ID: 700009116 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009116	Record Type: Movable Work

Thornton Brass (brass (memorial); unknown Flemish artist; probably 1449; Newcastle upon Tyne (Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, Eng...)

Note: Large brass memorial to 15th-century merchant Roger Thornton and his wife, Agnes, and 14 children; it is fixed vertically behind the altar of the St. Nicholas Cathedral. Formerly covered the Thorntons' grave in nearby All Saints' Church. A horizontal replica of the brass, for the purpose of tourists' making rubbings, is located near the north door of St. Nicholas Cathedral.

Titles:

Thornton Brass (preferred,C,U,PO,English-P,U,U)

Tomb Brass of Roger Thornton (1429) and his wife Agnes (1411) (C,U,FT,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

brass (memorial) [300184647] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, sculpture (visual works), <sculpture by function>, funerary sculpture)

Classifications:

metalworks (preferred)

Creation Date: probably 1449

Creator Display:

unknown Flemish artist [preferred]

sculptor unknown Flemish (Flemish cultural designation) [500125233]

Locations:

Current: Newcastle upon Tyne [7012026] Newcastle upon Tyne unitary authority (urban district), Tyne and Wear (county), England (country), United Kingdom (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: brass

	brass (alloy) [300010946]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by composition or origin>, nonferrous metal, <copper and copper alloy>, copper alloy)

Dimensions: unavailable

Cultures:

English (preferred)

General Subject:

funerary (preferred)

interior architecture

Specific Subjects:

	Agnes Thornton (English martron, died 1411) [500450283]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Roger Thornton (English merchant, died 1429) [500450282]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

Related Works:

	former architectural context was .... All Saints' Church [700009422]
	..........church (building); unknown English architects; current structure: 18th centur...; Newcastle upon Tyne (Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, Eng...

	architectural context is .... Saint Nicholas Cathedral [700009421]
	..........cathedral (building); unknown English architects; current church completed ca. 1...; Newcastle upon Tyne (Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, Eng...

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: carvings and sculptures

Sources and Contributors:
Thornton Brass	........ [VP]
	........ Boyle, Vestiges of Old Newcastle (1890) 285
Tomb Brass of Roger Thornton (1429) and his wife Agnes (1411)	........ [VP]
	........ Boyle, Vestiges of Old Newcastle (1890)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Boyle, Vestiges of Old Newcastle (1890) 285 ff.