The monument was placed in Highgate Cemetery by a small band of workmen whom Trefusis found out of employment. View in context "And he rests now, near his companions, in the coral cemetery?" View in context Philip, looking across the cemetery crowded on all sides with monuments, some poor...
Just one of many epitaphs you can find on the Cecil family monument. Then there are the pair of skulls on either side of the monument, with the inscriptions “Death is Life” (on the left) and “Death to me is gain” (on the right). “Death to me is gain.” In the 19th centur...
And there he was. I stood in front of a tall, vine-encrusted stone monument that proclaimed the death of the town postmaster. It was surrounded by a low rail fence and littered with a sad half-dozen beer cans from the previous night’s haunted revelry. I swept the cans away and climbe...
The cemetery itself was closed by royal decree in 1781. The area became a designated historical monument in 1862. Today the lovely, macabre courtyard remains as the only medieval ossuary still in existence in a European city center. Tour groups in every possible language often disrupt the atrium...
The Humphrey monument just outside the Mount Pleasant Mausoleum is instantly recognizable to anyone who travels past the Humphrey Funeral Home on Bayview just outside Mount Pleasant Cemetery. The Humphrey monument is just a few steps away from the Weston monument previously featured in this space, ...
only a wooden mausoleum was constructed over him on Red Square. The intent was to bury him in a suitable tomb, but the embalming worked better than expected and it became clear that the Great Leader was going to stick around for a while. Stalin demanded that a permanent monument be built...