Simon KnottAn unusual memorial to John Wareing Bardsley, 59th Bishop of Carlisle, in the Cathedral. It's by the sculptor Andrea Carlo Lucchesi, 1906. 'A strange bronze tablet, as if cut out in leather', thought @YalePevsner.
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2/3 Harvey Goodwin, 58th Bishop of Carlisle, by Hamo Thorneycroft, 1894. When I was a paper boy half a century ago Harvey Goodwin Avenue in Cambridge, where he's remembered for the Industrial School he founded, was on my round. And here he is in a far northern city.
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3/3 Dorothy Heysham and Dorothea Heysham Milne, her niece perhaps, who died in 1837 and 1828 respectively. Another memorial in Carlisle Cathedral.
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2/3 A small, sweet memorial of 1757 to 23 year old Catherine Senhouse, tucked away in another corner of Carlisle Cathedral. The Senhouse family were of some long local significance. One of their number had been one of the last pre-Reformation priors here.
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Elizabeth Dunbar. She was the daughter of the sculptor David Dunbar who made a tender image of her for her memorial in Carlisle Cathedral when she died in 1821.
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'Stay passenger, read; here interred doth ly
A witness 'gainst poor Scotland's perjury.
Whose head once fix'd up on the bridge-port stood
Proclaiming vengeance for his guiltless blood'
An inscription to the covenanter William Welsh, in Old St Michael's kirkyard, Dumfries. 1/2
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Elizabeth Garnett, 1921, 'the Navvies Friend', with a little arrangement of tools around a book at the top. Her memorial in the north aisle at Ripon Cathedral, North Yorkshire.
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The Dunfermline dead. A cluster of 18th and 19th Century headstones in Dunfermline parish kirkyard, Fife. Meanwhile, over the wall...
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