This morning we drove across to a village near Saffron Walden, to install a long case clock I have been repairing. On the way we stopped off a a village church and found these two brasses let into the floor. They are down in the guide book as a gentleman and lady of early 16th century date of whom nothing further is known because the details which should have been in the floor below their feet have been missing for some centuries. Seemed sad really but the surviving brasses (about two foot long) seemed such little works of art that I had to have a record of them. On to Angela's and we installed the clock movement whilst she prepared lunch. The clock went well, and the lunch went down well. On the way home we stopped off at our good friends' Sue and David, and had a pot of tea and some ginger cake with them. Very satisfying day out. Got to close now and make final preparations for Long Melford tomorrow. Goodnight all.
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It is sad that we don't know who they are, but they are, as you say, works of art.
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