Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1851

Burying in Church Walls

By C. R. M.

To the examples mentioned by N. of tombs in church walls, may be added the remarkable ones at Bottisham, Cambridgeshire. There are several of these in the south aisle, with arches *internally and externally*: the wall between resting on the coffin lid. They are, of course, coeval with the church, which is fine early Decorated. They are considered, I believe, to be memorials of the priors of Anglesey, a neighbouring religious house. They will, no doubt, be fully elucidated in the memoir of Bottisham and Anglesey, which is understood to be in preparation by members of the Cambridge Antiquarian S…

Topics: Church Architecture, Memorials, Antiquarian Studies

Locations: Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, Anglesey, Trumpington, Cambridge