Bream (tomb art)

Bream by Simon Felbrigg and his wife Margaret von Teschen, St Margaret's Church, Felbrigg , Norfolk

A bream is a special form of English tomb art. Bream are engraved brass plates used as grave tablets that were introduced from Holland at the end of the 13th century . The oldest preserved bream from 1231 is in Germany in the St. Andreas Church in Verden . The oldest preserved bream in England is in Stoke d'Abernon . It dates from 1277 and is the grave slab for Sir John d'Abernon. The largest number of bream in England contains the church of St Mary Magdalene in Chatham . There are 18 breams that were worked between 1320 and 1529.

literature

• James Mann: Monumental Brasses . Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, MCMLVII ( K 75 )
• Peter Sager : South England - from Kent to Cornwall , 5th edition, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3770107446
• Herbert Macklin: Monumental Brasses . George Allen & Unwin, London, 1966, 7th revised edition (rev.Charles Oman, 1953), 196 pages

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