Suffolk Gravestones
Our Free Lectures • 1h 16m
Local historian, Robert Halliday, a former employee of the Churches Conservation Trust, has a long standing interest in the churches of his home county of Suffolk. In 2003 he realised that, while many studies of Suffolk churches have been published, none of these had paid any great attention to the gravestones that could be found in churchyards. This set him on a quest to explore Suffolk churchyards to discover gravestones to famous people, and to study the art and symbolism of gravestones, and to see what unusual or eccentric churchyard monuments there might be dotted around the county. In his talk Robert shows some of his more interesting discoveries, and shares the unusual stories behind some of these often overlooked monuments that can be found in town and country churchyard.
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