General Notes

Brass of Joan Quartermain C1420 Thame Churce  Oxfordshire
Height in inches: 14.5 Width in inches: 7.5
Joan was the wife of Thomas Quartermain, the son of Thomas and Katherine Quartermain, rich landowners in North Weston, near Thame. The original memorial is one of four bracket brasses to be found in Thame Church. It shows Joan in widow's dress together with her husband (unfortunately only the upper half of his effigy remains) and her husband's parents. It is probable that she commissioned these four brasses after the death of her husband in 1396 which would account for Katheraine Quartermain being shown wearing the fashionable dress of the early 15th Century, when she actually lived in the mid 14th Century.