Angels on Memorials
Contents
- War memorials
- War memorials, Angel of Victory
- War memorials, Angel of Peace and caring angel
- Grave memorials,
- Large grave memorials,
- Female mourners
- Details: Heads
- grave memorial angels of the bas-relief type
- Cherubs, children and other small grave memorials, often for children
- Statuettes of the Madonna (Our Lady of Lourdes
- Memorials inside churches
- Other memorials and architectural decoration
Female mourners
These are similar to angels, but wingless.
The first occupant died in 1904. Perhaps he made a special request for a pretty girl to watch over him! She has no wings, but she looks angelic.
by Humphrey Bolton
William Smith was a mill-owner and philanthropist. The first burial was of his wife. The statue is of a woman rather than an angel, and I have read that the finger pointing upwards is not an order (a cricket umpire signalling that a batsman is out comes to mind!), but symbolizes the hope of heaven.
by Humphrey Bolton
Unfortunately she is disfigured by a white mark on her face, presumably deposited by a bird.
by Humphrey Bolton
The grave is that of a boy who died in 1868 aged six, and his mother. A long time ago but someone cares enough to bring flowers.
by Humphrey Bolton
Elizabeth West died in 1876. The mourner has lost a hand, but I have seen missing hands so often on memorial statues that I wonder whether they are carved like that, like the broken column motif. Afterwards I regretted not thinking to wipe off all the cobwebs!
by Humphrey Bolton
This is in a strip of woodland that seems to have been the first additional graveyard used when the churchyard became full.
by Humphrey Bolton
The rough-hewn cross is enormous, and the mourner is being tortured by being pinned to the cross.
by Humphrey Bolton
Someone has given her a little posy. The memorial is dated 1929.
by Humphrey Bolton
A nice example of the classic design - arm aloft and book motifs with a sad face; sometimes with angel's wings, but I expect that they would have been expensive!
by Humphrey Bolton
With the usual arm pointed skywards and book in the left hand. To the right is one of the popular but boring draped urns.
by Humphrey Bolton
She is looking at the bust of a man's head, presumably a sculpture of the deceased man. She has an arm missing. I couldn't avoid that annoying shadow on her nose.
by Humphrey Bolton
The mourner is on a memorial monument for John Pyrah, JP, 1853-1907.
by Humphrey Bolton
Details: Heads
Closer view of the praying angel on the memorial at St Mary East Ilsley SU4980 : Praying Angel
by Bill Nicholls
This is the angel shown in SE1730 : Battered angel in Bowling Cemetery, Bradford. She either has an odd hairstyle or is wearing an equally odd hat. Perhaps a chunk of the hair broke off, and the sculptor smoothed the forehead and hoped nobody would notice. Seen from this angle, it seems that the sculptor has captured the bored look that the model no doubt had.
by Humphrey Bolton
She is patiently watching over Louisa Hurley, who died in 1915.
by Humphrey Bolton
She has come prepared, with something to read.
by Humphrey Bolton
She is standing in front of a rough-hewn cross.
by Humphrey Bolton
This is the head of the mourner shown in SE2237 : Mourner statue, Horsforth Cemetery. I have noticed that many of these memorial statues have their hair parted in the middle.
by Humphrey Bolton
This a zoomed-in view of the head of the mourner shown in SE1317 : Mourner in Edgerton Cemetery, Huddersfield.
by Humphrey Bolton
grave memorial angels of the bas-relief type
Slate and stone gravestones, part of the Listed group seen here Link
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The left hand stone is of the Belvoir Angel type and commemorates James Sketh, d.1717, at an unspecified age.
The right stone has a more cryptic inscription. It reads ' M P DO[ughter] OF JOHN P WHO DIED THE 8 OF AV[gust] 1663'
.The left hand stone is of the Belvoir Angel type and commemorates James Sketh, d.1717, at an unspecified age.
The right stone has a more cryptic inscription. It reads ' M P DO[ughter] OF JOHN P WHO DIED THE 8 OF AV[gust] 1663'
by Alan Murray-Rust
Shared Descriptions
This is one of two angels depicted on the memorial for Esther, eldest daughter of Henry Ritchie Cooper of Ballindalloch.
by Lairich Rig
Shared Description
Carved in stone, a pair of kneeling angels holding a wreath.
by Andrew Tryon
Another of my favourite memorials is this angel on a plinth with the huge wings at Morn Hill Cemetery
by Bill Nicholls
This angel has fallen asleep - not surprising!
by Humphrey Bolton
This is typical of several I have seen in cemeteries. I thought they were cast from a durable cement, but an online catalogue states that they are carved from granite and cost thousands of pounds, including the black headstone. Presumably there is a pattern book to choose from, but they all seem to be individual.
by Humphrey Bolton
Shared Description
This is one of several in the south-western part of the cemetery.
by Humphrey Bolton
Shared Description
Shared Description
Dated 1908, a memorial for a seven-year-old girl. Rather different from SE1214 : A little fairy in Lockwood Cemetery.
by Humphrey Bolton
Cherubs, children and other small grave memorials, often for children
A curious little effigy to find at the foot of a lamppost along a rural part of the A38. But a little examination of the scene reveals a plaque on a wall nearby: it is in memoriam to a truck driver who lost control of his vehicle and crashed fatally in October, 2019.
by Neil Owen
Two cherubs also, one playing a stringed instrument.
by Humphrey Bolton
An angel memorial marks the grave of a young lady who died in 1936 and is buried in the north side churchyard of All Saints, Chilton.
by Bill Nicholls
Has to be one of my favourite memorials I came across at Morn Hill cemetery, the sad thing is it marks the grave of a child
by Bill Nicholls
The gravestones at the church have been moved and most have been set against the churchyard boundary wall but a few remain in the churchyard, including this memorial to a 6 year old who died in 1904
by Eirian Evans
A strange statue of a mourner.
by Humphrey Bolton
I had given up taking photographs of these relatively modern small angels, but she asked me so nicely that I couldn't refuse.
by Humphrey Bolton
I think that these small angels are mostly supplied by garden centres rather than monumental masons, especially when they have a smile like the following one, and are probably made from cast stone.
This little smiling girl makes a change from the unhappy mourners.
by Humphrey Bolton
Statuettes of the Madonna (Our Lady of Lourdes
Also other praying women
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