This does not seem to have reached the List -----Original Message----- From: JIM NORTH Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:25 PM Subject: [ENG-SOM] Few: Monkton Combe For those who are interested in this tomb inscription. Peter Bossom has forwarded me 4 photos of the inscription which includes an interesting relevant resume history and variant translations. Please contact me on the attached email address for a copy. Jim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Harry Tadd Sent: 03 April 2011 02:00 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] Fw: Monkton Combe Is it possible that the church verger might know a local historian who would have more information on the Bassetts and Bassett House ( [email protected] ) Wouldn't hurt to e-mail him. Bath City records office might also help although I don't know their address someone local on this list should be able to help. Harry -----Original Message----- From: Josephine Jeremiah Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 10:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] Fw: Monkton Combe On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:35:07 +0100, Harry Tadd <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you know what information was given on the memorial. Does it still > exist. > The church was rebuilt in the early 1800s. According to Rev. John Collinson in The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset (1791), this ancient tomb in the church at Monkton Combe was against the north wall of the chancel. I say 'was' as the church has been rebuilt several times since then. The Latin inscription and English translation of the words on the monument can be seen in 'Brut y tywysogian' on the following web page at 115: http://www.archive.org/stream/brutytywysogiong00cararich/brutytywysogiong00c ararich_djvu.txt As Nikolaus Pevsner, in The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol (1973), noted that the church at Monkton Combe was built in 1865 by C.E. Giles, but didn't mention the ancient tomb, this indicated to me that the tomb itself is no longer there. Looking at the information about the church of St. Michael and All Angels on the following web page http://www.monktoncombe.com/poap/names/page13.htm it appears that the memorial to Katherine Bassett, which was once part of a large Tudor tomb, is now in the west wall of the south aisle. -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message