IN SEARCH OF

GRAVESTONES

OLD AND CURIOUS.

With One Hundred and Two Illustrations

BY

W. T. VINCENT,

PRESIDENT OF THE WOOLWICH DISTRICT ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY;

AUTHOR OF "THE RECORDS OF THE WOOLWICH DISTRICT,"

ETC., ETC.

LONDON:

MITCHELL & HUGHES, 140, WARDOUR STREET.

1896.

IN SEARCH OF

GRAVESTONES

OLD AND CURIOUS.

Frontispiece.

AN EARLY EXAMPLE AT HIGHAM. (Page 11.)

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

1. OLD GRAVESTONES — 1
2. THE EVOLUTION OF GRAVESTONES — 9
3. ARTISTIC GRAVESTONES — 20
4. PROFESSIONAL GRAVESTONES — 31
5. A TYPICAL TRAMP IN KENT — 35
6. MORE TYPICAL TRAMPS — 43
7. EARLIER GRAVESTONES — 49
8. REFORM AMONG THE GRAVESTONES — 57
9. PRESERVING THE GRAVESTONES — 62
10. OLD GRAVESTONES IN IRELAND — 78
11. OLD GRAVESTONES IN SCOTLAND — 84
12. OLD GRAVESTONES ABROAD — 91
13. VERY OLD GRAVESTONES — 97
14. THE REGULATION OF GRAVESTONES — 105

INDEX 111

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

EARL STANHOPE, F.S.A.,

LORD LIEUTENANT OF KENT,

PRESIDENT OF THE KENT ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY,

ETC.,

THIS COLLECTION OF

OLD AND CURIOUS GRAVESTONES

IS BY SPECIAL PERMISSION

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF GRAVESTONES.

AN EARLY EXAMPLE AT HIGHAM

1 NEWHAVEN

2 NEWHAVEN

3 WIDCOMBE

4 NEWHAVEN

5 LEWES

6 PLUMSTEAD

7 DARTFORD

8 DARTFORD

9 FRANKFORT

10 EAST WICKHAM

11 RIDLEY

12 HOO

13 ERITH

14 HIGH HALSTOW

15 FRINDSBURY

16 HIGHAM

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