Thomas Preston monument at St Magnus the Matyr, London

Reeves was the most prominent firm of monumental masons (tombstone carvers) in Bath, Somerset. They flourished from c. 1778 to the 1860s.The

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: Avon Group, "The Quick and the Dead: A Walk Round Some Bath Cemeteries" (15 September 1979) They often signed their work with "Reeves," or occasionally "Reeves & Son of Bath" when commissioned outside of Bath. One memorial is in the Grade I-listed City of London church St. Magnus the Martyr.

List of works

* 1786, Thomas Stokes, marble tablet in St Marys Church

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* 1799, Nathaniel Osborne, marble tablet in St Marys Church, Tormarton * 1807, Simon Wayte marble tablet in Church of St Mary,

Rodbourne Cheney The civil parish of Haydon Wick is a northern suburb of the town of Swindon, Wiltshire, in England. It had a population of 20,960 in the 2011 census. The parish includes the former hamlet of Haydon and the suburbs of Greenmeadow and Rodbourne C ...

, Swindon * 1820, Thomas Preston Esq. (d.1820) and wife Jane (d.1823), their daughters, and many subsequent entries until 1848. It features the

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motif, and is in the City of London Church of

St Magnus-the-Martyr St Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge, is a Church of England church and parish within the City of London. The church, which is located in Lower Thames Street near The Monument to the Great Fire of London, is part of the Diocese of London and unde ...

. * 1841, George Whittington marble tablet in Holy Trinity Church,

Cold Ashton Cold Ashton is a village in South Gloucestershire, England. It is located north of Bath, near the junction between the A46 and A420 roads. The village church has a 14th-century tower and the rest of the church was rebuilt in the 16th century ...

*c.1847, Benjamin Plim Bellamy Monument in Bath Abbey Cemetery *c.1847, Samuel Maxwell Hinds Memorial in Bath Abbey Cemetery *c.1847, Joseph Chaning Pearce Memorial in Bath Abbey Cemetery * 1851, William Bevan Gwyn monument in Church of St Cain,

Llangain Llangain is a village and community in Carmarthenshire, in the south-west of Wales. Located to the west of the River Towy, and south of the town of Carmarthen, the community contains three standing stones, and two chambered tombs as well as the ...

Contemporary Monumental Masons in Bath

* Rogers of Bath *Tucker, Mason *Treasure, Mason *White

References

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