List Of Monumental Masons

This is a list of monumental masons, also known as memorial masons, and gravestone carvers:

A

* Bartlett Adams (1776-1828). Popular gravestone carver of Portland, Maine in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
* Richard Adams (1784-1845). Popular gravestone carver who worked out of Portland, Bath, Brunswick, and Topsham, Maine in the early 19th century. Brother of Bartlett Adams.
* Thomas Adye (mason), English, active in early-to-mid-18th-century England
**Monument to William Mitchell (Huntingdonshire MP) (c.1703–1745) in St. Mary's Church (Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire).Nikolaus Pevsner. ''Cambridgeshire''. "The Buildings of England." Second Edition (London: Penguin Books, 1970), p.387.
**Monument to Sir John Cotton (d.1712) in St. Nicholas' Church (Landwade, Suffolk).
** Memorial to Hugo Raymond (d.1737) removed from the old "humble medieval village church" upon its replacement with the new St. George, Beckenham, Kent (1885–87) in the south aisle, built by architect W. Gibbs Bartleet of Beckenham.John Newman. ''West Kent and the Weald.'' The "Buildings of England" Series, First Edition, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and Judy Nairn, eds. (London: Penguin, 1969), p.141
*J. Annis, English, active in early-to-mid-18th-century England
** Memorial to John Styleman (d.1734) monument, "a large hanging one with cartouches of arms pinned to a pyramid, was erected after 1750" in St. Mary's Church, Bexley, Kent.
*John Wormald Appleyard, English, active 1851–1891.
** Many cemetery monuments
** Memorial to J.F. Longrigg, St Paul's, Shipley, West Yorkshire, 1890

B

* J. Bacon and S. Manning of London, (also Bacon Junior and S. Manning), English, active in early 18th-century England
**Monument to John Bones (d.1813) in St. Mary's Church (Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire).Nikolaus Pevsner. ''Cambridgeshire''. "The Buildings of England." Second Edition (London: Penguin Books, 1970), p.384.
**Memorial to James Antrobus Newton (d.1823), in St. Mary's Church, Stockport, Greater Manchester, depicting a kneeling female figure.
* John Bacon Jr. (of London, 1777–1859) (see above), English sculptor and monumental mason, active in early 19th-century England, son of John Bacon (1740–1799)
** Memorial to Thomas and Sophia Lambard, "a pair of large, exceedingly restrained tablets by John Bacon Jun., 1813." In St. Peter and St. Paul, Ash, Kent.
* Gershom Bartlett (1723-1798). Prominent New England grave carver active between 1748 and 1798 in Bolton, Connecticut, and Pompanoosuc, Vermont.

* Carlo Bergamini (1870–1934), Italian-New Zealander
* E. Bingham of Peterborough, English, active in early 18th-century Cambridgeshire.
**Monument in Rococo style to R. Lane (d.1732) and Mrs. Lane (d.1754) in St. Mary's Church (Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire).
*Blore, English monumental mason, active in late-18th-century Cambridgeshire (designed a tablet in the north transept of Ely Cathedral).
*Miles Brien (alias O'Brien) (fl. 1782–1806) of Rathduff,"exemplifying the later eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish Churchyard Sculpture tradition in County Wexford."
**Memorials in Ferns Cathedral graveyard.
* James Byrne (fl. 1775–1819) and Patrick Byrne (fl. 1795–1837) of Clone, Ireland "exemplifying the later eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish Churchyard Sculpture tradition in County Wexford."
**Memorials in Ferns Cathedral graveyard.
*Boehm, English monumental masons active in mid-19th-century Cambridgeshire.
**Monument to Mrs. Montagu (d.1871) in St. Margaret's Church (Newton, Cambridgeshire).Nikolaus Pevsner. ''Cambridgeshire''. "The Buildings of England." Second Edition (London: Penguin Books, 1970), p.443.
* Solon H. Borglum, sculptor and monumental mason active in 19th-century New York
** Charles Adolph Schieren (1842–1915) in Green-wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
* Charles Bottomley, English, active in mid-18th-century England. Designer of the Gregory Wale, Esq. (d.1739) Memorial, known as the Obelisk on Maggots Mount in Harston, Cambridgeshire.
*John William Bowden (active 1920s), monumental mason of Matlock, signed as "BOWDEN MATLOCK".
*Bushnell, English, active in mid-17th-century Cambridgeshire
**Monument to Richard Bennet (d.1658) and Sir Thomas Bennet (d.1667), two white, life-size standing figures against a black backcloth in St. Peter's Church (Babraham, Cambridgeshire).

C

* Charles Calverley, famed sculptor and monumental mason active in 19th-century New York
**Monument to Elias Howe Jr. (1819–1867), located at the intersection of Battle Avenue and Hemlock Avenue in Green-wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
*R. Chambers, English monumental mason active in mid-to-late-18th-century Kent.
** Memorial to Richard Savage (d.1772), tablet with branches at the sides by Chambers who signed it in English and Hebrew, located in St. Peter's Church, Boughton Monchelsea, Kent.
* Tom Church, Scottish, (Brechin, Scotland), presently active, designer of the Wallace Monument
*Sir Francis Chantrey, English sculptor and monumental mason active in early-to-mid-19th-century England.
** Memorial to Catherine Vansittart (d.1810), a "large hanging monument, this time with a profile medallion on a draped altar," attributed to Chantrey by style. It was removed from the old "humble medieval village church" upon its replacement with the new St. George, Beckenham, Kent (1885–87) in the south transept, built by architect W. Gibbs Bartleet of Beckenham.John Newman. ''West Kent and the Weald.'' The "Buildings of England" Series, First Edition, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and Judy Nairn, eds. (London: Penguin, 1969), p.142
**Monument to Samuel Knight (d.1829) in All Saints Church (Milton, Cambridgeshire).Nikolaus Pevsner. ''Cambridgeshire''. "The Buildings of England." Second Edition (London: Penguin Books, 1970), p.442.Nikolaus Pevsner. ''Cambridgeshire''. "The Buildings of England." Second Edition (London: Penguin Books, 1970), p.425.
*Sir Henry Cheere (1703 – 15 January 1781) was a renowned 18th-century English sculptor and monumental mason. He was "the first English-born sculptor to match the virtuosity of the continentals" and "formed his style on the small, crisp, cirvaceous shapes of the French sculptor oubiliac though his monuments never approached Roubiliac’s in ease and inventiveness. Much of his work is unsigned, as is his commonly considered c.1760 masterpiece at Shadoxhurst, Kent.
* F. W. Commons was a monumental mason, trained in Europe (there is some speculation this was from 1858 to 1860), who was commissioned to carve four allegorical figures, each 12 ft high, for £2,100 to crown the front of Parliament House, Melbourne, though it never eventuated due to the depression. He set up as a monumental mason at Ballarat in 1880. He was then advertising from Creswick Road, 'blue stone, granite and marble masonry, engraving, carving and sculpture’ as well as 'City and Garden sculpture’. Much of his work can be seen in the historic buildings and gardens of Ballarat. A catalog of his work can be seen in F.W. Commons monuments, Libraries Australia ID 8859827.

*Carl Conrads (1839–1920), German-born American sculptor at New England Granite Works, Hartford, Connecticut.
**'' The American Volunteer'' (1876) at Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, Maryland. The granite statue – 21 ft 6 in (6.55 m) tall; 44 ft 7 in (13.59 m) with base – was likely the largest sculpture in the United States prior to the Statue of Liberty.
**''Alexander Hamilton'' (1880), Central Park, New York City.
**Many Civil War monuments.
* G. Cooper of Canterbury, English monumental mason active in the mid-19th century in Kent.
** Memorial to Sir William Cosway Monument, a stone obelisk located quarter-mile west of St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Bilsington, Kent. Cosway was a Member of Parliament for Kent "who fell off a stage coach here in 1835, and was killed. G. Cooper of Canterbury fecit. Struck by lightning" in the 1960s and thereafter threatened with demolition.
* John Cramb & Son, English monumental masons active in the 1880s in Camden, London.
* Joshua Cushing of Norwich, English monumental mason active in early 19th-century England.
**Tablet to Charles Garneys d.1808 in Holy Trinity Church (Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire).

D

* H Daniel, (active 1870s) English monumental mason of London.
* John Dixon of London, English monumental mason active in mid-to-late-18th-century England.
**Wall-mounted obelisk memorial to Rev. Harry Trotter d.1766 in St. Botolph's Church (Graveley, Cambridgeshire).
*Durdles, the fictional monumental mason in Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

E

* Joseph Edwards (1814–1882), Welsh

F

* R B Farbridge (active 1890s), around South Shields, Tyne and Wear.
*John Flaxman, English monumental mason active in late-18th-century and early 19th-century England
**Coffin-shaped tablet of Captain Serocold (d.1794) in St Andrew's Church, Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire.
** Memorial to Frances Hoare (d.1800), a “Grecian tablet, notably severe by comparison with the earlier monuments. Mourning members of her family, contemporarily dressed, in relief on either side of inscription.” It was removed from the old “humble medieval village church” upon its replacement with the new St. George's Church, Beckenham, Kent (1885–87) in the north transept, built by architect W. Gibbs Bartleet of Beckenham.
**Monument to Sir Charles Cotton, Admiral of the White (d.1812).
**Monument to Mrs. E. Knight in All Saints Church (Milton, Cambridgeshire).
*John Franklin (d.1831), English, "monumental mason of local note whose tablets frequently appear in east Wiltshire and neighbourhood".
* John Frazee, carver active in mid-19th-century New York.
**Charlotte Canda (1828–1845) monument in Green-wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York (with carver Robert Launitz).

G

* E. Gaffin of London, English monumental mason of Regent Street, London active in the early 19th century
**White marble sarcophagus memorial of Thomas Quintin (d.1806) in St. George's Church (Hatley St. George, Cambridgeshire).
* T. & E. Gaffin of London (see above), English monumental masons of Regent Street, London active in the mid-19th century
**Memorial to Jemima Wilson (d.1865). "Still in the pre-Chatnrey tradition, with its female wreathing an urn with flowers. Signed by Gaffin, and poorly carved." It was removed from the old "humble medieval village church" upon its replacement with the new St. George's Church, Beckenham, Kent (1885–87), built by architect W. Gibbs Bartleet of Beckenham.
* Geddes, Shakespeare & Co., 208 Girod Street, New Orleans, Louisiana
**Sebastian Swoop Edifice (Mausoleum) in Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans.
*Eric Gill (1882–1940), English monumental mason
* Francis Grigs, English monumental mason active in the mid-17th-century England
** "Black and white marble tablet to Herbert Randolph, with Corinthian side pilasters, ostentatiously signed by Francis Grigs, Fecit Anno 1645." Located in All Saints Church, Biddenden, Kent.
* Robert Grumbold (d.1720), English, a mason with his own memorial in St Botolph's Church, Cambridge.

H

* Christopher Horsnaile, English, monumental masons active in early eighteenth-century England (see also Edward Stanton
**Monument to Bishop Fleetwood of Ely (d..1723) in north chancel aisle of Ely Cathedral.Nikolaus Pevsner. ''Cambridgeshire''. "The Buildings of England." Second Edition (London: Penguin Books, 1970), p.365.
*John Hickey, English monumental mason active in late-eighteenth-century England
**Memorial to Amy Burrell (d.1790), a “hanging monument, large but detailed with delightful delicacy,” removed from the old “humble medieval village church” upon its replacement with the new St. George's Church, Beckenham, Kent (1885–87) in the south transept, built by architect W. Gibbs Bartleet of Beckenham.
*"Hooper, sculptor," English, active in late-19th-century Devon.
**Wall-mounted memorial in Hatherleigh, Devon.
*Humphrey Hopper (active 1830s), English, active in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
**Memorial to the Rev. Charles Simeon d.1836 in Holy Trinity Church (Cambridge), "epitaph in Gothic forms."

J

*Tim Johnson of Carving and Restoration Team in Manassas, Virginia, American stone carver presently responsible for the CIA Memorial Wall