# saint_gildas_de_rhuys

Remarkable memorial, and, bottom right, ink and watercolour design in the archives ⁦⁩, by John Flaxman to Sarah Morley, who died after childbirth at sea in 1784. ⁦⁩

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2020-09-07

Children Abbey: Slab to princess Jeanne de Bretagne (1387 † 1388) daughter of Jean the 4th of Bretagne and Jeanne of Navarre She is featured as a handsome young lady, but she died 1 year old. (political and kinship reasons) (See J.Y Copy)

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2020-03-23

For#MonumentsMonday or whatever, the superb Elizabethan canopied tomb of Richard Herbert, Montgomery church. Figures of Vanity and Time in the spandrels of the arch. She does not seem to be plagued by guilt or regrets!

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2020-02-16

For the 17C Savage family alabaster tomb at St Mary’s, Elmley Castle, Worcs, is right up there. The details are remarkable, including the baby held in Lady Catherine’s arms.

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2020-01-27