All Hallows, Kirkburton
#StainedGlassSunday
#MomentoMoriMonday
Christopher Whall window commemorating Private Ernest A Carter.
A Kirkburton shovel maker and husband to Eva, he embarked for France in Oct 1916. KIA on 7 June 1917, aged 25, he is buried at La Brique Military Cemetery, Belgium.
#StainedGlassSunday
#MomentoMoriMonday
Christopher Whall window commemorating Private Ernest A Carter.
A Kirkburton shovel maker and husband to Eva, he embarked for France in Oct 1916. KIA on 7 June 1917, aged 25, he is buried at La Brique Military Cemetery, Belgium.
November 1, 2026 at 10:29 AM
All Hallows, Kirkburton
#StainedGlassSunday
#MomentoMoriMonday
Christopher Whall window commemorating Private Ernest A Carter.
A Kirkburton shovel maker and husband to Eva, he embarked for France in Oct 1916. KIA on 7 June 1917, aged 25, he is buried at La Brique Military Cemetery, Belgium.
#StainedGlassSunday
#MomentoMoriMonday
Christopher Whall window commemorating Private Ernest A Carter.
A Kirkburton shovel maker and husband to Eva, he embarked for France in Oct 1916. KIA on 7 June 1917, aged 25, he is buried at La Brique Military Cemetery, Belgium.
All Hallows, Kirkburton
#StainedGlassSunday
#MomentoMoriMonday
Christopher Whall’s Art Deco masterpiece.
With no known grave at Gallipoli, this window commemorates 2nd Lt. John Wilfred Carter—a Kirkburton-born linguist and teacher killed in 1915, aged just 23. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial.
#StainedGlassSunday
#MomentoMoriMonday
Christopher Whall’s Art Deco masterpiece.
With no known grave at Gallipoli, this window commemorates 2nd Lt. John Wilfred Carter—a Kirkburton-born linguist and teacher killed in 1915, aged just 23. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial.
November 1, 2026 at 10:29 AM
All Hallows, Kirkburton
#StainedGlassSunday
#MomentoMoriMonday
Christopher Whall’s Art Deco masterpiece.
With no known grave at Gallipoli, this window commemorates 2nd Lt. John Wilfred Carter—a Kirkburton-born linguist and teacher killed in 1915, aged just 23. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial.
#StainedGlassSunday
#MomentoMoriMonday
Christopher Whall’s Art Deco masterpiece.
With no known grave at Gallipoli, this window commemorates 2nd Lt. John Wilfred Carter—a Kirkburton-born linguist and teacher killed in 1915, aged just 23. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial.
All Hallows, Kirkburton
#MomentoMoriMonday
James Binns Armitage, monumental sculptor commemorated in stained glass.
www.findagrave.com/memorial/231...
#MomentoMoriMonday
James Binns Armitage, monumental sculptor commemorated in stained glass.
www.findagrave.com/memorial/231...
November 1, 2026 at 6:07 PM
All Hallows, Kirkburton
#MomentoMoriMonday
James Binns Armitage, monumental sculptor commemorated in stained glass.
www.findagrave.com/memorial/231...
#MomentoMoriMonday
James Binns Armitage, monumental sculptor commemorated in stained glass.
www.findagrave.com/memorial/231...
All Hallows, Kirkburton
#StainedGlassSunday
#MomentoMoriMonday
Memorial to textile mill owners, Jonas and Sarah Kenyon.
The first textile mill in Kirkburton was built in Dogley in 1787 using waterpower to prepare wool for spinning and for fulling the finished cloth.
#StainedGlassSunday
#MomentoMoriMonday
Memorial to textile mill owners, Jonas and Sarah Kenyon.
The first textile mill in Kirkburton was built in Dogley in 1787 using waterpower to prepare wool for spinning and for fulling the finished cloth.
November 1, 2026 at 6:00 PM
All Hallows, Kirkburton
#StainedGlassSunday
#MomentoMoriMonday
Memorial to textile mill owners, Jonas and Sarah Kenyon.
The first textile mill in Kirkburton was built in Dogley in 1787 using waterpower to prepare wool for spinning and for fulling the finished cloth.
#StainedGlassSunday
#MomentoMoriMonday
Memorial to textile mill owners, Jonas and Sarah Kenyon.
The first textile mill in Kirkburton was built in Dogley in 1787 using waterpower to prepare wool for spinning and for fulling the finished cloth.
September 7, 2026 at 7:59 AM
A skeleton with two wine jugs stares out from a 1st c AD mosaic from Pompeii, symbolising the fleeting nature of pleasures & inevitability of death.
Carpe diem...
(MANN, my 📷 Sept 24)
#ancientbluesky🏺#mosaicmonday #momentomorimonday #archaeology
Carpe diem...
(MANN, my 📷 Sept 24)
#ancientbluesky🏺#mosaicmonday #momentomorimonday #archaeology
April 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
A skeleton with two wine jugs stares out from a 1st c AD mosaic from Pompeii, symbolising the fleeting nature of pleasures & inevitability of death.
Carpe diem...
(MANN, my 📷 Sept 24)
#ancientbluesky🏺#mosaicmonday #momentomorimonday #archaeology
Carpe diem...
(MANN, my 📷 Sept 24)
#ancientbluesky🏺#mosaicmonday #momentomorimonday #archaeology
Winchester Cathedral.
The disturbingly realistic cadaver effigy of Richard Fox, (d1528). a prominent politician and diplomat, under Henry VII. He was Bishop of Winchester from 1501 to 1528 .
#momentomorimonday #tudor
The disturbingly realistic cadaver effigy of Richard Fox, (d1528). a prominent politician and diplomat, under Henry VII. He was Bishop of Winchester from 1501 to 1528 .
#momentomorimonday #tudor
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Winchester Cathedral.
The disturbingly realistic cadaver effigy of Richard Fox, (d1528). a prominent politician and diplomat, under Henry VII. He was Bishop of Winchester from 1501 to 1528 .
#momentomorimonday #tudor
The disturbingly realistic cadaver effigy of Richard Fox, (d1528). a prominent politician and diplomat, under Henry VII. He was Bishop of Winchester from 1501 to 1528 .
#momentomorimonday #tudor
For #MomentoMoriMonday:
Stone marker and grave (!) warning at St Mary, Nonington, Kent.
Taken in 2010, now sadly missing.
Stone marker and grave (!) warning at St Mary, Nonington, Kent.
Taken in 2010, now sadly missing.
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
For #MomentoMoriMonday:
Stone marker and grave (!) warning at St Mary, Nonington, Kent.
Taken in 2010, now sadly missing.
Stone marker and grave (!) warning at St Mary, Nonington, Kent.
Taken in 2010, now sadly missing.
Tomb of John Woods, "Gent. of this parish", died 1703, St Peter's Church, Westleton, #Suffolk. It features a skull 💀 with an hour glass resting on it, crossed bones , 🦴 and possibly a rib cage 🩻. #momentomorimonday
June 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Tomb of John Woods, "Gent. of this parish", died 1703, St Peter's Church, Westleton, #Suffolk. It features a skull 💀 with an hour glass resting on it, crossed bones , 🦴 and possibly a rib cage 🩻. #momentomorimonday
Cherub clutching a skull 💀 on the tomb of 🪦 Ricardus Cumberland", died 1718, Peterborough Cathedral, East Anglia. #MomentoMoriMonday
March 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Cherub clutching a skull 💀 on the tomb of 🪦 Ricardus Cumberland", died 1718, Peterborough Cathedral, East Anglia. #MomentoMoriMonday
July 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Castle Frome, Herefordshire. Monument of William and Margery Unett, 17th century, Cavalier clothes for him, flowing hair for both. #momentomorimonday
December 23, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Castle Frome, Herefordshire. Monument of William and Margery Unett, 17th century, Cavalier clothes for him, flowing hair for both. #momentomorimonday
Just visible "Momento Mori" 💀 skull on a decommissioned tombstone in the former burial ground in Dovehouse Green, Kings Road, Chelsea. #MomentoMoriMonday
May 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Just visible "Momento Mori" 💀 skull on a decommissioned tombstone in the former burial ground in Dovehouse Green, Kings Road, Chelsea. #MomentoMoriMonday
January 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Not many skulls and crossbones on gravestones in Newent churchyard, but I noticed this one, appropriately close the ground, for Jonathon Tayler who died in 1755. #momentomorimonday
December 30, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Not many skulls and crossbones on gravestones in Newent churchyard, but I noticed this one, appropriately close the ground, for Jonathon Tayler who died in 1755. #momentomorimonday
Restored #earlymodern bling for #momentomoriMonday & #memorialsMonday for Andrew Downes, one of the translators of the King James Bible. Regius Prof. of Greek at Cambridge and one of six who revised the translation for publication. Died, aged 77, in 1627. Buried at St Peter's, Coton
September 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Restored #earlymodern bling for #momentomoriMonday & #memorialsMonday for Andrew Downes, one of the translators of the King James Bible. Regius Prof. of Greek at Cambridge and one of six who revised the translation for publication. Died, aged 77, in 1627. Buried at St Peter's, Coton
Let's just smash up these 19th century grave stones and use them to build this road side wall. 😕
Whatever happened to respect for the dead.
#MomentoMoriMonday
Tameside, Greater Manchester.
Whatever happened to respect for the dead.
#MomentoMoriMonday
Tameside, Greater Manchester.
October 2, 2023 at 9:36 PM
Let's just smash up these 19th century grave stones and use them to build this road side wall. 😕
Whatever happened to respect for the dead.
#MomentoMoriMonday
Tameside, Greater Manchester.
Whatever happened to respect for the dead.
#MomentoMoriMonday
Tameside, Greater Manchester.
Set above the city Glasgow Necropolis has to be one of the spookiest and atmospheric graveyards in the UK? #momentomoriMonday
February 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Set above the city Glasgow Necropolis has to be one of the spookiest and atmospheric graveyards in the UK? #momentomoriMonday
February 23, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Airey Neave —soldier, Colditz escapee & local MP— reputedly helped prevent the bombing of Chartres Cathedral in 1944, preserving its medieval stained glass. Fittingly, he’s remembered at St Margaret's Church, Hinton Waldrist in glass of medieval style.
#StainedGlassSunday #MomentoMoriMonday
#StainedGlassSunday #MomentoMoriMonday
February 22, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Airey Neave —soldier, Colditz escapee & local MP— reputedly helped prevent the bombing of Chartres Cathedral in 1944, preserving its medieval stained glass. Fittingly, he’s remembered at St Margaret's Church, Hinton Waldrist in glass of medieval style.
#StainedGlassSunday #MomentoMoriMonday
#StainedGlassSunday #MomentoMoriMonday
#MonumentsMonday #MomentoMoriMonday
When from the dust of death I rise,
To take my mansion in the skies,
This all my hope, this all my plea
That Jesus lived and died for me
When from the dust of death I rise,
To take my mansion in the skies,
This all my hope, this all my plea
That Jesus lived and died for me
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
#MonumentsMonday #MomentoMoriMonday
When from the dust of death I rise,
To take my mansion in the skies,
This all my hope, this all my plea
That Jesus lived and died for me
When from the dust of death I rise,
To take my mansion in the skies,
This all my hope, this all my plea
That Jesus lived and died for me