Table of Contents

What Can We Learn From Brasses? /Origins and Manufacture /The Organisation of the Industry and Costs /Scale of Production and Losses /The Commemorated /Function and Design /Reproducing Brasses /Further Reading /Places to Visit /Index

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A concise guide to the history, manufacture, and preservation of monumental brasses

About the Author

Sally Badham’s passion for church monuments, especially brasses, developed from taking up brass-rubbing as a hobby while at school. She is a leading authority on monuments, having lectured widely and published several books and over eighty articles. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and an active member of the Monumental Brass Society and the Church Monuments Society. She has also established a website on brasses for the MBS. Martin Stuchfield is co-author of the County Series established in 1992 to publish a comprehensively illustrated list of brasses, indents and lost brasses in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a Vice-President of the Monumental Brass Society having served as Hon Secretary from 1994-2007 and is the Society’s Conservation Officer and is a consultant on monumental brasses to the Chelmsford, Norwich and St Edmundsbury & Ipswich Diocesan Advisory Committees.