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List of monumental masons

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

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  • Charles Calverley, famed sculptor and monumental mason active in 19th-century New York
  • Monument to Elias Howe Jr. (1819–1867), located at the intersection of Battle Avenue and Hemlock Avenue in Green-wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
  • R. Chambers, English monumental mason active in mid-to-late-18th-century Kent.
  • Memorial to Richard Savage (d.1772), tablet with branches at the sides by Chambers who signed it in English and Hebrew, located in St. Peter's Church, Boughton Monchelsea, 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.
  • Memorial to Catherine Vansittart (d.1810), a "large hanging monument, this time with a profile medallion on a draped altar," attributed to Chantrey by style. It was removed from the old "humble medieval village church" upon its replacement with the new St. George, Beckenham, Kent (1885–1887) in the south transept, built by architect W. Gibbs Bartleet of Beckenham.
  • Monument to Samuel Knight (d.1829) in All Saints Church (Milton, Cambridgeshire).
  • 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 masterpiece at Shadoxhurst, Kent.
  • 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.

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  • Tim Johnson of Carving and Restoration Team in Manassas, Virginia, American stone carver presently responsible for the CIA Memorial Wall.
  • 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, Cambridgeshire) is attributed to him.

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  • T. Nichols, active in early 18th-century Cambridgeshire
  • Recumbent effigy with praying hands monument to Canon Selwyn (d.1875) of Selwyn College, Cambridge and the Selwyn Divinity School, Cambridge in south chancel aisle of Ely Cathedral.
  • Samuel Nixon (sculptor), English monumental masons active in mid-19th-century London.
  • "Martha Hatch, daughter of Henry Emlyn of Windsor" (d.1838) first erected in St. Matthew's Church, Friday Street, City of London, and removed 1883 to St. Vedast-alias-Foster, London, when St. Matthew's was demolished in 1885.
  • Noble, English monumental masons active in mid-19th-century Cambridgeshire.
  • Monument to Christopher Pemberton (d.1870) in St. Margaret's Church (Newton, South Cambridgeshire).
  • J. Nolan (fl. 1824–1835) of Ferns, "exemplifying the later eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish Churchyard Sculpture tradition in County Wexford."
  • Memorials in Ferns Cathedral graveyard.
  • 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 nouveau riche." attributed to the sculptor John Nost on grounds of style.

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

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

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

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