Sentence examples for memorial tablet from inspiring English sources

It was a memorial tablet, erected for political martyrs.

Leaving his wife to comfort her sister, he visits the church of Llanyspytty, where he becomes intrigued by a memorial tablet to Millichamp Howel - Artist and Benefactor - 1866-1941.

He was buried at Edgbaston Old Church in Edgbaston, Birmingham, where his memorial tablet is marked by the staff and snake of Asclepius, the Greco-Roman god of medicine, and sprigs of Digitalis and Witheringia.

Its novel refinements are evident in the show in a set of funerary dishes, replete with an inscribed memorial tablet, covered with feathery white crosshatch patterns stamped on a gray-brown background.

Under the 8th dynasty of Babylon, however, King Nabu-apla-iddina (c. 880) rebuilt Sippar's great Temple of Shamash and recorded that while digging in the ruins he found the ancient image of the god, and he depicted himself and Shamash on a stone memorial tablet.

Now an Anglican church, there are signs of Cromwellian vandalism, such as angels' faces smashed by the iconoclastic Roundhead soldiers, and, intriguingly, a memorial tablet to a Galwegian Jane Eyre – local legend has it she was the inspiration for Charlotte Brontë's heroine.

The north transept is lined with memorial tablets for victims of the Boer and First World Wars, especially at Gallipoli.

My Funny Valentine Santoss's Fragments of Love Songs, drawings that look like gravestones or memorial tablets, seem engraved with lyrics from love songs.

Inside the temple was a meditation hall in which the memorial tablets for the parish were kept, each containing a scroll on which were written the names of that family's ancestors, some dating to the seventeenth century.

At first glance I assumed the concrete slabs were memorial tablets to the 10,000 citizens who disappeared, but they were, in fact, designed to obscure the towering synagogue partly hidden behind them.

The rest were buried in cemeteries around the world maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission — places like the Cemetery of the Pacific, where sweeping vistas draw millions of visitors, and memorial tablets record the names of "comrades in arms whose earthly resting place is known only to God".