Papers of the Rev. Henry Lawrance on military effigies

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 118 LAH
  • Former Reference
      GB 118 SAL/MS/893
  • Dates of Creation
      c.1927-35
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      pp. 100 and unbound papers The collection is entered in an 18th century folio volume, half leather binding, brown, with marbled boards. Signature on front pastedown, 'Jemima Eleonora Hodgson 1806’.

Scope and Content

Descriptions of military effigies in English churches, with pencil drawings laid down on the interleaves, compiled by the Rev. Henry Lawrance (1871-1947), vicar of Dinting, Glossop, Derbs. See the note by Claude Blair in The Church Monuments Society, 7, no. 1 (Summer 1991), 18. The present collection may be the unpublished work mentioned in the preface, 1948, to Lawrance's Heraldry from Military Monuments before 1350, Harl. Soc. 98 (for 1946). Bibliographical references added throughout. Together with a typed article on 'The effigies of the East Riding', photographs, etc.

Arrangement

Arranged in alphabetical order of locations.

Access Information

open for consultation

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Rev. N.A.H. Lawrance, son of the compiler (see letter, 16 March 1965, with the typed article).

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