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Papers of the Rev. Henry Eardley Field on monumental brasses

Reference code
FIE
Title
Papers of the Rev. Henry Eardley Field on monumental brasses
Date
19th century - c 1950
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and format
Sixteen volumes.
Folio and quarto.
Cloth binding, mostly beige (XI black, spine repaired).
Scope and content
Notes and descriptions of monumental brasses by the Rev. Henry Eardley Field (1858-1955); prefaces dated 1931-50, but compiled earlier.

Sixteen volumes arranged by county. Contents include some reproductions of brasses and printed extracts. Dated prefaces for each county giving sources and comments. Indexes of brasses under parishes for each county; indexes of arms in Vols. I and XIV.

The compiler published, with John P. Briscoe, Monumental Brasses of Nottinghamshire (1904). Obituary in The Times (21 Oct.1955).
Creator
Field, Henry Eardley (1858-1955), clergyman and antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
MS 875
SAL/MS/875
Archival history
The collection was presented by the compiler to the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society and transferred to SA in 1982 and 1990.
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