Brass to Ralph Hamsterley () at the Church of St Andrew, Oddington, Oxfordshire

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Monuments which depict the deceased as a skeleton were intended to be reminders of death, to warn all the passers-by of their own mortality.

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Size: 2912px × 4368px
Location: Oddington, Oxfordshire, UK
Photo credit: © C B Newham / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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