, the Archbishop

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Animal Mini Brass Rubbing Kit

£2.37

Each kit presents an animal in black resin, mounted onto a stiff cardboard backing, supplied with a stick of brass rubbing wax and ten sheets of paper.

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Cirencester Brass Rubbing Wax - Special Colours

£3.53

Green Wax can be used particularly for multi coloured brass rubbings where special effects are sought. The wax gives a metallic finish

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Green Spirit Woman - Greenman wall plaque

£12.93

Resin Green Man Wall Plaque

Size - 5.0ins. x 5.0ins. (12.6 cm x 12.6 cm)

Hark! The Greenspirit

She comes

And now is with thee:

Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,

Whether the summer clothe the general earth

With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing

Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch

Of mossy apple tree….

This fabulous wall plaque was designed, sculpted and manufactured in England, using resin-bonded Marble, Terracotta or Cotswold stone. Modern moulding techniques faithfully reproduce the intricate and painstaking work of the sculptor whilst giving the appearance of real carved stone or sculpted terracotta.

Since resin is completely weatherproof, you can hang this impressive Greenman Wall plaque either inside or outside the home

Truly a Beautiful and unique Gift Idea, well presented in an attractive, 'leatherette' style, burgundy coloured box.

A hole is provided in the rear for simple hanging.

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Cirencester Brass Rubbing Wax Standard Colours

£2.12

A range of brass rubbing wax in assorted colours. This wax is a good 'all-rounder' and suitable for children and adults alike.
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Anne Boleyn 2nd Queen of Henry VIII 1507-36

£88.13

Height in inches: 17

Width in inches: 10

Weight in kg: 2.1

Full Scale, Replica or Theme? Theme (BLACK OUTER)

Anne was the daughter of sir Thomas Bullen of Hever in Kent. Her elder sister, Mary, was Henry VIII's mistress in about 1520, and Anne owed much to her swift rise to favour at Court to her sister.

As lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine, Anne caught the eye of Henry, who became infatuated by her dark beauty and winning wiles. But she had no intention of becoming just another of his mistresses and this gave impetus to Henry's plans to obtain a divorce from Atherine of Aragon. In his pursuit of a male heir he married Anne in 1533 and she bore him a daughter, Elizabeth (later to become Elizabeth I).

But after she miscarried of a boy child, her failure to produce a male heir and the plotting of her enemies led to her fall from favour and eventual execution on a charge of adultery.

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Elizabeth I

£70.50

Height in inches: 17

Width in inches: 7.5

Weight in kg: 1.4

Full Scale, Replica or Theme? Theme (BLACK OUTER)

The Elizabethan era lasted for forty five brilliant years. The execution of Mary Stuart, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the naval supremacy of England, the extension of the colonies and the glory of a great new literature of which Shakespeare was the brightest jewel are features associated with her reign.
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Henry VIII

£70.50

Height in inches: 17

Width in inches: 7.5

Weight in kg: 1.4

Full Scale, Replica or Theme? Theme (BLACK OUTER)

The first sovereign to bear the title "Majesty", Henry's reighn is noted for his quarrels with the Church of Rome, the Dissolution of the Monastries and his half-dozen matrimonial exploits. Less known is the foundation of the modern navy with the establishment of the Navy Office in 1546

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Presentation Tubes

£1.18

Gold finished Cardboard tubes 16 inches long, supplied with a pair of end-caps with which to seal the tube, which can be used to transport your Brass Rubbing, or as a presentation tube if you wish to make a gift!
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Masking Tape

£2.12

Our masking tape is designed to secure the paper to the surface to be rubbed. The tape is designed to be lifted from the paper with the minimum of disturbance to the top surface.

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Sir Richard Catesbury

Price: £148.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Quantity:

1553

Ashby St Legers, Northamptonshire

Size 38" by 15"

Weight in kg: 6.0

Sir Richard's brass is a fine example of the early Tudor period.

We know little of Sir Richard's life, though the size and quality of this engraving point to his being a wealthy man.

Sir William Catesby was the Esquire to the Body of Richard III, the hated Yorkshire king. It is this Sir William who is referred to in the famous political rhyme of the time, "The cat (Catesby) the rat (Sir Richard Ratclyff) and (Lord) Lovell our dog, rulen all England under an hog". (Richard III's emblem was a white boar).

Sir William was executed in Leicester in 1485 for his part in the Yorkist cause. Alas we do not know if this brass is his son's memorial, though it does seem likely.

Sir Edward and Lady Elyne Cerne

Price: £305.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Quantity:

1393 Draycott Cerne, Wiltshire

Dimensions of whole product (figure may be within this):

Height in inches: 40

Width in inches: 24

Weight in kg: 10.0

Full Scale, Replica or Theme? Full Scale

The indent on the original slab shows that the top of the cushion and the upper part of the helmet with Sir Edward's tournament crest and two shields are missing. The cushion and helmet have been restored in the facsimile. Sir Edward succeeded his brother John de Cerne in 1348 and was knighted in 1378, acting as Assessor of Taxes in 1379 and as a Collector in 1382. He married twice and was succeeded by the son of his first marriage to Joan. This brass shows his second wife Elyne, dressed as a vowess, that is, a widow who has taken a vow not to re-marry. Sir Edward wears armour with a scalloped jupon. The sword belt is of hinged plates with decorated panels.

Isabel (Boleyn) Cheyne

Price: £112.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

1485 Blickling, Norfolk

Dimensions of whole product (figure may be within this):

Height in inches: 30

Width in inches: 11

Weight in kg: 3.5

Full Scale, Replica or Theme? Full Scale

Isabel was the daughter of Geoffrey Boleyn and great-aunt to Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I. Isabel married William Cheyne of Sheppey, Kent and the three-quarter profile of this brass suggests it was designed to be one of a pair.

The open hands, the dress and the necklace are almost identical to that worn by Margaret Francis and Margaret Peyton at Isleham, Cambridgeshire. This would seem to point to all three brasses coming from the same workshop.

Isabel wears the 'butterfly' headdress, in which the hair is pulled back from the face into the nets. On top of the nets a framework of wires was erected and over these a fine gauze veil was draped.

John and Alice Chudderle

Price: £127.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Circa 1475 Hinton St. George, Somerset

Dimensions of whole product (figure may be within this):

Height in inches: 24

Width in inches: 16.5

Weight in kg: 4.2

Full Scale, Replica or Theme? Full Scale

This brass is now restored to it's original home in Hinton St' George; at sometime it was found in an outhouse on Lady dormer's Warwickshire estate. The two figures are turned slightly towards each other. John is wearing armour fashionable during the Wars of the Roses (1455 - 85), designed for comfort and manoeuvrability, the helmet with visored sallet gave a wider field of vision with easier breathing facilities than earlier types. Alice, daughter of William Blythermore, was previously married to Sir John Juyn. She wears a fur-trimmed gown with butterfly headdress, highly fashionable for the period. Thomasine, their only child, married William Champernon in 1457.

Dame Margaret Chute (standard)

Price: £58.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

1614 Marden, Herefordshire

Dimensions of whole product (figure may be within this):

Height in inches: 21

Width in inches: 7

Weight in kg: 1.5

Full Scale, Replica or Theme? Replica

All that is known about Dame Margaret appears in her inscription which is worth reproducing here.

"Underneath this monument lyeth the body of Dame Margaret the moste deer wife of Sir George Chute Knight and daughter and sole heyre of Thomas Welford of Wisteston esquier deceased: whose piete and vertues deserve to survive in the memoire of men until this her bodie shall live againe reunited to her blessed soule to live with her redeemer for ever. She had by her saide husband 2 daughters onelinie, Anne and Francis, which Francis dyed ye first day of her birth. Her said mother following her the next daye after beinge the nionthe daye of June anno 1614"

Dame Margaret is depicted wearing an elaborate court dress with a most extraordinary arrangement of the hair, drawn up into points like a halo.

Sir John Clerke

Price: £75.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Dimensions of whole product (figure may be within this):

Height in inches: 17.5

Width in inches: 13

Weight in kg: 2.4

Full Scale, Replica or Theme? Full Scale

The first recorded nameof this family is Richard Clerke of Willoughby. Some members of the family were benefactors of Magdallen college, Oxford. Sir John is the fourth generation on. The brass shows him kneeling, wearing an heraldic tabard with a scroll above his head. The inscription describes his part in the Battle of Spurs in Frnace in 1513, when he took prisoner Louise d'Orleans, Duke of Longueville. The ransom he received for his prisoner paid for the rebuilding of his manor near Thame. Sir John also received from Henry VIII a grant of the canton of honorable augmentation, still borne in the family arms. The family received an Earldom in 1660, the year Charles II became King. The family still hold the title of Earl of Hitcham in Buckinghamshire. The 9th baronet served in the 52nd Regiment at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

John Compton

Price: £75.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Dimensions of whole product (figure may be within this):

Height in inches: 23

Width in inches: 10

Weight in kg: 2.5

Full Scale, Replica or Theme? Full Scale

The fourteenth and early fifteenth century are generally agreed to be the best periods for brass engraving. The designs were dignified and elegant, as the brass to John and Margery Compton testify. Their memorial includes an inscription and brasses depicting their four sons and seven daughters. John is shown wearing the complete Plate or Lancastrian armour. The Church at dinton is old and very beautiful and contains anumber of monumental brasses, the Compton brass being the earliest. Another brass commemorates Simon and Colubery Mayne. Their son Simon was a friend of Oliver Cromwell and a regicide-one of the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I. For this act he was sent to the Tower where he died in 1661.

Margery Compton

Price: £75.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Dimensions of whole product (figure may be within this):

Height in inches: 23

Width in inches: 10

Weight in kg: 2.5

Full Scale, Replica or Theme? Full Scale

Margery Compton was the daughter of Brian Harley and the wife of John Crompton. Her brass forms part of a memorial which includes her husband and their four sons and eleven daughters (also included in our collection).

Margery is depicted wearing a simple gown with full sleeves close to the wrist, almost identical in detail to that worn by elizabeth Poyler-a brass of the same date. On her head she wears a most unusual version of the Crespine headdress, where the hair is gathered into wide nets on each side of the face, level with the top of the head, and a veil is pinned on top and falls onto the shoulders.

Elizabeth Culpeper

Price: £90.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Quantity:

r 1634 Ardingly, Sussex

Dimensions of whole product (figure may lay within this):

Height in inches: 19

Width in inches: 11

Weight in kg: 2.3

Full Scale, Replica or Theme? Full Scale

Elizabeth was the young daughter of Sir William Culpeper and his wife Jane. Separate monuments to children are relatively rare and there can be little doubt that this one owes it's existence to the fact that when she died,m a brass was being engraved for her grandmother, Dame Elizabeth Culpeper (another brass in this series) and the same engraver was asked to make one for the grand daughter too. Both these brasses are among the better examples of the period and may be attrubuted to the workshop of Edward Marshall. Elizabeth described as "a childe of 7 years old" is dressed in the same style as her grandmother though more simply, the cuffs are plain and the embroidery on the underskirt is less elaborate.

Paul Dayrell

Price: £122.25 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

1491 Lillingstone Dayrell Buckinghamshire

Dimensions of whole product (figure may be within this):

Height in inches: 31

Width in inches: 13.5

Weight in kg: 4.5

Full Scale, Replica or Theme? Full Scale

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The ancient family spelles De Hayrel, Darell or Dayrell is asaid to derive its name from D'Airelle, a Normandy province. The name is in the Roll of Battle Abbey with the followers of the Norman Conquerors. The family were the earliest owners of lands in this county, "Lelinchestane" was surveyed among the lands of Walter Giffard at that time. The Manor of Lillingstone continues in the Dayrell family. The latest stone in the church commemorates Charles Gerald Marmaduke Dayrell in 1971, and one of the earliest recorded is Elias Dairel in 1195. The church treasures were confiscated under Henry VIII but in 1552, the son of Paul Dayrell received back a chalice and patend from the Commissioners of Edward VI

Margaret Dayrell

Price: £122.25 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

1491 Lillingstone Dayrell, Buckinghamshire

Dimensions of whole product (figure may be within this):

Height in inches: 31

Width in inches: 13.5

Weight in kg: 4.3

Full Scale, Replica or Theme? Full Scale

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The finely engraved brass to Margaret is one half of a family of memorial which includes her husband, Paul. Margaret is wearing a long flowing gown trimmed with fur around the wide turned down collar, and around the hem. With narrow sleeves and cuffs that cover half her hands, this dress could have been made of wool or velvet. By the late Middle ages the Italians were producing magnificent velvets much favoured by wealthy landowners and English aristocracy. The headdress is typical of the period. The hair is taken back from the forehead into nets, upon which rests a large framework of wire, covered by a gauze veil. No doubt it was attractive, but looks clumsy when drawn on brass. The head is shown in three-quarter pose especially to display the headdress.

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St Thomas of Canterbury

Price: £148.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Sir Richard Catesbury

Price: £148.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Sir Edward and Lady Elyne Cerne

Price: £305.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Isabel (Boleyn) Cheyne

Price: £112.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Margaret Cheyne

Price: £75.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

John and Alice Chudderle

Price: £127.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Dame Margaret Chute (standard)

Price: £58.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Dame Margaret Chute (full size)

Price: £135.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

John and Johanne Clenarts

Price: £157.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Sir John Clerke

Price: £75.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Coat of Arms of Sir John Clerke

Price: £127.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

John Compton

Price: £75.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Margery Compton

Price: £75.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Sons of John and Margery Compton

Price: £45.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Daughters of John and Margery Compton

Price: £45.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Elizabeth Culpeper

Price: £90.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Sir Nicholas Dagworth

Price: £675.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Sir Giles Daubeney

Price: £262.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Lady Joan Daubeney

Price: £262.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Paul Dayrell

Price: £122.25 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

Margaret Dayrell

Price: £122.25 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)