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Richard Hakluyt's memorial
An example of a signed and dated maker's mark on a wall-mounted memorial to Mary Carpenter in Bristol Cathedral sculpted by James Havard Thomas of London

This is a list of monumental masons, also known as memorial masons, and gravestone carvers:

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Tombstone dated 1756 carved by Gershom Bartlett

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  • Charles Calverley, famed sculptor and monumental mason active in 19th-century New York
  • R. Chambers, English monumental mason active in mid-to-late-18th-century Kent.
  • Tom Church, Scottish, (Brechin, Scotland), presently active, designer of the Wallace Monument
  • Sir Francis Chantrey, English sculptor and monumental mason active in early-to-mid-19th-century England.
  • Sir Henry Cheere (1703 – 15 January 1781) was a renowned 18th-century English sculptor and monumental mason. He was "the first English-born sculptor to match the virtuosity of the continentals" and "formed his style on the small, crisp, cirvaceous shapes of the French sculptor [Roubiliac], though his monuments never approached Roubiliac's in ease and inventiveness. Much of his work is unsigned, as is his commonly considered c. 1760 masterpiece at Shadoxhurst, Kent.[25]
  • F. W. Commons was a monumental mason, trained in Europe (there is some speculation this was from 1858 to 1860), who was commissioned to carve four allegorical figures, each 12 ft high, for £2,100 to crown the front of Parliament House, Melbourne, though it never eventuated due to the depression. He set up as a monumental mason at Ballarat in 1880. He was then advertising from Creswick Road, "blue stone, granite and marble masonry, engraving, carving and sculpture" as well as "City and Garden sculpture". Much of his work can be seen in the historic buildings and gardens of Ballarat. A catalog of his work can be seen in F.W. Commons monuments, Libraries Australia ID 8859827.
The American Volunteer, 1876. (Note man standing on base.)

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  • Tim Johnson of Carving and Restoration Team in Manassas, Virginia, American stone carver presently responsible for the CIA Memorial Wall.[44]
  • Thomas Johnson Sr. (1689–1761) Prominent Gravestone carver of Cromwell, Connecticut, in the early to mid 18th century in Connecticut.
  • Thomas Johnson Jr. (1718–1774) Son of Johnson Sr. and a prominent gravestone carver of Cromwell, Connecticut, through much of the 18th century in Connecticut.
  • Thomas Johnson III. (1750–1789) Son of Johnson Jr. and a popular gravestone carver of Cromwell, Connecticut, in the later 18th century.
  • Joseph Johnson, prominent gravestone carver of Windsor, Connecticut from the late 1730s until the early 1770s. Brother of Thomas Johnson Sr.
  • John Johnson, prominent gravestone carver of Durham, Connecticut through the later 18th century and early 19th century. Not related to any of the Johnson carvers above.
  • N Johnson, English monumental mason active in the early 17th-century Cambridgeshire, the monument of Sir Giles Allington (d.1613) and Lady Allington in All Saints Church (Horseheath, Cambrdigeshire) is attributed to him.[45]

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  • T. Nichols, active in early 18th-century Cambridgeshire
  • Samuel Nixon (sculptor), English monumental masons active in mid-19th-century London.
  • Noble, English monumental masons active in mid-19th-century Cambridgeshire.
  • J. Nolan (fl. 1824–1835) of Ferns, "exemplifying the later eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish Churchyard Sculpture tradition in County Wexford."[13]
  • John Nost (mason), English monumental mason active in late-17th-century and early-18th-century England.
    • Memorial to Sir John Banks (d.1699) in St. Peter's Church, Aylesford, Kent, "a stupendous pile of marble, rising to the roof. Sir John, in a wig, cravat, and semi-Roman dress, stands in an elegant pose by an urn on a tall pedestal. On the other side his wife, robed as a Roman matron, leans pensively on the pedestal. Below, their son, Caleb, reclines on his elbow, in Roman armour and wig. Backcloth held by flying putti, side pilasters, wide arching cornice and, at the very top, a garlanded cartouche of arms. Flowery Latin inscription. Everything indeed that could set a suitable seal on the career of a scucessful [sic] nouveau riche." attributed to the sculptor John Nost on grounds of style.[55]

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Wall-mounted memorial by Reeves of Bath of Thomas Preston Esq. (d.1820) and wife Jane (d.1823), their daughters, and many subsequent entries. The tablet was created c. 1820 but entries were inscribed until 1848. It features the willow tree motif, and is in the City of London Church of St Magnus-the-Martyr, near London Bridge.

Cambridgeshire (with one tablet at St. Mary and St. John's Church (Hinxton, Cambridgeshire)).[62]

  • Sid Robinson (retired), English stonemason and craftsman active in the Norfolk Norwich area

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Scheemakers's Shakespeare memorial in Westminster Abbey
View of Albert Park looking north to the monument to Prince Albert in the distance

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Harold Vogel, American stone carver who created the first 31 stars.[77] of the CIA Memorial Wall and its inscription when the Wall was created in July 1974.[44]

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1862 advertisement for Woodcock & Meacham, Architects

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